It's been two days since the call. Mabel hasn't got any good sleep since then. The same could also be said to Pacifica, as her friend's worries also go wildly through her. The two are sitting at the kitchen, not knowing what to expect for the next day. But then, their thoughts were interrupted by the sound of the usual metal clanking the mailbox makes. Mabel decided to stand up and check it out herself, she opens her front door and opens up her mail, to find a package with a note attached to it, she opens up the note without much of optimism, until she reads the note.
From Dipper,
Morning! Guess that's the time this package should arrive after I send it! If this package arrives means I'm currently in Sacramento City, a bit much half way to go on my way there!
Inside the package, is a Pulserator, I modified it from the secret society's memory eraser, if you remember, but this gizmo isn't for erasing memories, they detect creature whereabouts all around you, adding that extra safety…
This is device also to warn you when there's any hostile creature around. This includes the gnomes as I did register them hostile. So make sure you check it once in a while! But don't use it much to trace other common things, like a butterfly for example (I know you would use it for that anyways)
Alright guess that's all that I can say right now… Can't wait to see you sis!
See ya tomorrow night! Hopefully.. –Dipper
Mabel smiles deeply. Even when he's not here, he still tries to keep a lookout for me.. She thought of her brother, which confuses Pacifica why she is taking her time outside, she decided to check on her friend. As she pokes her head out of the door, she sees her friend staring into a note from the newly arrived package "Hey! What's taking you long?" a bit worried that the mail bringing bad news. Mabel turns around while wiping small tear sneaking out of the edge of her eyes. "Oh.. sorry for the long wait, you should come take a look at this!" Pacifica came over to find out who is from, Mabel passed her the note with the package and she read it to find herself surprise, to find out the package is a machine, and it's from her longtime ago crush, which apparently is still him until up to that moment. Though the thought of having a weird machine to detect 'creatures' are a bit weird, but when she's thought of what she has faced with the twins, nothing really is as weird as she ever faced, mini golf balls waging war against each other, a ghost of a betrayed lumberjack. Yup she's seen it all, but she still hasn't catch up on why they need it here.
"Wait, we're not in that town anymore, why would we need that thingy anyway?" Mabel realized she hasn't told her friend of what her brother's research have brought result to. "Let's go back inside and I'll explain.." the two went back in, shut the door, and have a serious conversation at the kitchen table. Mabel starts with explaining the situation besides Jenna's kidnapping. "So a while ago, when he sent me the letter where he would be visiting, he made a P.S that some gnomes, have manage to migrate all the way around this city, and based on my first experience with those gnomes, they aren't the most pleasant of creatures you would like to find!" Pacifica was made confused, as the most familiar she knows is the one she has in her front yard for no reason, yet she also doesn't remember ever buying one, "Why should we be worried? Aren't gnomes like all small, and cute like that? I'm pretty sure a shovel or broom would've taken care of one.."
Yet she got an unexpected reaction from her friend. "Yeah, I thought of the same thing at first, but turns out, those gnomes are trying to find a new queen for quietly the one thousands of them, and back at Gravity Falls, they tried to kidnap me and forcefully marry me to make me their new queen! Good thing Dipper had the journal and manages to save me from a relationship I wouldn't want to go through." She explained thoroughly. Pacifica fell into disbelief "Hold on, they tried marrying a human instead of another gnome? How were they created at the first place?" Mabel just shrugged her shoulders, "I'm pretty sure even the author of those three journals, don't know how they got there at the first place! Dipper doesn't know either, and probably he's not interested on finding out.." they went to the living room to unveil what sort of machinery Dipper has given to her. As they open it, a small golden shine starts peering through the box, unveiling a device which Pacifica first said "Wow, it looks like a hairdryer if you asked me.."
Mabel, who had seen a similar machine with similar design, wasn't surprised of how it looks, but quietly curious to find out what it does. She found an instruction left by her brother on the side of the package and starts reading aloud. "Alright, so to activate this thing, there's an on and off switch located right under the handle…" She feels around the underside of the device, finding a switch and without further warning just switch's it on, causing the device to emit a big blue transparent wave which spreads around until it's no longer visible, accompanied by the sound of the device turning on, the two felt small shakes around the house as if something big has brushed asides of it, but then assumed that it was also the effects of the Pulserator being activated.
Pacifica was still a bit caught off guard "Mabel! You should've told me that you're about to turn that thing on.. It gave me a jump you know.." Her friend just shrugs her shoulders "Welp… sorry about that, was a bit too excited I guess.." she gave her a smile which was then replied by another, and decided to check the Pulserator even further, Pacifica though, still can't take her mind off the fact that it looks somewhat similar to that of a hairdryer "Soo.. what does this Pulsy thing do again?" Mabel checks the instruction once again "Soon after activation, it'll scan the vicinity around you and starts activating a trace, once creatures have been detected they are separated into three different categories that is, red for hostile, blue for friendly, and green for a neutral creature" She checks on her radar screen to search if there's anything hostile anywhere near the house, in which to her relieve, she found none of it. She continues to read another part of this instruction, with the title of the instruction "How to use it for defense" she took a peek at it and continues reading it out loud "To use it's invisi-force, defense only that is. The glyph button in the back of the machine must be set in order to determine the force of the waves that will repel the hostile force, there's also an option to set a safe range to not be hit by the waves, say within the range of a meter or two, the force would not occur, use this option if you have allies near you and if the hostile force is human you can target them by simply aiming the Pulserator at the hostile force. The normal blast will not affect humans, so you better be quick to decide which mode to choose and when to blast it. Above all us it with care! -Dipper"
Interested by the device and what it can do, she let's a small warning to Pacifica "Better stand back a bit.." Mabel starts aiming it at her pet pig, Waddles who oinks in confusion of what it's carer is about to do to him, Mabel made sure she sets the force to a superb minimum of zero point one and then prepares to blast it. She made a countdown "one...two...THREE!" she pulls the trigger, finding the device pulsating a blue ray which shot a thunder-like wave towards her pet pig which to the smallest set of force, only manage to push the pig until it sits on it's hind legs, yet still manages to impress Mabel and amazes Pacifica.
Waddles seems a bit confused, not feeling anything touching him yet feeling a force pushing him back, he let's out a big "Oink!" as if he's saying "What just happened?" apparently the two can see his confusion which made him act funny that made them laugh.
They tried to figure out what else the device can do, but couldn't find any other way to utilize it. Mabel then realizes that it could be the device to help them face whoever it is keeping Jenna hostage the next day, Pacifica on the other hand, wasn't too sure about it "Didn't that guy told you to not bring any weapons? What if he catches you bringing it?" But Mabel was two steps ahead "Don't worry, I'll just tell him that it's a safety precaution! Besides, if he was worried about his safety, aren't we suppose to worry about ours too?" Pacifica was still not sure, but decided to go along, and gave Mabel an agreeing nod. "Great! We have one part of the plan... If only we knew what we're up against. Suddenly, an idea struck over Pacifica's mind. "Why not we visit that place this evening? That way we can figure out the escape route from the place where we are meeting!" This time, Mabel is the one unsure "But I don't even know those parts of the forest, I rarely have been there and I wouldn't want to get lost" in a slow tone. But Pacifica remains adamant of her decision "It's alright! We can get a map and that Pulsy thing can keep us away from weird creatures that want's to attack us" Taking it to thought, Mabel eventually agrees to her suggestion, and plans to leave at the evening to get the survey going.
Later on in the evening...
A cold breezy air surrounds the two girls who just arrived in front of a big park entrance. They past through the entrance to find a vast, big network of woods seemingly lining up tightly, preventing them to see afar inside. The two immediately felt cold, with Mabel scowling "Well, I didn't thought it would be a bit more colder here.." apparently her friend wasn't expecting the same, "Yeah, I never really been here before, but this is a bit more chilly than I expected" the unexpected chilly air, made them move a bit slower and tighten their thin jackets. As their walking around in the park, they examine the map which they got from the operational house of the park.
"Okay, seems like the small hut we're looking for is located around this thick forest" Mabel says, pointing to an area which the map refers as "Deep Unknown" which signals to Pacifica that no one knew exactly what is waiting there. "Whoa I thought this whole thing is already explored, if that hut is located there, it could be a dangerous path Mabel! We're gonna need more help if we are to go in to this part of the forest or at least more tools.." but Mabel just wondered "But who? Who can we trust to come along this journey? I don't want to get anyone to think that we are crazy!" Pacifica then stopped her thoughts "Oh yeah you're right... Who would go on this trip full of weird stuff? Pretty sure even that crazy old dude back in the town would not go.."
"Oh you mean Old Man McGucket? He actually came with the gang when we discover the secret society there, we found his memory back! He turned out to be an incredibly smart technician! and scientist as well!" Mabel explained, Pacifica was kind of shock by the story "Well, it can get any weirder than that!" when suddenly, the leaves on the trees around started shaking rapidly, leaving the two girls clutching at each other, Mabel then stepped on to something hard which is buried under the fallen leaves. When she cleared the leaves she read the sign "You have entered the Deep Unknown, BEWARE! No one has ever came out of ever without their minds twisted!" she looked at the sign and shows it to Pacifica, which instantly alerted her guard.
"Alright Mabel, we gotta look out for weird movements and stuff like that, keep your eyes wiiide open!" she warned, Mabel just laughs it off "Relax sister! You're starting to sound like my brother, plus you forgot the easy way!" she says while pulling out the Pulserator out of her bag. Listening to that, Pacifica just blushes and stammered out "Oh yeah, we got that thing..."
Mabel then turns on the device and waits for it until it sends out a huge transparent wave, which indicates that it has scanned the area around them and can trace any creature there is, she looks down to it's radar screen to find multiple blue and green colors flickering in response of the scan, Pacifica then asks "Any sign of a red dot yet?" Mabel looked back down to the radar with hopes of there is none, in which to her relieve, there is none of the red ones "None of them! So far..." she still remembers to keep her lookout state prepared in case of sudden attacks.
The two kept on walking forward, deeper and deeper into the forest, when suddenly a large wave of wind starts occurs, almost dragging both of them along the wind waves. They were confused of what has caused the wind to suddenly shift, until a large thunder struck around the area's of the forest, leaving the two staggered of what is happening around them, even though they were not far into the deep parts of the forest, they were already terrified. "Wow this place is really creepy.. No wonder anyone has never return without being insane first.." Pacifica stammers out. They were then surprised with a beeping sound from the Pulserator which instantly alerts Mabel "Hold on, this thing found something, I think.." as both of them peeked into the radar, they felt frozen when they saw one, very bright, red spot placed directly at their left side.
Fearing the worst, the two turned very slowly to their left, with their eyes half-shut, they open their eyes not knowing what is standing right in front of them. To find... Nothing. They looked back to the radar screen, to show that the red spot is directly in front of them, which they saw nothing. But Mabel had a hunch "Unless, whatever it is.. It is right..." she reaches out to the bush right in front of her, Pacifica closes her eyes again expecting the worst, and as Mabel removes the bush, she scream "HERE! Wait what!?.." Pacifica opens her eyes to see her friend's face plastered with an annoyed look while saying "Oh great! YOU again!" She stood up and looked down to where Mabel is looking to find a creature, with a pointy red hat, a thick beard going down around his chin, and very small in size, she recognizes what the creature is "Wait a gnome? I was expecting a big scorpion or something like that.. Not..THIS" with an annoyed tone, Mabel just says "THIS is as bad as it gets!"
Mabel then just picks up the gnome, who appears to be awoken from his sleep "Hey..HEY! PUT ME DOWN THIS INSTANT! THIS IS THE HIGHEST LEVEL OF DISRESPECT YOU CAN GIVE TO A GNOME!" Mabel just rolls her eyes and says "Alright quit it Jeff! Do you even remember me after all these years?" the gnome apparently named Jeff starts thinking "Hold on.. Very shiny clothing, very VERY long hair..., and superbly beautiful as well, hmm... fitting for a queen.. Wait! Is it really youuu...?" he gave a sharp look towards the girl picking him up, we she replies with not really a stare, but more like a glare. He then remembers after quite the thinking "Aaah yes, our future Queen, wait I mean to-be Queen, Mabel!" Pacifica was fazed by the gnomes statement "Wait you're their queen?" Mabel just steps forward and gets her face closer to Jeff's "Listen Jeff! I do not want to be your queen alright!? It's bad enough that my friend has been kidnapped, I have to meet up with gnomes again! OK!? Just stay away from our way!" she prepares herself to throw of the gnome, like she once did with a leaf blower, only this time, she was going to use the Pulserator, she pulls the device out pointing it towards Jeff, setting it's power to half the max and aims at an angle.
Jeff knew what she was about to do, then frantically tries to reason with her "Wait, wait, wait hold on! It wasn't entirely my desire okay! Some dude promised the gnomes a new queen if we help him find you!" Mabel stopped doing what she was doing and lowers the gnome from her hold, "Who! Who is it!? Tell me where he is!" she demanded, but the gnome won't budge "Promise me marriage and a big kiss!" he demanded as well. By then the Pulserator has gone fully charged, and Mabel didn't seem to care of her request "Suit yourself" she puts the gnomes back into an angle an prepares to fire as gnome starts to squirm with panic. "Wait hold on, please, NOOOOOOOOOO!" Mabel pulls the trigger and sets the gnome flying faraway into the forest, while listening to his scream "THIS WON'T BE THE LAST OF MEEE!" as his screaming fades, the two looked to each other and just starts laughing, with still Pacifica not expecting what she just saw "Wow a gnome? How did you two even met?" Mabel started to explain "Well it is a long story.." but her story was cut by a huge, echoing scream "GNOMES OF THE FOREST, ASSEMBLE!"
Pacifica just froze in fear "That can't be good" as soon as she finished, a huge thump shakes the ground and a very fast, beeping sound can be heard coming from the Pulserator as Mabel looks down to the device, she sees a huge red dot coming from right in front of them, without a second to lose, she tells Pacifica "RUN!" As they started running, the trees previously standing tall in front of them instantly collapse as huge footsteps can be heard with a big roar following. Without a clue of what's going on Pacifica just asks frantically "What is that thing!" while running away, Mabel tries explaining "This what happens if gnomes get really mad! They become.." she didn't need to finish her sentence as when they looked back, a sigh of a huge gnome with Jeff on top, comes running on to the them, in reflex Pacifica just screamed "GIANT GNOME MONSTER THING!" and they continued running, dodging all the trees the gnome's are throwing at them.
They were dodging just fine until the gnome monster took a bigger tree and threw it right at their path, causing it a hard land and shaking the ground greatly around it. This caused both of them to trip and without a notice they fell down to a gorge, while Pacifica fell hard until she passed out, Mabel kept on rolling until her head hits a rock.
As her vision is fading, she saw the enormous shadow of the gnome monster coming up near them, while she looks at Pacifica who has passed out, she softly calls for help "Help... help..." but it was no use, she knew no one could hear her, and as a last desperate attempt she calls out in her weakest voice "Dipper..." and her vision turns absolutely black.
Meanwhile, somewhere miles away in distance and height..
A young man is sitting on his chair, reading through a book that seemed to have been stored forever with it's cover having a gold-labeled hand with six-fingers and a number three etched in the middle of it, the man felt a pang in his mind and heart, which signals to him that, Something bad just happened... his face went serious and he took his eyes of his book, another man presumably older than him noticed his behavior and asks out "Hey dude, you okay there? The plane ain't making you queasy is it?"
The young man just stood up, and a girl also presumably older than the young man got a bit worried "Whoa, are you okay? Need to go to the bathroom?" the young man stayed silent, his expression grew even more serious, finally the girl snapped him out "Dipper! Are you alright?" The man's expression grew still, and he just says "We need to get there faster"
Welp, cliffhanger! Sorry for the lateness, apparently I had a few more things in mind for the story, soo I had to change it up which makes more time used up! But next two chapter should be up in a week! I'm superbly excited to write down the next ones to come! Once again sorry and if you have any feedback or suggestion feel free to leave a review, it'll help me out a lot! Peace! :D