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The fourth chapter of Weird Falls, the twins meet for the first time in years.

(Mabel)

To say that today was weird was the understatement of the summer, at least to one Mabel Pines. She had expected a wondrous time in the great outdoors, with the possibility of an epic summer romance. What she got was an old dusty book that claimed that all of the creatures of fiction were real, a bunch of gnomes looking for a new queen, and a male look-alike kicking said gnomes butts into the ground. Witness to say that it was a strange day for the piedmont born Pines.

But first, let's back up a bit.

It had started out as a normal day, tourist were on their way to be scammed, Wendy was being lazy, and Soos was rearranging the merchandise. Mabel had tried and failed to flirt with some boys, and always ended up scaring them away. Her latest attempt was leaving a note for a cute boy to find, the trick was that it was rigged.

A young boy with dark brown hair opened her note, and looked around in bewilderment. Before anything could happen, Stan appeared out of nowhere with a smoke bomb, and requested/demanded Mabel to go hang up signs in the spooky part of the forest. Mabel, being her overly enthusiastic self, readily accepted the job, and went off into the woods.

"Doodly doo, hanging up signs, boopity boo, hammering nails," Mabel sang whilst she hammered nails into the poor poor trees. Eventually she came across one made out of metal, a hollow metal tree to be specific, a hollow metal tree with a door that she was in front of to be even more specific.

Opening the door, she saw a dusty contraption with two switches.

"Ha ha, dust," she flipped the two switches, and turned around when she heard a metallic hatch opening. Behind her was a rectangular hole in the ground, and inside of it was a VERY dusty book. She read through the book, marveling at it's contents, before frowning. Her mother would've loved this book; she had made a website that showcased all of the weird things she saw when she was on grandma's tour after all. She continued reading the book, not realizing that she was heading FURTHER into the woods, and being watched by Bricriu.

(Bricriu)

Twelve years, twelve years he spent not knowing Little Duck and her son were alive. Twelve years he had spent NOT trying to kill them, twelve years his boss was pleased with his deed. So much for that now, Bricriu's boss was livid when it was discovered that he failed to kill Fiona Phillips-Pines. He was given one final chance, and if he failed by the summer's end, his boss would see to his destruction personally. The devious spirit transported to the gnomes area of the forest, appearing in front of Jeff...while he was bathing in squirrels.

The gnome's current leader fell out of his tub when he noticed the blue ball of light, and quickly covered himself with a large leaf.

"Warn a guy when you warp in like that will ya!"

"You've been looking for a new queen right?" Bricriu disregarded the gnome's comment, and cut straight to the chase.

"Well yeah," Jeff went behind a large rock, and came out a moment later in his usual clothing, "but why do you care?"

"There's a girl with that old guy's book on her way here," Bricriu hastily explained, sensing Dipper nearby, "you can have her, but be warned: she has a protector."

"Hot diggity dog, why didn't you say so," Jeff took off his hat, and smoothed his hair and ran off, "Shmebulock get my cologne!"

When Jeff was far enough, Bricriu let out a haughty laugh.

"Idiot, it's not like I expect good results; this is just a test of the boy's power, nothing more, nothing less." The spirit left in a small flash of blue light, unaware that Dipper had heard his conversation with Jeff.

(Dipper)

To say that Dipper was shocked is an understatement. After all, he just heard his mom's nemesis tell Jeff the Gnome to kidnap a girl. Whether or not it was a trap wasn't his first thought, it was saving this girl from being married to over 1000 gnomes. Closing his eyes, he used his magic to sense where the girl was, and ran toward her location. His mom was not going to like this.

By the time Dipper found Mabel, she was tied down like Gulliver from Gulliver's Travels. He was up in the trees, making sure not to draw attention. Quickly summoning a blade made from his ancient magic, he leapt out from the trees, and cut her free.

Grabbing her hand, he lead her back through the woods to it's closest exit; which happened to lead toward the Mystery Shack, "No time, just follow me!"

After dodging boulders, flying gnomes, and a couple toppled trees, the two made it to the Mystery Shack relatively unscathed. They were face to face with a gigantic gnome, made from hundreds of other gnomes. Neither made a move, it was as if they were in the old west, even a tumble weed flew by.

"ATTACK," the gigantic gnome sent a fist flying at the twins, obeying Jeff's order wholeheartedly. The attack wouldn't be useful though, as Dipper re-summoned his blade.

The young magic user, leapt onto the fist, slashing at the gnomes that it composed of. It broke apart, and while the gnomes were flying about, Dipper was dodging them and heading toward its right leg. Disintegrating the blade into pure magical energy, and absorbing it into his fist, Dipper threw a punch of his own instantly demolishing the appendage and sending gnomes soaring through the air. The monstrosity fell due to lack of balance, and before it could reassemble itself, Dipper grabbed Jeff.

Nervously chuckling at his current predicament, Jeff did the only thing he could think of, "no hard feelings right?"

Glaring at the gnome, Dipper held him by the back of his overalls, and gave him a look that showed his lack of amusement. Jeff was thrown into the air, shooting through it like a rocket.

"Looks like Jeff is blasting off again!"

(Mabel)

Today was certainly the weirdest day of her life, no doubt about it. But on the bright side she got to meet a new friend. So what if he was a lookalike of her, he did make that black tank-top, grey jeans, and grey shoes work, so it evened out in her eyes.