Authors note: Another chapter for you lovely people of the internets. If there's anything to say in this chapter, it would have to be that I'm not the best at describing every single little detail, so if you have trouble picturing what I describe in this chapter with the aliens, the aliens I made here are inspired from the Combine in Half-life 2, except they have their own little twists I gave them so I hope this helps. Other than that, there's A LOT of descriptions for world building so I hope you attempt to enjoy the new chapter, reviews are always appreciated by the way.

P.S. - If you really want to get into the atmosphere, play some tunes from the Half-life 2 soundtrack. You can find them on YouTube and play which one feels appropriate for this chapter.

Chapter 2: The Usual Day

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"Morning Soos." Said the twins to Soos who tipped his hat to them.

"Morining dudes." Soos greeted and then waved to Stan. "Morning Mr. Pines."

Stan just stared at Soos and waved to him, not really acknowledging his presence and started walking off on his own until Soos blocked him.

"Hold on Mister Pines, you can't just go off on your own without me, Mabel's orders." Said Soos while Stan stared at the former handyman blankly before nodding.

All of a sudden, an automated voice could be heard throughout the town.

"THE TIME IS NOW SEVEN THIRTY A.M. ALL CITIZENS ARE REQUIRED TO REPORT TO THEIR POSTS IMMEDIATELY OR FACE SEVERE PENELTYS. THANK YOU."

"Just make sure he doesn't try to get himself in trouble." Said Mabel as Soos saluted to her.

"Yes ma'am." Soos then escorted Stan off the front porch and out on the streets and turned left to where they needed to go to work. "You two be careful out there."

"You too, Soos." Said Mabel as she and her brother waved goodbye.

"Well, what are we waiting for?" Said Mabel as she locked the door behind them and walked off to the streets and turned to the opposite side of Soos and Stan to where they needed to go to work.

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On the streets of their neighborhood, you could see houses lined up appropriately on the blocks they were on, unmoved over the years but not untouched, their conditions were just as deplorable as the twin's house, some with more shattered mirrors, others with holes on their roofs, even as far as a few houses missing doors, the streets looked like they haven't been given fresh concrete for years and showed cracks, same went for the sidewalk as well, the streetlamps and road signs were starting to rust, it was poverty all around, poverty in the same neighborhood where the twins had their first and last Summerween, no matter how many times they saw this, the twins were still troubled about their neighborhood, which seemed to get worse every day.

The rest of the town was no better, over the past ten years, the once beautiful forests that surrounded the town were gone, all cut down by the aliens to make room for what they wanted to put in the town. The animals that used to live in those forests were gone as well, either they migrated or they were exterminated, with the ordinary rat or raccoon still around in the residential parts of the town, scavenging food from the trash to survive and trying to avoid becoming target practice for the police.

Few alien structures outside the town had been made for the occupying forces, mostly buildings for the alien soldiers and vehicles, like a barracks and depots, and for other services, the aliens repurposed the human made buildings inside the town for whatever purpose they wanted, and even made their own attachments on the building such as security cameras, attached smart locks on the doors, and even speakers for announcements to be made throughout the town.

To contain its residents and to use as checkpoints and guard posts, the aliens had built large, scaling walls that reached more than 25 feet tall, and were placed at the edges of the town to surround it, with watch towers attaching themselves onto the edges of the walls and the walls themselves to the sides of the surrounding buildings, with large gates that would open for alien convoys to enter. Smaller walls had been placed further inside the town to split it in different sectors for the aliens to manage, and had smaller gates for vehicles used to patrol the area, along with smart shields at the ends of the small walls, which acted as doorways for the alien personal while humans were unable to pass through unless the shields were off.

The twins eventually arrived at one of the small walled checkpoints, attached to the last houses at the end of the residential block of their neighborhood, which led to the town square where they needed to be. A security camera above the doorway watched the twins carefully, observing their every movement as the twins waited patiently, and then as expected, two humanoid figures came out of the smart shield gateway to the twins, one as big as the twins and the other bigger.

The small figure had very similar appearances in that of an average human in size and shape, tending to stand as tall as the average human and has similar skeletal structures as well, but had extra features to it such as four fingers instead of five, its head although as big as a human's and round, has a slightly elongated shape, and its body frame seems to be more slender and flexible then a human's, even though they looked like weight as much as a human.

The taller figure shared some similarities like four fingers and skeletal structure, but looked more different then the smaller figure next to it. It was taller and reached a height of 7 feet instead of the average human height, it had a larger and bulkier build and was more muscular, the skull shape even less rounded and is larger, more oval shaped, and longer in length, giving off an even more inhuman appearance than its smaller variant.

Despite their appearances, the only true facts that humans knew about them were that they came from another world, they looked somewhat different than us, the two different appearances of the alien figures suggests that there are more varieties of their kind, the small ones were called Geckens and the large ones Guanians, and the most prominent detail was that their race were known as Slegs, though whatever a Sleg truly looked like was up to imagination, since their true appearances have never been revealed to the humans.

The two Slegs were covered from head to toe, they wore sage green uniforms, along with black tactical military vests on their torso, which covered the ballistic vests they had on, wore black knee and elbow pads, black leather boots, black tactical gloves, and even a black ballistic helmet for their heads and covered their faces with black tactical gas masks, shaped to fit onto their heads with ease despite their skull shape, on their right arms, they wore arm bands labeled "t243:g02", indicating what town and which sector they are assigned to.

It was quite surprising to say the least that the Sleg soldiers looked a lot like human paramilitary, although their armor is deceivingly durable, since the material they use to make their armor is not known to humans, even their gas masks were made with small pieces of the material so they acted as facial armor, and instead of laser weaponry like many alien stereotypes would have, the Slegs have advanced ballistic weaponry along with their advanced ballistic armor, which also had the appearance of human manufactured weaponry.

The smaller Sleg's standard weapon took the combined appearance of an M4-carbine and G36 assault rifle which was equipped with its own scope, the gun was colored mostly black and looked sleeker than and not as bulky as the human weapons, while the larger Sleg's gun is similar except it larger to accommodate the Sleg's size, both Slegs also had their own pistols that were holstered on their waist belts along with flash bang and frag grenades for more extreme situations, and other various tools they needed, including a handheld scanner that the small Sleg took out.

"Citizens, please show your I.D. cards for passage." Ordered the Gecken Sleg, its voice sounded inhuman due to a built-in vocoder in the masks the Slegs wore, giving the Sleg a very machine-like voice, yet you could tell they sounded stern and assertive when they spoke, giving off an intimidating presence.

Wanting to cause no trouble or delay, the twins handed their I.D. cards to the Sleg, who quickly used the scanner on their cards as it made two beeping sounds for each scan.

"Scans cleared. You are approved for entry." Said the Gecken Sleg, which made the larger Sleg signal to the security camera.

The smart shield then disabled itself, and the two Slegs walked towards the gateway, leading the twins past the gateway as it activated after they passed through. As the two Sleg guards returned to their posts close to the gateway, the twins proceeded to walk through the town square, which has definitely changed over the years.

Instead of the bustling social center it once was, it served as a center for propaganda and fear by the established Sleg police force of the planet, the Civil Security Force or the CSF for short, whose main goal is to protect the civilians that live under the government and to enforce the law to keep the peace. The irony of the CSF is that although they do enforce the law, they don't really protect them and instead use the laws implemented by their government to their advantage to keep the population under control. The CSF mostly use psychological tactics and constant surveillance, hence the abundance of cameras and patrols throughout the town, to find, monitor, and arrest citizens who could potentially challenge the status-quo and authority of the Sleg government, even if they just assume that someone has a single thought of defiance, the person will be punished accordingly to whatever judgment an officer makes, which is also taken advantage of said officers so they are allowed to do anything they want to someone.

Oddly enough, the twins felt safer by the heavily armed CSF checkpoint from earlier than in the more urbanized areas of the town, mostly because the gate guards were more bureaucratically inclined to do their duty to just check I.D. cards and were stuck in one place, rather than the CSF officers who are allowed more freedom to roam all over town wherever they please, and do whatever they want to their chosen victims.

The CSF officers had a more simple appearance and wore a lot less gear than the more heavily armed gate guards, they had smaller tactical vests that still covered the ballistic vest underneath their uniforms, they did not have the armor pads on their knees and elbows, the uniforms themselves were black instead of green, and the officers were armed with pistols, which were colored in a lighter shade of black and similar in appearance to a GLOCK pistol, along with batons instead of the assault rifles and grenades the gate guards had. Other than that, the officers had the rest of the same gear, but a different attitude towards everyone else.

Every day, the twins were always on edge when walking through the town square, making sure to keep up their best behavior, hoping that a CSF officer isn't in the mood to fuck with them, and it was only a week ago when an officer came up to them for a "loyalty check", which was just code for do whatever they tell you to do or get beaten to a bloody pulp.

The twins saw the usual at the town square, civilians walking to work, cameras observing their movements, cops either patrolling or just talking to each other at street corners, and the dozens and dozens of propaganda posters posted on the walls of buildings, with pictures of CSF officers saluting and wording on the bottom part of the posters which said "Protect and serve" or "Keeping the peace."

Dipper was about to scoff at the messages of the posters until Mabel nudged him with her elbow, making Dipper turn his head to ask what was wrong until he saw the reason why she did that by looking at her left across the street.

The twins stopped walking to see a scene unfold before them, one of the civilians who was wearing a black hoodie was spray-painting at an alleyway wall, the spray paint was red and the person appeared to be making what looked like a muffin, only one person they knew would make graffiti like that, Robbie.

They knew Robbie was always kind of a douche and a troublemaker, but they thought either he had balls of steel or he was an idiot for defying the authorities, and the twins were surprised at first when he got busted for disobedience, thinking they would never see him again. But the more they saw him, the more they realized that the only reason he hadn't been shot yet was because the CSF officers just liked using him as a punching bag, making him think that not going to prison meant he was some kind of martyr, which was one of the many psychological tactics the CSF used for citizens, making citizens think in their heads that the CSF were weak when in reality, they still had complete authority, and this time was no different when two CSF officers, both Gecken Slegs, walked up to Robbie as he was spray painting.

One of the officers chuckled in amusement at what he saw. "Look at this one." He said to his partner.

The two officers then walked up behind Robbie, making him turn and jump back, not realizing they were behind him.

"How can I help you on this fine day, officers?" Robbie sarcastically remarked.

"Sir, I need you to put your hands behind your head." Ordered an officer, annoyed at Robbie's wise crack.

"Heh. Cutting to the chase already" Robbie remarked again.

"First warning, hands behind your head. Now." Repeated the officer.

"I'm just trying to be artistic, officer. Nothing wrong with that." Said Robbie, further aggravating the officer.

The officer then took out his baton and pointed at Robbie's face. "Last warning. Hands behind your head or I will be forced to take disciplinary actions."

Robbie, underestimating how quick the officer was to his limit, decided to comply and expected to be taken back to his prison cell he grew so fond of so he could get the beatings over with.

"Fine, fine. As long as you-

Before Robbie could even finish his sentence, the officer swung his baton at his head, knocking Robbie down to his side as he felt a sharp pain across his skull, shocked at how soon the officer was to the beating stages, but in his mind, he thought it was for his martyr cause implanted in his mind.

"You can't stop freedom! You'll never-

The officer just continued to beat Robbie, over and over as he brought down sharp pains down, making Robbie yelp in pain each time, while the other officer just watched the beating continue, letting his partner beat the man for his own amusement and was most likely smiling under his mask. When they were done with their "discipline", the officers casually walked away from the scene, but not before giving him a kick at his chest, leaving behind Robbie groaning in pain, battered and bruised all over, with broken ribs and fresh blood dripping from the back of his head, his skull feeling cracked open, and was struggling to get up but fell down every time due to the immense pain he felt, while everyone walked past him, ignoring him or getting insults from passing CSF officers such as "maggot" and "hairless ape", one officer going as far as to partially take off his mask, just to spit on him while Robbie laid on the ground, begging for someone to help him.

As much as they felt sorry for Robbie and wanted to help despite their past, the twins just walked away, acting like nothing ever happened so they wouldn't risk their lives, knowing well that if they were caught, they would not have the same kind of what was considered as "mercy" as Robbie did, having no desire to be arrested, beaten, tortured, and being sent god knows where for "reeducation", just for acting human.

And so they continued walking, walking to work while trying to not feel guilty, that all this was not their concern, that they should just go along with their day, do their shift, and come straight home without any harm done.

It was just another regular day.

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Disclaimer: I don't own Gravity Falls, but I do own my cruel, fucked up Sleg dictators.