Author's note: Chapter 2 is up! I hope people are liking this story so far, even though my Warhammer 40K knowledge could use some work, This story should still go smoothly. Also, If you remember in chapter 1, some government officials found out that earth could be in trouble, let's just say that those guys aren't your ordinary government agents, and they have some interesting history with a certain character in this story. you'll find out what I mean later on. Plus, anyone who knows enough Warhammer probably knows there are certain creatures mentioned in the story. For now, enjoy the new chapter and review, your opinion always helps. Enjoy!
Chapter 2: New Mysteries
In the town of Gravity Falls, anything out of the ordinary could be considered normal these days, especially for Dipper and Mabel's case. When the twins first arrived at Gravity Falls they wanted to go home already. The prospect of spending two months in the Mystery Shack, an old, dusty, tourist trap with their Grunkle Stan, who they barely know and who made them work more instead of play, didn't seem like a good way to spend their summer. Dipper, being the brother with more maturity for a twelve year old, already thought it would be the worst summer while Mabel, the sister filled with optimism and joy, thought it wouldn't be so bad but secretly agreed with her brother. But it only took a few days for the twins to see the more interesting parts of the town.
Ever since Dipper found that mysterious journal in the woods, with its trademark six fingered hand and number 3, the secrets of Gravity Falls were more revealing to him. It didn't take much to convince his sister that strange things were going on in the town, especially since she found out that her first boyfriend she made turned out to be a bunch of gnomes, she hoped it was a vampire. From that moment on, the twins knew that their summer may not be as bad as they thought.
The twins went on many adventures in the town and everyday something new happened. They've seen sea monsters, clones, killer wax figures, midget psychics, hell, Dipper even jumped into a robot once to save his sister. More recently, Dipper has been trying to uncover the secrets of who the author of the journal is to find out why all these unnatural occurrences are in Gravity Falls, while Mabel thinks this is kind of interesting, she would rather have fun with her family and friends to enjoy the summer while it lasts.
The twins even got to know their Grunkle more and spend some quality family time with him, whether quality time meant fishing, scamming tourists, or jail time for forging fake bills, every day they learned more about their Grunkle and that despite his flaws, he still has good in him and they love him all the same. But when Dipper tried convincing Grunkle Stan about the things going on in Gravity Falls, he thought he didn't believe him, until an event involving raising the dead caused Stan to admit he knew the whole time and didn't tell the twins for their own safety. Stan and Dipper swore to each other that they wouldn't keep secrets or try to get in trouble with them, but neither individuals trusted each other and would do the opposite.
Right now, Dipper was looking through the journal he had with his black light, since the author hid many other entries with invisible ink, and was just skimming through the journal pages for anything to help with his investigation on who the author of the journals is or for anything interesting to him. So far, he hasn't found much about the author except the laptop in the bunker a few days ago that Soos, the handyman in the Mystery Shack, promised to fix in a few days, with lots of duct tape. Soos went to the store today to buy some more duct tape and Mabel volunteered since she wanted to buy some stickers to make the laptop look more stylish.
Dipper kept his guard around the counter to see if his Grunkle was coming, knowing that Stan would take that journal away for his "safety" as Stan would want him to believe. Fortunately he did not arrive since last time he saw Stan was at the living room watching "The Duchess Approves", which Dipper never understood the appeal of. He continued to look through his journal, knowing that Stan was too preoccupied over sappy T.V. programming.
"Anything about that author guy yet?" Asked Wendy, a fellow co-worker next to the register.
"No. Just some more entries about the creatures here." Replied Dipper, still skimming through the pages.
"I can't believe how crazy this town really is. Who would have thought that ghosts and shape shifters lived here."
"And you said I was kidding when I told you about the gnomes."
"At this rate, I'll believe anything could exist."
Dipper smiled at his friend and went back to his book, although deep down inside he still loved Wendy more than that. Sure, he didn't act awkward and nervous around her like he used to which is a big improvement, but when Wendy told him she was too old for him and didn't want to ruin their friendship, he felt crushed. But Wendy let him down gently and Mabel was there to cheer him up, and even though he didn't get over his crush completely, he and Wendy still maintained strong bond with each other. Dipper secretly hoped that maybe, just maybe, they'll get together one day. But right now, he wanted to investigate the secrets in Gravity Falls.
Dipper knew that at this point he wouldn't find much about the author until the laptop was fixed so he decided to read about the new creatures. Some were pretty generic like vampires and werewolves, to stranger creatures like space squids and even living toasters. Dipper was about to close the book until he saw a certain entry that he caught by the corner of his eye. When he took a better look, he was fascinated at what he saw.
It was another entry about a creature of Gravity Falls, but the image of the creature stood out from all the rest. The first thing he noticed about it was how alien it looked, it didn't look like it even existed on earth. It had a slim and humanoid appearance and appeared slightly taller than an average human, the creature looked feminine and wore robes with runic symbols, which covered the decorated armor it had underneath, it also wore a large mask that covered its true face underneath, holding in its right hand what looked like to Dipper some sort of sword, though not any sword he's ever seen before.
Wendy notices Dipper's eyes are wide open with fascination and copies the same look when she sees the alien figure on the journal.
"Whoa… what the heck is that thing?" Asked Wendy, both shocked and amazed.
"Let's find out." Said Dipper as he began to read the entry.
"In all my years in the town of Gravity Falls, I have met many strange creatures in Gravity Falls, but I have never met creatures as mysterious this. Although I wished I knew more about these creatures, my first and last encounter did not end so well. While I was wandering the outskirts of Gravity Falls, I saw one of them in the woods. When I tried to talk to it, its friends surrounded me and were prepared to kill me."
Dipper and Wendy looked at each other with concern for a second until Dipper continued reading.
"Then one of them, who I assumed was their leader, said I only had one warning and demanded me to leave and never return or face death. I fled as quickly as I came, but I never forgot their leader's striking image in my head. I plan to go back to them one day and to try negotiate on friendlier terms, then I can learn more about them."
As Dipper finished reading the passage, He and Wendy seemed disappointed that so little was said about the creatures.
"Maybe there's more in other pages?" Suggested Dipper.
He went through the entire journal but to no luck, there was nothing else about them.
"I guess he never went back."
"That's it? That's all we get to know about the space wizard?" Said Wendy while Dipper raised an eyebrow at her. "That's what I think it is."
"There is one way we could find out."
"I dunno dude, remember what happened at the bunker with that thing? I don't want to end up fighting myself again." Said Wendy frowning.
How could he forget? Dipper thought Wendy died there until it turned out to be the shape shifter in disguise, he didn't like thinking about that thing, especially the cryptic message it gave him.
"But this time we'll know that there could be trouble for us, we didn't know there would be a shape shifter in the bunker. Come on, it's better than sitting around here and doing nothing." Said Dipper.
Dipper expected Wendy to say no after the bunker incident. But to his surprise, Wendy nodded her head in agreement and smiled.
"Eh, why not? What's an adventure without the chance of certain doom anyways?" Said Wendy.
"That's great! Let's wait until Soos and Mabel get back and then we'll leave."
Speak of the devil, Soos and Mabel just entered the shack. Dipper and Wendy turned around to see Soos carrying two large boxes, blocking his front view while Mabel was telling him where to go.
"Okay take a few more steps forward. Now go a little to your left, no your other left. Just a few more and- yep! There you go! Right there!" Mabel directed Soos.
"That's a lot a duct tape." Said Dipper as Soos put down the boxes.
"Oh this? All the duct tape is here dude." Said Soos as he pulled out a single duct tape roll out of his cargo pocket.
"Then what's in the boxes?"
"You wouldn't believe it Dipper, they were just throwing away all these poor, defenseless, stickers in the trash. I just had to something about it." Said Mabel happily as she took out one of the sticker packs. "Who would throw away robot unicorn stickers? They're both awesome and adorable."
"O-kay anyways, Wendy and I are going to investigate another mystery and we need you guys to tag along."
"You and Wendy huh?" Mabel grinned slyly while Dipper looked at her annoyed.
"It's not like that Mabel, you know why." Said Dipper, half lying.
"It's just a joke Dipper, even if it-
"You want to go with us or not?" Interrupted Dipper.
"Sure Dip! I already hanged out with Candy and Grenda yesterday so I'll go with you." Said Mabel. "Can you come with us Soos?"
"I'll ask mister Pines if he's okay with it." Said Soos before Dipper ran right in front of Soos.
"Wait a minute, we can't tell Stan about this." Soos gave a confused look.
"Why not? It's not like we could be facing certain doom." Dipper gave Soos a serious look, convincing Soos not to tell Stan. "Oh."
Dipper looked at his watch for the time. "Alright guys, its almost 2 o clock right now. We should head out now so we can get as much time as we need to investigate. We got a long way to go."
Everyone nodded as they went outside, after checking that Stan wouldn't follow them from behind.
"So what are we going to look for?" Asked Mabel as Dipper showed her and Soos their new mystery.
Speaking of Stan, he is still sitting at his chair watching "The Duchess Approves", wiping tears from his eyes at a dramatic scene.
"Yes! You tell him Duchess!" Said Stan as he continued to wipe tears from his face with tissues.
"We'll be right back after these messages." The T.V. displayed as it went into commercial break.
"Oh man. That lady is a lot like me… but prettier… and female." Said Stan as he realized he had no more vanilla ice cream in his container. "Kids! I need you to get me ice cream from the fridge because I refuse to stand up!" Stan shouted.
After a few moments of silence, Stan was surprised he received no response. He shouted again and still received no response. He groaned and actually stood up to go to the fridge.
"Do I have to do everything myself?"
As Stan got back to his chair, his show was about to start again until it was interrupted.
"We interrupt this regularly scheduled program for breaking news." As the message cut to a female reporter in a newsroom.
"Aw, come on! Now I have to sit through this junk." Stan stared at the T.V. watching but not paying any attention. "I bet it's something about that beaver kid again."
"Citizens in the city of Astoria, Oregon are being evacuated by military personal, due to the threat of an incoming asteroid."
Now Stan was actually interested in the news report, paying attention to the details that unfolded.
"We now go live to a reporter on the field who has more info on the situation. Jim?"
The T.V. then cut to Jim as he was standing behind what was going on. Military personal were escorting civilians out the town, lines of civilians were being led by the army to leave safely and orderly, while some tried to go back, they were prevented by soldiers blocking them as they politely asked civilians to go back in the line.
"Thanks Susan. The entire civilian population in Astoria, Oregon has-
But before the news reporter could finish his report, two soldiers and a man in black stepped into camera view and interrupted the news report.
"Sir, civilians are not allowed to stay within the town. I'm going to ask you that you leave immediately." Said the man in black sternly.
"Hey I have permission here alright? I'm part of the-
"Turn off the camera sir, you're not allowed to record here."
"We just need to finish this report, it's my job to do this."
"And it's my job to evacuate everyone out of the town for their safety. Now turn off the camera and move back in the line now sir."
As Stan watched the situation unfold, he noticed something peculiar about the man in black. He wasn't even sure why a man in black would be there in the first place, CIA wouldn't be there in a situation like this. As the arguing went back and forth, Stan's eyes widened in shock as he realized who that agent really was. Asteroid threat, man in black, his constant persistence for the reporter to leave.
"It can't be." Stan mumbled.
What sealed the deal for Stan was when the man in black went up to turn off the camera himself and caught a split second glance of a badge, sticking out of the man's coat, showing a capital D and part of a golden colored shield, before the man cut the feed that went back to Susan.
"Jim? Are you there?" Asked Susan before Stan turned off the T.V.
"They're back."