Fallen Pine Trees

Chapter 13: What are we Gonna Do?

Mystery Shack Gift shop

"Uh, guys, what are we gonna do about Dipper and Mabel?" Wendy asked Stan and Soos from her regular spot behind the cashier. "I mean seriously it's been three weeks since their mega-fight, and they haven't spoken to each other since."

"They've barely interacted with each other also," Soos said in agreement. "No adventures, no games, just the occasional, hateful glance. But other than that, they've completely cut shut each other out of their lives. It's as if they both lived in separate parallel universes where the other doesn't exist."

"Yeah it pretty bad," Stan remarked, (also agreeing with his employees). "The only thing that they have in common these days is how they both want to stay here to attend school. Though they each want to go to separate schools for different reasons. And their parents are not happy about all this fighting between them."

"Then what are we waiting for dudes? Let's fix this sibling bond/friendship."

"But how are we going to do this?" Wendy asked.

"How about an intervention?" Soos suggested

Wendy did not like this idea, nor did Stan.

"No offence Soos," Wendy responded, "But interventions don't work on kids. I mean my family tried that multiple times on three of my cousins who were addicted to cocaine, refusing to eat fruit, tarring up every couch in sight, "each cousin only having one of these addictions". No of which were successful. In fact, I think that the interventions made things worse."

"I'm with Wendy. Interventions are useless." Stan said in agreement with the teenager.

"Okay, how about time travel."

"Say what now?" Wendy asked, not understanding what Soos was thinking.

"Well from my experience, Dipper and Mabel have a bond that cannot be broken. So eventually it's gotta heal right?"

"Yeah maybe. But we have no idea how long it will take, or how it will happen." Stan answered.

"That's why we need to go forward in time to when the twins are all grown up because they'll probably have mended their bond by then."

"Then why do we need to go forward in time then?" Wendy asked, still not following.

"Because if we take the twins with us and they meet their future selves, (who don't hate each other). They'll see how happy they are when they're not enemies and decide to restore their sibling bond/friendship."

After thinking about it for a moment, Wendy realized one important flaw in Soos's plan, "Uh Soos, how are we supposed to travel into the future when we have no sort of time travel device?"

"Uh well, I was hoping we could find something in one of those journals that could show us how to time travel. Or at the very least, we could look through those doodads that Mr. Pines has stored in the lab and hope that one of them can time travel."

The two employees then turned towards their boss for an answer, who swayed his arms left and right, "Uh-uh, no way. I can guarantee you that none of those deathtraps are time machines. However," he says, suddenly remembering something important, "there is a cave at the bottom of the mountains that allows people to travel through time when you enter it. But be warned, you only get one chance to travel to another time period and back. Afterwards, some mystic force field will keep you from making an attempt to use it a second time."

"And how do you know of this?" Wendy asked.

"I discovered it in the first journal way back when I first moved here. I tried to use it to go forward in time to find out what the winning lottery numbers would be so that I could go make a fortune. F.Y.I. the cave can read minds, and if you're attempting to time travel for the "wrong reasons" then it'll instantly reject you, (while counting that as your one chance)."

"That is genius Mr. Pines," Soos complimented. "Now all we have to do is take the twins to time cave, go into the future, show them how good their lives are when they're friends, (not cheat the lottery), and then the Mystery Twins are back. Problem solved. Who's in?"

"I'm in," responded Wendy. "Those two are my friends, and I can't stand to see them hating each other like. Though we still gotta figure out how we're going to get them to go to the cave together. I mean we all know that Dipper won't go on any adventure with Mabel after last time."

"Leave that to me," Stan said.


The next day

"Remind me why we're out?" Mason asked while his Grunkle Stan drove, (terribly), the two of them, along with Mabel, Soos, and Wendy in the Stanmobile, "that's actually the name of the car".

"We're going to a cave that allows people to travel through time so that we can meet our future selves," explained Soos. "That being the reason for why Mabel's wearing a sweater with happy-faced clocks on it."

"Okay. Now remind me why Mabel here is coming along in the first place?" points to Mabel, (who's sitting beside him), while saying this. "She's just gonna mess things up like she always does."

"HEY!" Barked Mabel.

"Because you two haven't been getting along for weeks," Stan explained as he looked at them through the car's front view mirror, "and we all miss it when you two were BFFs or something like that."

"Grenda, Candy, and Waddles are my BFFs. Not this JERK!" Mabel snapped.

"Whatever. The point is that we hope that this trip through time will show you guys that hating each other isn't a good thing."

"And what if I refuse?" Mason asked.

"Or if I refuse?" Mabel added in.

"If either of you refuses, then neither of you will be allowed to stay for the school year. Meaning that you both will have to go back to Piedmont and not spend any more time with your love interests," threatened Stan. "Am I clear?"

With no other choice, the twins agreed.

A few minutes later the Pines, plus friends arrived at their destination. A cave that's entrance was surrounded by clock symbols, located at the bottom of the mountains.

While Stan stayed behind, (since he couldn't enter the cave a second time), the others went into the cave. Inside the walls were lit by glowing, light blue, clock symbols, (identical to the ones at the cave's entrance), that led to a huge cavern within the cave, covered in the same clock symbols as the ones they'd already seen, (that also glowed). In the centre of the cavern, the gang found what appeared to be a brand new, electronic calendar on a stone base. Shocking everyone as they couldn't believe that something that looked like an average piece of modern tech could do something unimaginable. Not to mention that electronic calendars hadn't been around for that long, yet this one was supposed to have been around for at least eighty years, if not longer. However, the journal confirmed that this was the device, (it even provided instructions on how to use it). Then again, the four of them realized that Stan hadn't told them the whole story; plus nothing in Gravity Falls made sense anyway so why should this.

Following instructions found in the first journal, Mason adjusted the settings on the calendar so that year showed 2032, (upon Soos's request), putting it back on its base afterwards. At this moment the hands on the clocks all over the walls started turning clockwise rapidly, while at the same time, the light from the symbols intensified, creating a massive flash so bright that it knocked Mason and his friends unconscious as the light vanished along with them.

To be continued…


Stay tuned for the next chapter of Fallen Pines Trees, Welcome to the Future.

Just a reminder, the show premiered in 2012 so the show takes place in that same year, (I assume). Meaning that since Mason set the time travel device to 2032, the next chapter will take place twenty years into the future.