Chapter 2 Charge This

Gravity Falls Thursday November 1st, 2012 4:00 PM

McGucket Mansion

Front Hall

"Ok, McGucket. I'm here. Candy said you wanted wanted me here to help run some tests on Charger." Pacifica yelled after she had let herself in to her family's old mansion. 'It's still weird coming in here and seeing how much he has changed the place in so little time. She has to admit she likes the vines growing up the marble columns, it gives it sort of an ancient Rome feel to the room. Remembering Candy telling her he had transformed the ballroom into his lab she headed back that way.

"Not that way young missy,"Fiddleford called from the top of the main stairway. "I put it's charge station up here."

Pacifica headed up the stairs and quickly realized they were heading to her old room. "Uhm, McGucket, why are we heading to my old bedroom?"

"Don't worry missy, I'm taking you to Charger's charger. Heh, that's pretty funny right there." Mcgucket slapped his knee in reflex to his personal joke.

"I set it up somewhere I figure'd you would be comfortable. That way it wouldn't too much of a hassle on ya." he opened the door and followed her after she went in.

It was weird, the room still looked a lot like it was when she still lived here. There was a bed similar to her old one in the corner and a new bureau near it. There was even a stuffed llama on the bed. The bureau was needed as her former closet was now filled with the CHARGE Units recharging station. No this wasn't weird at all. She finally noticed Candy in a small lab coat with her sleeves rolled up doing something to the Units right hand over on a table next to her former closet.

"Pacifica, it is good to see you my friend," Candy said looking up at her before returning to the gauntlet she was working on.

"Between Mabel and Candy, I was able to at least try to make the room comfortable for you if'n there's ever a reason you need to stay here with the armor. They even picked up a few outfits if'n what you were wearin in the Charge unit gets damaged," McGucket said as he pointed over to the bureau.

She walked over and opened the bureau and was surprised, seeing how it was Mabel and Candy who bought the stuff, "Wait a minute how did the two of them buy it, they're in two different states?" She turned and asked.

Candy turned and answered before McGucket could. "We did video chat over our phones. Mabel remembered some of your favorite designers and brands. she helped me as I did the physical shopping. She even remembered your size."

"Well between the two of you, like you did a good job here." Pacifica said actually meaning the compliment.

"Thank you. Just because I keep my own style mine, does not mean I am out of touch with most popular fashion." Candy said as a way of accepting the compliment and then she turned back to the gauntlet and fiddled a little bit more before saying, "Done." and she reattached the gauntlet to the arm.

"Well hot doggy, I'm guessing it's bein a fine time to get this here test on the way. So climb on in missy." Fiddleford said as he opened up the chest cavity of the armor and gave her a small boost up. Once in he reached up and slid a half collar on her throat. "We realized how silly it sounded having your voice coming out of this robot unit, so I tossed together a voice mod-u-lator," he paused to look at Candy to see if he was pronouncing it right, "that will help disguise your voice so it'll be less likely people will figure out it's you in there."

It actually didn't feel that much different than wearing a silk choker. It felt like it was maybe held up be something similar to dress tape. She grabbed the to command trodes and attached them to her temples. She then slid her arms and legs into their respective control sleeves. Sh closed the door to the cavity and finally pulled down the helmet mask. She realized it wasn't the knights helmet anymore. She went over to her old full length mirror saw it looked like it was a solid mirrored sheet. She also saw they had added an R to the end of the CHARGE written down the left leg. "So I actually get to call it Charger now. Whoa." She said as she realized how well the modulator worked. She sounded like a deeper toned version of Gideon's friend Ghost Eyes.

"Alright we've added a few more features since you took it out on the first run. I've stabilized the anti gravity motors so it'll be a smoother flight." McGucket said to her over the internal headset.

"And I have added new weapons into the gauntlets. The palm of the left gauntlet has technology we copied from Mr Ford's magnet gun, we were able to create an isolated Electro Magnetic Pulse beam." Candy started to explain what she was working on when they had arrived, "Do not worry, the armor in insulated against the effects of the beam. You may also be able to give the armor a temporary recharge by activating the pulse while holding on to a high powered live wire."

"Wait, what? You want me to grab a live wire on the chance it could recharge the armor if needed." Pacifica said still somewhat in awe of her armored voice.

"I did not say you had to, I was explaining a possible feature of the armor. There is also an electric blast that is able to be fired from that hand, Mr McGucket calls it a Tesla Blast. I prefer to think of it as a wireless stun gun." Candy adjusted her glasses as she went to continue, "In the controls for the right gauntlet there is a three way switch. Turned to the positive position and fired, it causes the gauntlet to release a light beam that will cause what ever is exposed to it to grow. Turned to the negative position and fired, it causes the light beam to shrink whatever it hits. Left in the neutral position, it is a flashlight." Candy had a little smirk at that last one.

"Well do you just want me to fly around your back yard a bit to test everything out?", Pacifica asked, "I could run it trough my old pony trail to test it out over different environments."

"Well, great googly-moogly. That's a great idea, I was just gonna have you fly around the front hall." McGucket said as he slapped his head.

"Hey, Pacifica. You there?" she heard Tambry over the comm.

"This is Charger, go for it." Pacifica responded getting into the role.

"I'm calling to let you know there a fire going on at your dad's office building at the plant." Tambry said recognizing the name Pacifica had picked for herself in the armor. "Most of the office workers have been accounted for but your dad isn't one of them. Reports over the scanner say it's a former employee with a flamethrower causing the fire. Your dad really knows how to pick them doesn't he?"

"Forget the backyard run guys, this is gonna be a real field test." Pacifica said as she opened the window and flew out.

Northwest Mudflaps

Executive Office

"Come out Preston, I know you are in here some where." Said a man dress in full digital camouflage, an O2 re-breather mask, and WWII flamethrower on his back. "You think just because you made some bad investments at the end of the summer, it would be ok to just fire anybody near retirement age on any trumped up reason so you wouldn't even have to pay us any type of severance package or unemployment benefits."

He takes aim at the mahogany desk and let loose with a blast of fire. "Hey Preston, you fired me, so I'm gonna fire you. Hehehe."

Suddenly the window behind him shatters and in flies the electron blue colored armor of Charger, "I suggest you stand down citizen. You may have a legitimate grip against this company but this is no way to go about settling it." Inside the armor Pacifica is running every scan she can in order to find her father. Finally she finds a false wall and sees a human heat signature in one of her father's famous panic rooms. Realizing the burning wooden desk was the biggest fire hazard, besides the guy with the flame thrower. She flicked the switch to the negative side and fired a beam shrinking the burning desk down til it was no bigger than an ember.

"Now citizen I'm going to ask you to please stand down and surrender, before I have to get physical," Charger said staring down the man who is threatening her father.

"And what are you supposed to be, one of those Offender guys from the movies?" he said with what sounded like a smile in his voice. "Don't you remember even Copper-man's armor melted." and he fired the flame thrower right at her.

Inside the armor Pacifica flinched as she expected to feel at least some heat, but the suits coolant system was fighting it perfectly. She lifted up her left hand and fired off the EMP beam hoping to knock out what ever electronics were in the gun. While that didn't the was she planned it did result in the flamethrower and the back pack being pulled towards her, so she did the next best thing and swung a right hook into the assailant knocking him out. Unhooking the backpack off of the gentleman she then tied the hose into a knot before going over and knocking on the false wall.

"Mr Northwest, it is safe to come out. The assailant has been neutralized." Charger said as she backed away from the door. She picked up ex-employee and his flame thrower and flew back out the window before dropping in front of Blubbs & Durland and handed off the prisoner and his weapon. "This man may need some mental help. He said he was an ex-employee released in the last round of cutbacks. Mr Northwest's office has a camera in it that should have enough evidence on it for a conviction."

She then turned to the fire fighters and said, "Most of the fire seems to have done minimal structural damage. You should find Mr Northwest in his office on the third floor, in the back left corner is a panic room if he hasn't gotten out of it by the time you get up to him." and then she takes off and takes a wide arch before heading in a back way to the McGucket property.

As she flies through the open window to her old room, "Oh, man. That was, like, awesome."

And here we have Pacifica's second trip out in her updated armor, The CHARGER. I hope everyone is having fun with this series.

Again I'd like to give a shout out to EZB, SuperGroverAway, ddp456, & Popcat131. It was their stories that made me want to get back into writing and to want to start with Gravity Falls. Please check out their stories if you haven't already.

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