Okay, it seems I need to get some timelines straight. This is post "Gideon Rises" Gravity Falls, and to answer your question random guest, Gideon escaped prison with the assistance of Larry King's wax head. It only cost him one of his white Elvis wigs. (-_0). And….hellhounds are Percy Jackson. Danny has Cujo. On the Danny Phantom side of things, BTW, PP NEVER happened. My head canon forbids it. But everything up to D-Stabilized has. Oh, Look! Soos in a kiddy pool. WHAAAA…..?

Chapter 6: Ghost hunters are no match for Phans.

ParanomiCon. Think ComicCon but in a RennFest setting. (Oh how I wish this actually existed and it wasn't doomed to only live in my head.) Tall pines that were once silent and mysterious were now crowded with white tents, pavilions, people, and ultimately, noise. LOTS of noise. Staff and customers arguing, lines complaining, Fentons screaming, etc. The con was divided into "villages" based on category: Paranormal Science (ESP PK Superhuman abilities, aliens), Undead (Ghosts, zombies, necromancy, Frankenstein technologies, cryogenics), Magic and Sorcery (Witchcraft, Conjuring, Summoning Spirits and Demons, Black and white Magic, Hogwarts signup sheets), Divination (Psychics, palm reading, prophesy, astrology, horoscopes) and Beasts of legend ( Sasquatch, lock ness, mermaids, dragons, gremlins, goblins, moblins, gremgoblins, mythological monsters, sirens, familiars, spirit animals, Pokémon). There were also several urban legend tents and fandom tents for television and film, as well as local supernatural town heroes. Needless to say, Amity Park and Norrisville were legends here.

Dipper and Mabel and Norman were trying to take it all in.

The two of them were currently wandering through the Beasts of legend village, comparing what they saw to what they remember.

"There's no mention of Manotaurs anywhere?!" complained Dipper. Mabel was watching as one or two of Steve's gnomes hobbled around, trying to convince people they weren't smurfs. She laughed inside.

"Maybe they just haven't heard of them yet." She reasoned. Norman was with walking them, but he kept glancing at the Magic Village every few seconds, particularly the witches' tent. Dipper took notice.

"Hey, uh, you looking for someone, Norman?" he asked. Norman sighed. "An old friend of mine." He said, embarrassed. Mabel cocked her head at the statement.

"You had a friend who's a witch?"

"No, but she was hanged for witchcraft when she was my age." The twins didn't know how to respond.

As the trio wandered on through the maze of freak shows and conspiracy theorists and alien enthusiasts, Dipper and Norman began consulting the schedule for panel times.

"Hey, Norman, isn't that the Ghost hunting thing you wanted to see? The Fentons or whatever?" Norman nodded, and then remembered his encounter with their son.

"You don't want to go see a panel; you want to go see the kid." Norman said, grinning. Dipper shrugged, his cover blown.

"Well, yeah, I kinda want to see why he-"

"OH MY GOD! SOOS?!" Cried Mabel suddenly. The three young folk whirled around to see Soos lounging nonchalantly in a kiddy pool wearing nothing but a pink mermaid tail and a sea shell bra. The sparkling purple wig was not helping. Dipper and Norman burst out laughing while Mabel ran up to him and starting stroking the tail and the wig. Soos looked as happy as a man child in a kiddy pool. He grinned at the sight of the youth.

"Hey dudes! Check it out I got a job as a model!" Norman and Dipper only laughed harder. Mabel's eyes were shining.

"SOOS," she said, "that is the most beautiful sight I've ever seen."

"No. Honkin. Way." Mabel and the others turned to see two teenage boys behind them, one tall with deep purple hair, the other short, fat and ginger. The Purple haired kid was staring at Soos in awe. "Man, you are the straight up cheese! Can I get a picture?" Soos nodded. That was the whole point of this anyway. Dipper, Norman and Mabel stood to the side while the two guys posed with Soos the mermaid man.

Norman's vision wasn't playing tricks on him again, but he felt different around the purple haired kid. Norman hoped it was just the Convention but the guy seemed to radiate ancient power.

Just then Norman did have vision problems. Apparently Purple and ginger were friends of Ghost kid's because his trio had just caught up to them. Norman avoided looking at Danny, but Dipper glared at him head on.

"Oh, hey, Danny. Small world isn't it?" he asked, accusation evident in his voice. Danny eyed the 12 year old warily. "Yeah, smaller than it seems. Have you met Randy and Howard?" he asked, gesturing to the two when he said their names. Dipper shook his head. Mabel had stopped petting Soos's costume and had started playing with Randy hair, mesmerized by its color. Howard watched, rather amused, as Randy tried to lean away. "Mabel, stop it!" Dipper yelled.

Mabel replied, "I will when you get an interesting hair color!" turning to Randy she whispered, "Who was the genius behind this work of art…"

"Okay! Leaving! Leaving!" Randy said as he jumped up and walked over to Danny. "Wanna go watch your parents, man?" Danny shook his head. "No, I'd rather not go near all those ghost hunters."

"Why not?" asked dipper. Danny frowned at him.

"Reasons." Dipper narrowed his eyes. Danny sighed. The truth was the other ghost enthusiast and ghost hunters were probably up to their chests in detection equipment, and Danny didn't want to draw any attention.

"Oh, Dipper, just tell him!" cried Mabel, gesturing to Danny. "Norman has to warn him and everything!" Danny Frowned. Norman stared at his feet and dipper began silently protesting with Mabel. Sam, Tucker, Howard and Randy had wandered over and started the 'who can eat this monster turkey leg the fastest'.

"Warn me about what? What's wrong with you guys?" Danny asked, getting cautious. Norman continued to avoid Danny's gaze. He had figured out who the kid's ghost half way. All you had to do was look at Mabel's poster wall. He turned to the twins.

"Hey, can you guys give us a minute? I'd rather tell him alone." Dipper sent Danny one more warning glare, pointing at his eyes and then at Danny, before taking Mabel over to watch Tucker and Howard choke on turkey. Norman turned back to Danny.

"Let's go someplace less hectic!" Danny nodded.

The two teens sat at the base of a large pine tree a few was further into the woods. Norman took a deep breath.

"I know you're half ghost, Phantom." Danny stared at Norman, shocked, before getting a very angry look on his face.

"Who told you that?" he demanded. Norman squirmed away from him.

"Don't yell at me! I can see ghosts! Like even invisible ghosts! I see both your forms every time I look at you!" he yelled back. Danny paused, and then relaxed slightly.

"That's what was wrong. I bet double vision hurts you head." He sympathized. Norman nodded, his eyes still down cast. "Like a paper cut." He said.

Danny apologized for overeating. Norman laughed it off.

"I would freak out too. But that's not why I wanted to talk to you. A ghost named Clockwork-"

"You saw CLOCKWORK!?"

"-yeah…and he warned me and Dipper and Mabel about an impending apocalypse. He told us that five people were coming that we needed to meet. You and Tucker and Sam, and I guess Randy and Howard. He said that all of you would need to work together to stop…whatever. OH! And he said to tell you in particular that Vlad didn't lie when he threatened you." Finished Norman. He glanced at Danny in time to see his face tighten at the last bit. Curious, Norman asked "what was the threat?"

"Vlad threatened he could invade my mind. I don't know of any ghost that can do that, other than Nocturne. He must have-" But Danny didn't get to finish his sentence, for just then the two boys were interrupted by a crashing noise. They both turned to see a giant robot towering over them, with none other than Hannibal McFist at the controls.

McFist had a problem. He was told to kidnap a teenager with dark spiky hair, blue eyes, wearing a red baseball tee. Below him were two teenagers with dark spiky hair, blue eyes, both wearing red baseball tees. One was looking at the robot with fear, the other with annoyance. Well, reasoned McFist, Just to be safe… He reached out both robot arms and snatched up Norman and Danny, one boy in each hand. Danny immediately tried to go ghost, but unbeknownst to him, Vlad had set anti-ghost pulses to cancel his powers on all of McFist's gadgetry. Danny was helpless. He glanced at Norman, and Norman saw from his expression that something was wrong. The two began to scream at the top of their lungs and the McFist bot carried them deeper into the woods.

Cliffhanger. I know. This was mostly for me. I've always thought that Norman and Danny had unnaturally similar character designs for both being ghost heroes (in one way or another). And I felt I needed to get the action started.

I have no idea what compelled me to put Soos in a mermaid costume. But I think it works. (^_^) see you on the other side.