Journal Chapter 11
Disclaimer: I don't own Gravity Falls, Harry Potter, or Attack on Titan
Talk-normal
Talk-3
"Talk"-3 talking or books
Warnings for 3's temper and language
A/N: Poll is now closed and 3 is now a girl
Little Dipper
It was quiet in the Twin's room. Dipper was sprawled on his bed and Mabel was curled up, 3 was dozing when a vision flashed onto its consciousness.
It showed Gideon Gleeful sitting in a dark room muttering to himself, "Zombie Attack? Never Works, they don't take the orders. Blood Rain? EW, mess up my suit, no thank you. Demon Caterpillars? DRAT!" He slammed a blurry book closed, but 3 felt a mixture of anger and agony not its own. "There must be a perfect way to exact vengeance on the Pines family. It's not enough to harm them; I need to take something from them. Something that'll give me ultimate power. Wait, of course!"
Gideon picks up a model of the Mystery Shack made out of Popsicle sticks. "It's perfect..." The vision rippled and 3 'woke' up. "What was that?"
That morning in the Mystery Shack, Dipper, 3, Mabel, and Stan were watching Duck-Tective! When the doorbell rings, Stan left for a bit, then came running back to the den, tore off the painting and took out a bag full of money.
"Aah...uh...which one of these is the trap door?" He yelled, touching the wall, looking for the switch, a well-dressed man came up and said, "Mister Pines. I'm from the Winning house Coupon Savers contest, and YOU ARE OUR BIIIIIIG WINNER!" A cameraman comes in along with two women holding a check for $10,000,000.
"Heh? My one and only dream, which was to possess money, has come true!"
"We're rich! I'm gonna get a butler!" Dipper said happily
"I'm gonna buy a talking horse!" Not possible, but this is way too coincidental from my vision last night.
"Just sign here for the money." The man said, holding out a contract.
"You bet!" He said signing his name, then Gideon comes through the check as the camera man and women leave.
"Ha! Stanford, you fool! You just signed over the Mystery Shack to lil' ol' me!" He taunted Stan just smirked, "Uh, might wanna take another look there!"
"'The shack is hereby signed over to...SUCK A LEMON LITTLE MAN'?!" Gideon screamed, angered as Stan laughed in his face.
"How dare you!" He screamed as the twins laughed and 3 growled how you dare try to steal the stack. This is just like the vision.
"I am not a threat to be taken lightly! Come here hun, I need your arms." Gideon told the man.
"I'll get you, Stanford Pines! I'LL GET YOU ALL!" Gideon glared as they walked backwards through the door.
Stan turned to the twins, "Wanna see what else is on TV?"
"Yeah, OK."
"My favorite part's the theme song."
Later the twins were playing chess while an introspective 3 watched silently.
"Little guy to black space nine!" Mabel called.
"It's a pawn, that's not your color, and stop stealing the tiny horses!" Dipper said.
"They like it better in here. Don't you babies?" She asked as she made neighing noises. Does she even know how to play chess? 3 thought, mindful of Soos in the room.
"And...Checkmate!" Dipper called. Great job.
"What? Boo!"
"O-oh! Dipper wins again!" He added another tally mark to the "Dipper" side of a notebook which keeps track of wins and losses.
Soos suddenly called, "Yo, Mabel? Can you pass me that brain in the jar? The lady one?"
"I got it." Dipper called
"Thanks, but Mabel's taller."
"What? No she's not. We're the same height. We've always been." Aren't you 2 fractural.
"Better check again, dude.
Dipper and Mabel line up to measure height.
"Yep, she's got exactly one millimeter on you!"
"What?!" Dipper cried in shock. Girls do grow faster than boys you know.
"Woah, 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!" Soos commented, once again Soos, you're not helping.
"Alpha-twin! Alpha-twin!" Mabel started chanting, way too excited by the mm.
"C'mon, guys, nobody even use millimeters. It only makes you taller than me in Canada."
"You know Dipper; I've always wanted a little brother. Who knew I already had one? Ha ha ha ha ha! Yeah!" You're 5 minutes older, don't push him so much!
Stan walked in rubbing his eyes, "I was awoken by the sound of mockery. Where is it? Show me the object of ridicule!"
Mabel pointed to Dipper, to 3's fury, "I'm taller than Dipper!"
"-by one millimeter!" Dipper defended.
"Hey, hey, don't get... short with your sister." Oh God not puns.
"Now Grunkle Stan, I hope you don't think little of him." Mabel joked, you're going too far!
"Ha ha! Ya! And, and uh... he's short!" Stan said as he and Mabel dissolved into laughter.
"Dude, maybe you should lay off a tiny bit." Soos tried to placate, but unwittingly made a pun at Dipper's expense.
"Ha! Tiny! Soos is in on it now!" Stan said as they continued to laugh. At least he's smarter then you put together 3 growled wildly as Dipper left in a huff. As they left they made a parting crack.
"SHORT-TERM MEMORY!"
"Ugh! Stupid Mabel! I'm not short!"
"I know you aren't, girls naturally grow faster than boys, by the time you two are 16 and you'll be towering over her." 3 said optimistically.
"Thanks 3, but why did she suddenly start ripping into me? I mean one mm isn't that big of a deal, right?"
"Dipper, you've known Mabel since you were born, if you can't understand her, I have a snowball's chance at it. And if it makes you feel better, you're taller than me."
He opened 3 and started looking through its pages, "There's gotta be some way to get taller. Let's see...'Legends of miniature buffalo and giant squirrels have led me to believe there are height altering properties hidden deep within the forest.'"
"Oh, I remember those! I remember Father using those on his supplies whenever he went adventuring."
"Good enough for me!" Dipper grabbed a bag and went to the forest. They traveled for a bit when 3 spoke up. "Hey Dipper, something has been bothering me for a while now."
"What's wrong?"
"Remember this morning when Gideon tried to steal the Shack? Well, the night before I had…a vision."
"Vision?"
"Yeah, I saw Gideon looking through a book I couldn't make out. He was saying some dangerous stuff; I think he might do something drastic in the future."
"You're right; we'd better watch our backs. But I wonder who sent you the vision?"
"No idea…" He was thinking deeply, what could be connected to 3 so that that would send 3 a vision? Besides what is 3, anyway? As far as he knew, no other books could think. Was 3 some sort of benevolent creature or an ordinary book that became magical from being exposed to the weirdness of Gravity Falls? He was so deep in thought that he tripped over a tree root and rolled off a hill.
"Are you alright!?"
"Yeah, I'm-" He looked down and notices tiny deer. "Whoa." A tiny eagle passed under his nose.
"This is weird."
"Is that mountain lion tiny or just far away in perspective?" The mountain lion growls and pounces. "PERSPECTIVE! PERSPECTIVE! AAAAAAH!" It passes by a purple ray of light and shrinks. The lion runs into his vest and ran around, Dipper laughed from being tickled. "It still hurts, but less!" He chuckled when the tiny lion bit his finger.
"I want a tiny lion."
He walked over giant crystals reflecting purple and blue light. A butterfly passed by the purple light and shrinks. It passes the blue and enlarges. "What the heck?" He cuts a crystal off with a Swiss army knife and returned to the shack.
Dipper found a flashlight and attached the crystal to the reflector. He pointed it to a chess piece, "Smaller, bigger." He pointed it too long and the piece smashes through the roof. "Too Big!"
"Yeah, Father had the same problem, but he used the sun."
They found Mabel chatting with Soos Dipper walks up to them and said, "Hey guys, notice anything different about me?" Dipper, they won't notice an extra mm.
"Holy hot sauce! You've grown an extra millimeter!" Doesn't count, I don't think Soos is human. 3 said, sullen.
"Wh-wh-what?" Mabel spluttered and checked heights.
"What can I say, sis? Growth spurt."
"Yeah, mine happened first. I'm gonna be taller in the end. It's science, Dipper." No its puberty.
"What? But we're the same height now."
"Alpha-twin! Alpha-twin!"
"Oh yeah? Something tells me I've got another growth spurt coming on right now." He stalked away.
"Don't get carried away"
"I won't." Dipper grows himself taller than Mabel kicks the door open.
"Give it up, Dipper! What happened?" Mabel gasped noticing his height.
"You now, puberty and stuff."
"It doesn't make any sense. Just a second ago you were-" She glanced at 3 sitting innocently on his bed. "WAIT A MINUTE! This is some kind of magicky thing. Isn't it? Was it a wizard or something? There's a wizard in this closet, isn't there? ISN'T THERE?" She accused, totally ignoring the giant pawn behind her.
"What? No!"
"You're telling me that there is not a wizard in this closet. You're telling me that if I open this door right now-"
"Fine! Open it!"
Mabel banged open the door to reveal nothing, "An invisible wizard! REALLY Dipper?"
"I'm sorry Mabel, you're invisible wizard is in another cupboard in another country." 3 couldn't resist that quip.
Mabel grabbed 3 and started to shake it. "What did he do!?"
"Calm down. One, it's no fun to just give you the answer; you can't get something for nothing. Two, if you're the so called 'Alpha-Twin' you'll catch up." 3 said loftily. At that moment 3 caught something on its awareness. "Isn't that Gideon being attacked by termites?"
The twins looked out the window to see Gideon's hair was being eaten by termites and they laughed at his expense.
Mabel still won't let the invisible wizard go, "Does he only respond to incantations? Excpecto wizzarium! Wizle! Wizar-"
"I believe the spell you're looking for is finite incantatem."
"It's not a wizard! I grew my self-using this magic flashlight!" He said finally said, fed up.
Mabel turned around and grinned, "Lemme see that thing!" Dipper ran down the stairs with Mabel close behind. She then tackled him off the steps.
They start to fight over the flashlight and make a caterpillar grow larger. The caterpillar crushes a car.
"Ooh, 140 points!"
Mabel grabs the flashlight and uses it to make her hand grow bigger, "Ahh!"
"It's okay it can shrink things too." He soothed his sister and used the flashlight to return Mabel's hand back to normal size.
"Normal hand karate chop!" She hits Dipper's hand and takes the flashlight.
"What's the big idea!?"
"Hey! "
Mabel uses the flashlight to make his head bigger and hits his head on one of the Shack's pillars. He tackles Mabel and shrinks her head with the flashlight.
"Now all we have to do is to make her 60 meters tall." 3 joked as Mabel attacks Dipper.
"Hey give it back!"
"Never!"
"Really, this is too much hub-bub about an mm, Mabel!" 3 groused.
In the scuffle the flashlight rolls to where Gideon is. They froze and Mabel hopefully asked, not noticing that Gideon had came up next to them.
"Maybe he didn't see us use it and doesn't know it's a magic flashlight that can grow and shrink things."
"Really?"
Gideon started messing with the flash light and shrunk Dipper, Mabel, and 3 as he laughed creepily and shoved them into a jar.
"Oh this is just fantastic." 3 angrily yelled. Gideon ignored their screams and protests as they walked by his father's used car lot and into his home.
Gideon mutters after his cute routine, "Mouth-breathing fools..." He walked by a crazy, grayed haired woman vacuuming the kitchen and sneered, "Mother."
Gideon enters his room and unscrews the jar containing the twins and 3, spilling them out on his dresser.
"You two!" He growled down at them
"What are you going to do with us?" Mabel asked, holding Dipper fearfully.
Gideon laughs sweetly, "Why Mabel, I wouldn't hurt a hair on your itty-bitty head- if you agree to be my queen!"
"We live in a democracy! And never!" Mabel screamed angrily at him.
"Maybe you'll change your mind after THIS!" He plucked Mabel off the dresser.
"What are doing to her!?" Dipper screamed.
"If he hurts her I'll wring his wittle neck!"
"No! I will fight you until the day I-" He dropped her in a bag of Gummy Koalas.
Mabel started to munch on the candy.
Gideon then turns to Dipper ominously. "As for you, boy..."
"If you hurt him I'LL KILL YOU" 3 said in a scary tone, he turns table a lamp into Dipper's face, "Tell me. How exactly did you come upon this magic item? Hmm? Did somebody tell you about it? Did you... READ about it somewhere?"
Dipper and 3 'looked' at each other and a cold sweat ran down their spines. It can't be…H-he…knows about me!?
Dipper glared at him, felling protective, "Lean closer and I'll tell you!" he barked, placing a hand on 3's spine.
"Well don't mind if I-" Dipper pushed the air horn button next to him and it sounded right in his ear. 3 was laughing its ass off.
"AAAAAAAH! Grrrrr! I COULD SQUASH YOU RIGHT NOW! Steel yourself, Gideon. You can use them. You can use them..." Gideon starts to take calming breaths. Gideon calls Stan and said.
"Stanford Pines, 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! This is Gideon, by the way." 3 and the twins could hear Stan's laughter from their places.
"I have them in my possession! You don't believe me? I will text you a photo!" Seconds went by and he screamed in frustration and threw the phone into the wall and almost hit Dipper. When 3 saw it, it felt a frenzied pulse ripple through its pages and it started to physically tremble, much to Dipper's concern.
"Wait. What am I doing? I don't need ransom! I have THIS!" He held up the flashlight, "I'll shrink Stan and take the shack for myself!" He turns to the twins, "You'll be helpless to stop me. And if you step out of line, SMASH!" He pulls the heads off of the Pines dolls and laughs evilly.
Gideon's father suddenly called up, "Gideon! The ice cream truck is here!
Gideon ran down stairs, but not before placing his hamster on the desk. "Guard them, Cheekums. I'm coming!" He ran off for ice-cream.
Dipper takes out 3 and asks worriedly, "3 are you alright?" 3 remained quiet, but if Dipper placed his ear against its binding he could hear it mutter, "Harm…damage…alone…dark…"
"What's wrong with 3?" Mabel asked concerned.
"I don't know, but we can't stay here. We have to save Stan and take care of 3!" He picks up a tip and poked the hamster.
"I know!" She puts a Gummy Koala in her sweater's pocket, "I will see you later." "
"Okay, how are we going to do this? Gideon's got magic and, like, a zillion inches on us. On the bright side, at least we're the same height again." Dipper said brightly.
"Actually..."
Dipper found a ruler and measured, "You're still taller? Arrgh! How did this happen?"
"I guess it's another mystery."
"Never mind that, what I want to know is what happened to 3?"
"Maybe its scared Gideon will separate you two."
What Mabel didn't know was how close she was to the truth. 3 was having a mental breakdown. All those years of being alone in the dark had actually made it slightly unstable, but it is fine when surrounded with living beings. However, after the threat of Gideon harming Dipper caused its emotions to spike dangerously. "Gideon will hurt him." 3 thought clearly. "Damage him…Gideon will force me back into the cubby, alone…in the dark." 3 was working itself into a frenzy when another voice cut through the haze and startling it, Mabel, and Dipper.
"Who's there?" A male voice boomed.
"We should be asking that!" Dipper yelled looking around. 3 meanwhile got a hold of itself and recognized the voice, "2! Is that you!?" 3 yelled back much to Dipper's, Mabel's, and the voices, 2's surprise.
"3? What are you doing here!? Don't tell me the little skunk Gideon found you too!" 2 asked frantic.
"No, no, I was found by Dipper! 2 what are you doing here?" 3 asked confused.
"Thank god you weren't found by Gideon. I wasn't as fortunate. I was found in an antique shop and the little troll bought me and used me to gain power."
"Wait 3, who is this?" Dipper asked confused.
"Who are you?" 2 asked and found an 8 cm boy standing with an 8.2 cm girl with his awareness. "He's Dipper my…owner. Dipper this is one of my sibling's, Journal 2."
"So you're the human who found my little sister." Wait, 3 is a girl? The twins thought.
"Dipper! We have to grab 2 and take him with us! We can't leave him with Gideon!" 3 pleaded.
"You will do no such thing! Dipper, take 3 away from here, she needs to be protected! If you run with me, then Gideon will realize you also have one of us and will stop at nothing to obtain both of us! Even stooping down to murder!"
"Maybe he won't!"
"3 be reasonable! Just for once listen to me, I'll be okay. I've been hiding the more dangerous items from the toad and replacing them with useless things. If anything comes up, I'll send you a message via 3."
"Wait you were the one responsible for the visions!" Dipper grasped.
"Yes. Please 3…I'll be okay, I promise."
"V-very well." 3 said shakily.
Dipper nodded sadly. "We need to figure out to how to safely get down and down the stairs. He looked over to Mabel who was sitting on Cheekums, "Cheekums, to freedom! To freedom! Oh, you're just a big old dummy-dum!"
"Is she always like this?" 2 asked.
"You have no idea."
Dipper looked at Gideon's hairbrush, "I have a plan." They constructed a rope made of hair and slid down.
"Be safe…brother."
"You too, sister."
They went downstairs and hid in a shoe and watched as Gideon was porking out on a whole tub of cherry ice-cream. He glared at his father and demanded imperiously, "Clean me!" He wipes Gideon's face with a cloth, "Father, could you give widdle old me a ride to the Mystery Shack?" He suddenly turned on the cute act.
"Talk about bipolar." 3 said tiredly, not mustering enough enthusiasm to put force into her snide comments
"Oh, I'd love to, sugar pot, but I have a heck of a lot of cars to sell, I do! I do!" He began to tickle Gideon
"No, no, NO, DON'T TICKLE MEEEE! NO!" He threw a tantrum and the ice cream across the room where it hits a wall, just missing Mrs. Gleeful "NEVER! Never tickle me! What have I told you? What have I told- Look at me. - What have I told you?!"
"Tickling is no laughing matter." He said in a whipped dog way.
"You don't say." 3 said fatigued. Dipper and Mabel looked at each other concerned; maybe the reunion and separation of 3's brother drained her energy.
"There we go." He said patting his head.
"Do you still need a ride?" His father asked hopefully.
"I'll just take the BUS!" He knocks the table over, kicks door open and leaves.
"Precious memories." Gideon's father says in contentment.
"Just keep vacuuming. Just keep vacuuming..." His mother muttered to herself.
"Come on!" Dipper called as he led Mabel through the dog door and to the parking lot. "We need to get higher."
"Yeah, especially you, cause you're short."
"NOWS NOT THE TIME!" 3 roared.
"Mabel! Up there." He points at the flying discount dollar, and they climb it to see Gideon and Lazy Susan at a bus stop. A bus drives by and Gideon enters.
"He's heading to shrink Stan!" Dipper called.
"Oh flying discount dollar…if only you could fly us back to the Mystery Shack." Mabel sighed. Dipper's eyes lit up and pulled out his Swiss Knife, "Maybe it can" He cuts the rope freeing the discount dollar and they start flying away.
The twins cheered and beat Gideon to the Shack and crashed into the totem pole.
"We're just in time, but how are we going to stop him." A woodpecker starts to peck his head, "Ah shoo ah ha ah!"
"Leave him alone!" 3 yelled at the bird.
Mabel saw a wire leading to the roof, "Leave that to Mabel."
Gideon walked past them and she dropped the Gummy Koala in his hair, "I'm sorry, gummy friend."
"It's for the greater good." Must…resist…reference.
"Ugh! One of those infernal Gummy Koalas has gotten into my perfect hair. I can't defeat Stan looking like this." He drops flashlight and walks towards a bath tub to use it as a mirror, takes out the candy from his hair and sprays on hairspray.
"Quick! Get a match!"
Dipper and Mabel run towards flashlight and set it up.
"Quick get in front and I'll re-grow you."
"Okay. Wait your gonna grow us back to equal height right?"
"Dipper! That doesn't matter right now."
"Well if it doesn't matter, why don't you just do it? "
"AWWW! Why you acting so weird! Why can't you just except that I'm a little bit taller than you?"
"Because you keep taunting him about it!"
"Yeah! You're the one who keeps calling me names and stuff."
"Oh, what? You mean like little-"
"Don't say it!"
Gideon stood over them, "Little Dipper." He picks up Dipper, 3, and Mabel.
"I dare say you would have defeated me, if it wasn't for your sibling bickering!" He kicks open the door of the Mystery shack. "The Shack is mine, Stanford Pines!" He holds out the flashlight and turns it on and a beam of purple light flashed out and a fez is all that was left.
"Well, Well Stanford it appears I finally got the best of-"
Soos suddenly crawls out of the fez, "Oh!"
"What?!" Gideon shrieks.
Soos puts his hat back on and looks around, "Alright, something's definitely different here..."
Gideon places Dipper, 3, Mabel, and Soos in a glass jar and shakes them. "Tell me where Stan is!" He screamed.
"Never! You'll never find Stan: on the second door to the left down the hall. Wait, why did I say that?" Once again Soos, you blew it.
Gideon puts the jar in his suit jacket, "Oh Stanford, I'm coming for ya!" He called as they pounded the jar.
Mabel saw his school ID and sticks out tongue and makes raspberry.
"I guess I Soosed that one up, didn't I?"
"Yep."
"Wow, a little voice is echoing in here. You don't think Gideon's suit is haunted do you!?" Soos asked fearfully.
"It's not your fault Soos; I'm the guy who put together that shrink device. I guess it's just you were teasing me like all day. What was that all about?"
Mabel gave him the notebook which keeps track of wins and losses that was full on Dipper's side, but empty on Mabel's. "I guess it's that, you're like, better than me at like everything, and you always rub it in my face... Chess, checkers, ping pong. I guess I finally felt like I was winning at something for once."
"Oh man, now I feel like a big jerk." Dipper said shamefully while 3 tried to console him.
"Don't you mean a little jerk?" They laughed a bit and Dipper said.
"Alright I walked into that one. Are we cool?"
"We're cool." They bumped fists.
Soos held out his hand, "Am I cool?" Way to ruin the moment.
"You're cool Soos." Mabel said with a fist bump.
"Yes!"
Gideon walks into the mirror maze and sees multiple Stan's, "Stanford!"
"Oh hi, Gideon, 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." He vanished.
Gideon puts the flashlight in other suit pocket, "You come back here!" He called running deeper into the maze.
"Try and find me, twerp! Ha, ha ha!"
Dipper, 3, Mabel, Soos stacked up in the jar trying to force open the jar.
"Let's get back that flashlight before Gideon gets Stan." They climbed onto the little jerk's back and Dipper saw the flashlight.
"There it is!"
"Woah! His hair's so shiny!" She approaches Gideon's hair.
"Now's not the time, remember the unicorns!"
"No! Don't look directly at it!"
Soos jumps on Gideon's neck and starts to make angels in the girth, "His neck is really squishy! Hey look, I'm making fat angels."
"Ew! Termites!" He hits back of neck and Soos falls off.
"Tell my storyyyyy!" He got up fine on the carpet and starts eating a floor chip.
Gideon becomes jumpy and started flashing the shrink ray everywhere, shrinking a moose head in the process as Stan laughed mockingly.
Frustrated, he threw the flashlight and broke a mirror.
"Hey! Watch the merchandise!" Stan called.
Gideon grins evilly and started to smash 6 more mirrors causing Stan to step out of the maze.
"You little troll! Those mirrors cost me ten, I mean twenty-five, five-hundred. Five-hundred dollars each and you're paying for all of them!" Not to mention 49 years of bad luck.
"Oh contraire. It will be you who pays!" Gideon pointed the flashlight at him.
"Grunkle Stan is doomed!" Mabel yelled.
"Not completely doomed! To his armpit!"
"Gross! Who knows what's living in there!"
Dipper pushes Mabel in Gideon's clothing, "Just! Uh! Come on!"
"Woah! What is that thing?!" Stan asked backing up.
"Finally after all these years, after every humiliation! Your business, your family, everything will finally be mine! You have no one to protect you now! Prepare for the wrath of Gideon Glee- Gideon Glee- oh oh oh ah oh oh ah." Gideon started to laugh uncontrollably as Stan looked down confused and a little disturbed.
"Eh. I don't even know how to respond to this." He said as Gideon laughed out of control.
"Look um, kid. I think this rivalry thing is getting to you. Ha, I mean I understand. I'm a formidable foe, what can I say."
"No!" Gideon growled as foam starts to come out of his mouth.
"Hey now come on you'll get me one of these days. Maybe, you know, run your evil plan by some friends next time. Workshop it, but first get your issues in order there." Stan said in a chipper voice as Gideon continues to laugh.
Stan looks around then starts to push Gideon with his foot, "Up over the carpet, there we go, around the end table, and out the door." He rolls Gideon down the outdoor door stairs and closes the door. Dipper, 3, and Mabel jump off of Gideon and grabs the flashlight.
"My light!"
Stan sarcastically said, "You're the light of my life too, pal. Whoa, freak show." Stan muttered as he closed the door.
"After you." Dipper graciously asked.
"It's okay; you can go first if you want too. Woah!" She yelped when she returned to normal size,
Mabel re-grows Dipper with flash light and measures height. "Hey, you let me keep my extra millimeter!" She said happily.
"You earned it."
"Aww! Thanks! Little brothe-!"
"Stop it."
"Well I guess we should destroy this thing. You know so it doesn't fall into the wrong hands and junk."
"Seems like the smart thing to do." He gave Mabel the crystal, she was about to smash the crystal when 3 called out, "Wait Soos! He's still in the carpet!"
The twin's blushed and ran to regrow Soos.
Soon, the twins got ready for bed while Stan chased away another Big Winner scam.
"Hey 3 I was wondering…what happened to you back at the Gleeful residence?"
"I'm not sure myself; I think something just snapped inside me. I guess it was all the stress. But 2 managed to snap me out of it. I hope he's okay with that little monster."
"Don't worry 3, Gideon won't get his hands on you or the Shack, I'm sure 2 is alright, I mean, he could always send us a vision when necessary." Dipper assured her. He yawned and crawled into bed. "Goodnight Mabel, 3."
"Goodnight"
"Ha ha. Good night…" Mabel trailed off and thought back to earlier in the day.
Flashback: Few hours ago
While working on making the rope, Mabel took a break and 2 spoke into her mind.
"You're Mabel, right?"
"Yep, Senior Dos!"
"You were in 3's container correct, while she had your body?"
"Yess…" She said, wondering where this was going.
"I-I have to warn you. All three of us: 1, myself, and 3. we all have more power than you, your brother, or 3 realize. I just have to say, 3 is the most powerful and dangerous one of all. So powerful, she could go insane without an anchor and could raze cities down if she wished. The only thing keeping her at bay is your brother."
"Wh-what do you mean?"
"Don't get me wrong, 3 is harmless now; however, seeing Dipper threatened and nearly injured has set off her warning bells. If something happens, she'll snap. She is the greatest ally and your last enemy you'll ever have."
"Wait, Dipper has been threatened before! Why hasn't she gone nuts before?"
"Because it was in a situation where he or yourself would be in time to save him. However, she must of thought it was a truly hopeless situation where Gideon could kill him without a thought or effort and that made caused alarm bells to ring."
"Why are you telling me this? Why not Dipper?"
"As I said, as long as Dipper's alright, she'll be calm. However, we can't interfere with that bond without the fear of damaging it. We can't afford the lost in trust. However, someone must be aware of the potential 3 has, now that his being injured is now a possibility; she'll start looking at everything with a grain of salt. I just want to warn you, before she snaps."
End Flashback
Mabel turned to 3 and sighed. Regardless of 3's potential threat, she trusts her. Besides she doesn't need any reason to protect her brother in the first place.
A/N: Well, that took a dark turn. Now we have some of 3's history and Dipper is thinking into 3's origin.