A HALF HOUR LATER

Dipper had just came out of the shack wearing his regular clothes. He then went over to Pacifica who was standing next to a golf cart and said "Okay get into the golf cart I'll drive us to the diner."

"I am not getting in that thing." scoffed Pacifica.

"Then would you prefer to walk there?" Asked Dipper.

"Okay I'll get in."

They then got into the golf cart and proceeded to drive to Greasy's diner. When they got there Dipper helped Pacifica out of the golf cart and walked into the diner with her. The minute they got inside Pacifica was shocked at how bad the place looked but she trusted Dipper so she kept her comments to herself. As they proceeded to their booth Pacifica handed Dipper her purse and said "Hold this while I get into my seat."

"Ugh. This is heavy! What's in it?" Dipper asked.

"Oh just a couple of thousand dollars, my phone, some mace, and my hairspray." Pacifica replied as she got into her seat and took her purse back. She then saw Dipper looking around as he got into his seat and asked "What are you looking for?"

"Oh. I'm making sure we weren't followed by Mabel and I don't see her anywhere so I guess we're in the clear." Dipper said as he slowly relaxed into his seat.

Unfortunately Dipper didn't realize that Mabel, Stan, Wendy, Candy, and Grenda were in the back of the kitchen listening with Stan's hi-tech listening equipment. "Okay so far it's starting out nice so let's not jump in yet." Mabel said.

Just then Lazy Susan approached Dipper and Pacifica's booth to take there orders. Pacifica not know what to order asked "So what should I get?"

"How about we start out with the basics some burgers, fries, and shakes." Dipper answered.

"Okay if you say so." Pacifica replied. As Lazy Susan went to get their food ready Pacifica turned to Dipper to ask "So how did you get your tightwad uncle to give you money for this?"

"Easy, I threatened to call in favor to someone who's friends with an IRS agent." Dipper said confidently.

In back Stan just let out a low growl.

"You know someone who's friends with an IRS agent? How that happen?" She asked.

"Well let's just say it involves Robbie, mail being delivered to the wrong places, and videos of Mabel-" Dipper answered before Pacifica interrupted him.

"Say no more." Pacifica said and then went on "I already learned the hard way that when it comes to Mabel be prepared for anything."

"Boy is that right." Dipper chuckled.

"What are they talking about? I am adorable and a delight." Mabel said while unaware Stan and Wendy were rolling their eyes.

Dipper then went on "Well it basically ended with us getting even with Robbie and us cashing in on it at the same time. Too bad the only downside is that their are pictures of me out there somewhere and I don't know where they are. I just hope they don't wind up on the internet."

"Don't worry I would never put them on the internet." Pacifica whispered.

"What was that?"

"Nothing." Pacifica answer making sure Dipper didn't know she had his wolf boy photos and then went on to say "You know I sort of envy how close you and your family. I mean it looks like you guys go tough situations at times but at the end of the day you guys still stand strong. I just wish my family was a lot like yours."

"I met your father remember? I wouldn't be surprised if someone decided to mess up his face someday. No offense." Dipper replied.

"None taken. I wouldn't be surprised if that actually happens." Pacifica said letting out a small chuckle.

Dipper then went on to say "You want someone to talk to there's always me and Mabel. I mean you can always talk to me and spend time with Mabel. Heck you can always join one of Mabel's slumber parties."

"I don't know about that. I have a feeling I would get overwhelmed quickly if I went to one of those." Pacifica said.

"Oh yeah I know what you mean. I slept outside once just to get away from it and ended up with a wolf chewing on my leg and an owl trying to eat my tongue."

"Wow, that must of been rough." Pacifica said with an amazed look on her face.

"Oh that was just the beginning of it. You see what happened next was-." Dipper then went on to explain the incident with the secret room and the carpet that made people switch bodies.

Meanwhile while Stan was listening to the story he had realized he had given the talk to Mabel who was in Dipper's body. "So that was you who got the.. you know." He said to her.

"I don't want to think about it. I still have nightmares about it." She said while shivering.

Stan then handed her a candy bar and said "Here forget it ever happened."

Mabel took it and said "I don't know Gruncle Stan sometimes the nightmares make me think of telling Mom and Dad what happened."

Stan then pulled out some more candy and replied "Oh you're good. Here this is all the candy I have."

Mabel with a grin on her face took the candy and started to consume it.

Just then Lazy Susan brought Dipper and Pacifica their food and they continued to talk while they were eating.

It was at that moment Wendy pulled Mabel aside and said "You were right Mabel. Pacifica does like Dipper but before you do anything I want you to at least listen to me okay?"

"Okay." Mabel said unsure of what was happening.

"It seems to me that right now those two aren't interested in anything more than friendship right now and if you decide to push you and Dipper could lose Pacifica as a friend for good. That is the last thing I want you two to go through. Do you understand?"

Mabel just remembered her encounter with the Love God and the mess she made back then. She immediately saw where Wendy was coming from and replied "Okay Wendy I won't do anything. But if those two are too stupid to act on their feeling in the future then I'll give them a push."

"Okay but just clear it with me first." Wendy chuckled.

"Okay." Mabel said.

Wendy then put her hand on Mabel's shoulder and said "Hey, some people that the best romances start with friendship. Don't you think so?"

"Yeah I think so too Wendy." Mabel replied.

Just then a huge limo pulled up in front of the diner. Pacifica look out the window and started to look upset. "Oh no. Not her." she uttered.

Dipper looked out the window and said "That doesn't look like your family's limo. I wonder who it belongs to."

"It belongs to a family who is rivals with the Northwest family. It's probably their daughter like usual." Pacifica said with an upset look on her face and then went on to say "She's basically the reason I am the way I am. My father wants me to be exactly like her but better. That's how it's been my entire life. I'm not allowed to do anything she doesn't do like I'm nothing but her clone."

"Who is this girl?" Dipper asked.

"Atlantia Southeast." Pacifica uttered.

Just then the diner door blew open and a girl with red hair walked in with four bodyguards. She was about a year older than Pacifica and was wearing a gold dress that clearly shouted out "I am richer and better than all of you!" She then went over to Dipper and Pacifica's booth and said "Well if it isn't my lesser self Pacifica."

"Hey Atlantia. What are you doing here?" Pacifica said in a depressed low voice.

"Well I happened to hear that the Northwest party hit a new low. What happened? You didn't have enough people there so you let the town in thinking I wouldn't find out? This just proves my point. You'll never be better than me. You're not even less than me. You're just nothing!" Atlantia said. She soon took a look at Dipper and said "Who's this cutie?" She then approached him and told him "Hey why don't you ditch this nothing and come out with me? I mean she's basically a wannabe version of me. So why eat this garbage called food with THAT when you can have something nice with me?"

Dipper then stood up and looked at Atlantia and said " You're right this food is garbage... CONSIDERING YOU'RE WEARING IT!" He then grabbed the food and dumped it all over Atlantia.

Mabel and the others had a shocked look on their face. She immediately said "Okay Dipper's gonna need our help!"

As Atlantia's bodyguards were busy trying to clean her up Dipper reached out his hand to Pacifica and said "Come on Pacifica we're leaving!" The moment after Pacifica takes his hand he turns to Atlantia and says "And just for the record the fact that Pacifica is nothing like you PROVES SHE'S BETTER THAN YOU!" Just as he and Pacifica head to the door Dipper gives Lazy Susan all the money he has and says "Here Susan. Here's the money for the meal and for the mess I made. Sorry about that."

The moment Dipper and Pacifica left Atlantia screamed out to her guards "Find out where they are going so we can teach them a lesson! NOBODY MESSES WITH A SOUTHEAST!"

"YOU'RE NOT GOING ANYWHERE NEAR THEM!" It was Mabel with Stan, Wendy, Candy and Grenda standing beside her. She then screamed "GET'EM!" as she jumped toward Atlantia.

All of a sudden a fight started breaking out in the diner with Mayor Tyler nearby giggling and saying "Git'em! Git'em!"

As Dipper and Pacifica got near the golf cart Pacifica turn around and said "It's noisy in there. I wonder what's going on in there?"

"Who cares? She's probably throwing a diva tantrum." Dipper said. He then turned to Pacifica to ask "Do you want me to take you home?"

"No I don't want to go home quite yet. How about we to a place you go to?"

"Okay I'll take you to my secret place. I'm going to have to drive back to the shack since it's near there."

As Dipper and Pacifica drove away they didn't seem to notice one of Atlantia's bodyguards flying out the window behind them.

A while later Dipper and Pacifica arrived back to the shack and took a short walk into the forest. They shortly arrived at the spot where Dipper calls his secret place. It was basically a spot where trees and plants were around them. You could hear the sounds of animal and nature all around but the main thing it just felt peaceful the perfect place to get away from everything and just think.

"Well here it is my secret place. I didn't think I was ever going to show thins to anyone but then again I didn't think my day would start off with an auction." Dipper said.

"Yeah. I'm curious. Why did Mabel hold that auction in the first place." Asked Pacifica.

"I think I know why." Dipper said and went on to tell her about the road trip he took and what he did plus finding his test results to Mabel's dating quiz making him think he would never be a good boyfriend.

Pacifica just smiled and said "Dipper after what you did for me today you proved that any girl would be lucky to have you as a boyfriend."

"Thank you, Pacifica. That really makes me feel better." Dipper said with a smile.

A of a sudden a voice comes out of nowhere saying "Well well well, what do we got here?" It was the gnome Jeff with an army of gnomes with him. "If it isn't Mabel's brother Dipper."

"What are they?" Pacifica asked.

"Gnomes." Dipper answered. He then asked "What do you want Jeff?"

"A new queen." Jeff answered.

"Jeff you know Mabel does not want to be your new queen so let it go." Dipper said

"Well if we can't have Mabel then I think we'll take that girl right there." Jeff said while pointing to Pacifica.

"There's no way I'm going to let Pacifica be your new queen so you can forget it!" Dipper shouted.

"Yeah I figure you say that which is why we'll handle you first. GET HIM!" Jeff screamed.

All of a sudden a whole bunch of gnomes jumped out of nowhere and jumped on Dipper tackling him to the ground.

"PACIFICA RUN!" Dipper screamed.

But Pacifica just stood there. She did not want to leave Dipper behind and she didn't want to be their new queen either. Slowly the gnomes began to corner her desperate she reached into her purse pulling out her mace and spraying it at the gnomes screaming "Take this!". Blinding all the gnomes until her mace ran out.

Jeff realizing he needed to be the one to grab her said "If you want something done right you need to do it yourself." while he slowly approaching her.

Pacifica then took a gamble by pulling out her hairspray and spraying Jeff with it.

"Hah! That didn't even hurt!" Jeff said but all of a sudden he stop and started feeling his beard. "Whoa! My beard feels so soft and firm! Hey guys come feel my beard! All of you come feel it!" He shouted. Suddenly all the gnomes rushed over to feel Jeff's beard with the occasional oohs and ahhs. Then he said "Wait a minute. Aren't you the guys that was suppose to be holding Dipper? Uh oh."

Dipper stood up and said "Pacifica get behind me!". After she got behind him he reached into his pocket for something. It was a pig whistle he got after a run in with Gideon. Dipper started using it causing all the gnomes to drop down, cover their ears, and howl in pain. He then stopped the whistle and said "Now we're going to leave now Jeff and you're not going to follow us. You got it?"

Jeff looked up to him and said "You know we won't stop. Not until we have our new queen!"

"So you won't stop until you have a new queen huh?" Pacifica said and then went on to say "How about I tell you where you can find a new queen and I can even tell you where you can get her?" she said with a devilish smile.

A few minutes later Dipper and Pacifica arrived back at the shack. "Well this was some day." Dipper said and then asked "Do you want me to take you back home?"

"No thanks. I think I'll walk home I mean after today I feel like I can take on anything." Pacifica said. She then kissed Dipper on the cheek and said "Thank you for today." before running off.

Dipper went inside blushing while holding his hand on the cheek she kissed. He then saw Mabel, Stan, Wendy, Candy, and Grenda sitting in the living room bruised and roughed up. "What happened to you guys?" he asked.

"We picked another fight with the unicorns again." Mabel said while immediately hiding her hands behind her back. "What happened to you?" she asked.

"Gnomes." Dipper said.

"So I guess you saved Pacifica from becoming their new queen huh Dipper." Mabel said.

"Actually Pacifica was the one who saved day. They had me pinned down to the ground and she managed to ward them off with mace. Then when she ran out she sprayed Jeff with hairspray and it was enough to get him to distract the other gnomes so I could get free and pull out this." He said while pulling out the pig whistle.

Mabel seeing this screamed "EVIL!" while she rushed to cover Waddle's ears. It was at that moment Dipper saw red hair stuck to Mabel's hand.

"Is that Atlantia Southeast's hair?" He asked.

"Uh. Maybe." She said.

"I had a feeling you were following us given today started with me in a bachelor auction and there's one thing I have to say."

"Dipper I only had the be-"

"Thank you."

"Dipper please forgive- Wait. Huh?"

"While I'm upset about the whole bachelor auction I understand why you did it and what today made me realize was I could be a decent boyfriend to someone someday."

"You know I just want you to be happy Dipper."

"I know Mabel."

"I guess the next thing we should discuss is what to do if the gnomes decide to go after Pacifica again."

"Oh yeah! I didn't finish the story so after I used the whistle Jeff started going about how he'll never stop until he gets a new queen. So Pacifica told him where he could find a new queen and who to go after."

"Who?"

"I'll give you a hint Mabel. You have her hair stuck to your hand."

"ALL RIGHT PACIFICA!" Mabel shouted while jumping up and making a fist with the hand that had Atlantia's hair in it and raising it in the air.

MEANWHILE ON A ROAD LEADING OUT OF GRAVITY FALLS

Atlantia was in sitting her limo with a black eye and a chunk of her hair missing. Her bodyguards were beaten up pretty good and could barely stay awake. "I can't that brat had the nerve to do that to me!" Atlantia griped. "As soon as I make it home I'm going to bad mouth Pacifica to the point where she will have no social standing. I mean that nothing is not better than me! And after I'm done with her I'm going after that brat and his stupid family! NOBODY MESSES WITH A SOUTHEAST!" Atlantia then noticed the limo was slowing down. "Driver why are we slowing down?" She asked.

"It looks like there's something in the road." Her driver responded.

"Then go around it." She whined.

"I would but it looks has no intentions of letting us pass."

"Well exactly is it?"

"I'm not exactly sure but it looks like a giant lawn gnome and now it's charging for us!"

Atlantia thinking her driver is delusional sticks her head out the window just to see what's going on. There she saw a giant gnome creature being controlled by Jeff screaming "GIVE US OUR NEW QUEEN!"

Atlantia screams "AHHHHHHHHHH!"

TO BE CONCLUDED