In the Sacred Sanctuary of Life's Essence, the three Elkron continued to lecture the Mystery Shack crew (who sat upon rocks and logs) about the MagnaSpiders.
"So what do you Elkron expect us to do about stopping a bunch of giant creepy-crawlers?" questioned Stan, "Those things are, right now, as we speak, stringing up Gravity Falls in sticky web, trapping so many potential customers!"
"Our elders foresaw you all finding a way to stop them," replied Hylaeocervopus, feeling as though Stan might have some sort of potential beneath his old and cranky exterior.
"But don't we need some kind of weapon to combat them?" asked Soos.
"Yeah, and we better think of something soon, or else every Human in Gravity Falls is Spider chow!" added Mabel with a bit of a joke. "I don't want my own fluids drained from my body as well."
"What you truly need is confidence in yourselves," said Sylvouranis, "We will guide you, for as we said, you have had the most studied encounters of the supernatural in this land."
"So we're, like, the chosen ones or something like that?" asked Wendy, now letting Dipper go from her cuddling grasp, "That's pretty neat."
"You will all need these...," spoke Hylaeocervopus, going over to a mud-carved basket and reaching into it, pulling out some bizarre tools that looked very much like crossbows crossed with tennis rackets. "These are threat-fighters, used in the first conflict against the MagnaSpiders centuries ago, passed down from generation to generation."
"And we're going to use them to take down the Spiders?" asked Dipper.
"Only to threaten them away from your community," answered Hylaeocervopus, "just enough to herd them all back into their prison."
Noticing that Dipper had just showed signs of a deeply hidden crush on Wendy, Dryosaicha asked Dipper to come to her for a private conversation, which he did. "I have been observing that you have strong feelings for the one taller than you."
"Y-yeah," muttered Dipper quietly, feeling a bit less nervous about sharing his secrets with a non-Human, "But Wendy only sees me as a friend, and she's 3 years older than me."
Dryosaicha just smiled. "You do not need to worry, young Dipper, for when you and her have reached the coming of age in Human years, you will be right for one another."
"You mean when I'm 18 and she's 21?" asked Dipper, his heart starting to beat quickly from hearing about this possibility in the not too distant future.
"Yes. I always receive visions of hopeful futures," replied Dryosaicha, "When that time comes, your friendship with her will blossom into love. You both just need to share your feelings with one another when the time comes."
Feeling so excited for this foretold future, Dipper thanked Dryosaicha and bolted right back to his seat next to Wendy on the log, a big smile on his face.
"Hey, dork, what were you talking about over there to her?" Wendy asked Dipper.
"Just a possible sign for the future," he responded, looking into Wendy's lovely eyes.
The threat-fighters, made from wood and flint, were handed to the MS crew, one each.
"These things are interesting," said Stan, examining the threat-fighter he received. That is when he accidently triggered it to smack him in the face with the racket-like part of the weapon. "Oh! That smarts!"
"Hey, wait a minute," said Dipper, "How come the MagnaSpiders aren't attacking us here in this magical sanctuary?"
"There is an invisible barrier of light shielding this place off from them. Since they have descended into insanity," answered Hylaeocervopus, "they have developed darkness within themselves. They were originally created by that shaman's great spirit-given powers combining with the essence of several Spider species. Now they have truly become abominations, even more so then their original creation in my eyes."
"Oh, wait," interjected Dryosaicha, "I sense that we must get moving now. The inner spirits of the forest are telling me that...the MagnaSpider takeover of Gravity Falls is almost complete and they will move onto the next Human community and so on."
"Well, then, let's get cracking!" said Soos, filled with excitement.
"Alright!" said Mabel with glee.
"Time to show them huge bugs what a man at my age can do!" added Stan.
"Oh yeah, it's butt-kicking time!" spoke Wendy, jokingly trying to sound like she was going to war.
"Okay, team," said Dipper, feeling a bit more confident and braver than usual, feeling so due to the Elkron assisting them, "Let's save humanity!"
Meanwhile, Lil' Gideon was wrapped up in sticky silk webbing and hanging upside down. He was hanging from a tree close to the street, and almost the whole town was also wrapped up in webs, those that were not captured were running in terror as the giant black Arachnids chased them.
"How did I ever get Gravity Falls into this mess?" said Gideon to himself, "Has my desire for the Mystery Shack driven me to be insane enough to unleash a force I cannot control? Life suddenly seems harder now."
At that moment, a MagnaSpider was creeping up the tree Gideon's webby hold was attached to. Gideon quivered in fear as the MagnaSpider poked him with one of its eight legs, testing to see if he was still active. Gideon squirmed in fear from the Arachnid's poke. The Spider then climbed back down the tree, planning to return once Gideon was officially exhausted and easy to kill and drain fluids from.
Not to far from Gideon's position, Candy and Grenda had successfully escaped being captured by the MagnaSpiders and were now both hiding inside a shed together.
"Seriously, what's with these huge bugs?" asked Grenda, sitting in a corner of the shed and quivering.
"I know, they are driving us all out of house and home," said Candy, pacing back and forth, trying to think of a solution to stop the MagnaSpiders. "I don't know what happened to Mabel, though. She might have escaped with her family, or she has been captured and eaten."
"Don't scare me like that Candy!" complained Grenda, "I don't want to think about Mabel supposedly dead."
All of a sudden, the shed's door flew open and there stood a pair of MagnaSpiders, staring at the two girls with their four creepy-looking eyes per Spider. Candy yelped in shock and jumped into Grenda's arms.
"Listen to us, mongrels," spoke one of the Spiders, surprisingly in English, with a voice that sounding like a gurgling demon, "We are two of the few MagnaSpiders to speak in multiple Human languages, and we are here to tell you why we attack your kin, just before we capture you too."
"I-Is this some sort of interrogation?" questioned Grenda, creeped out by both the voices the Spiders had and their odd vocabulary dropping Candy, "Say, Candy, listen to those things talk."
"We, the ones who know Human speech have orders given to us to eliminate the descendants of the settler Humans to these lands," said the second MagnaSpider.
"The settler Humans?" responded Candy with a bit of curiosity, remembering a few history lessons she had learned in school, "Does this go back to the times after the Lewis and Clark Expedition in 1804?"
"Yes, it does, Vertebrate," hissed both MagnaSpiders, now creeping into the shed, closing in on the two girls.
However, they did not yet attack the two young females right at that moment. They both examined Candy, curious by something within her scent. They poked her with their front legs in study, causing the spectacled girl to freeze still in disturbance. Grenda just watched while crouching in the shed's corner, quivering. After about a minute of examination, the two MagnaSpiders backed away. They then stated their prognosis in this strange speech. "You, the one we examined, are not technically descended from the settler Humans of ages past, but instead you are of a different lineage."
So they spared Candy, to her surprise, and went after Grenda. Candy wanted to rescue Grenda, but her own doubts and fear kept her from doing so as Grenda wailed in fear, being wrapped up in the two MagnaSpiders' webbing. After they had dragged the entangled Grenda out of the shed, Candy felt guilty. "Curse you, fear! I should done something!"
She then decided that she should seek help from others that had not been captured. Now feeling her courage come forth, Candy bolted out of the shed, now searching for Mabel and the others from the Mystery Shack, thinking that they might have a solution to this invasion of giant spiders.
Not to long after her departure from the shed, Candy bumped right into Dipper, Mabel, Soos, Wendy and Stan, only about a few blocks away from the Mystery Shack.
"Candy! You're alive!" cheered Mabel happily, she and Candy hugging each other, "But where's Grenda?"
"The MagnaSpiders...," responded Candy, recalling the name the Spiders identified themselves as, "...got her. Oh, and what are those things you are all holding? Crossbow tennis rackets?"
"These are threat-fighters," answered Dipper, "They're one of the few ways to stop the MagnaSpiders."
"Yup," added Soos, "created long ago by the-"
"Wait, do you think the...makers...of these tools don't want us to reveal who they are?" interrupted Wendy, remembering the strict rules that the Elkron had given the five of them, yet she could not quite recall if the Elkron had asked them to keep it all a secret.
"Some Deer-headed protectors of the woods gave them to us!" Stan suddenly blurted out absentmindedly, focused a little bit too much on the glory and money he might receive from defeating the MagnaSpiders.
Just before everyone could scold the old man, out of the nearby trees came the three Elkron helpers of theirs: Hylaeocervopus, Dryosaicha and Sylvouranis.
"Are those Elkron?" asked Candy in amazement. "I-I've heard of them from the local legends books at the library. Looks like they're real!"
"Very well...," grumbled Hylaeocervopus, "It would seem a sixth Human will be joining in defending your community."
"Do we have a spare threat-fighter?" asked Dryosaicha.
"Yes," replied Sylvouranis, pulling out a new threat-fighter he had been keeping in his arrow set and handing it to Candy, "Here, young one, enjoy protecting your home."
"Amazing!" responded Candy with a smile of delight, "I get an ancient weapon from magical forest defenders! Now we can all work together an defeat those monstrous Arachnids!"