Chapter 4: Versus Mabel Part I
'Do you ever wonder what a mirror image of yourself would be like? Would that person that you see be the exact copy of you inside and out?'
"But you promised Dipper!" Mabel whines as she watches her brother gather supplies to be placed into his backpack. "You said you'd solve that mystery tomorrow and play Candy Land with me!"
"I'm sorry Mabel, but I have to solve this mystery today." Dipper replies as he begins packing his supplies into his backpack. "If I don't solve it today, I may never get another chance to do this again. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity!"
"You will see another giant eyeball in this lifetime Dipper!" Mabel continues. "You said today would strictly be our day to hang out together! I want my time that you promised me Dipper!"
"Mabel, please!" Dipper sternly says to his sister, now turning to her. "I know what I said, but I have been looking to solve this mystery since I found my journal. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity to find this creature, get pictures for proof, and add this to my list of solved mysteries. I promise that once I return from locating this creature, I will come back and play candy land with you ok?"
"Yea and then another mystery will come up behind that." Mabel angrily mumbles to herself as she takes a seat on her bed.
"How about this." Dipper begins as he places his backpack on his back. "How about you come and solve the mystery with me? That way you'll have the time I promised you and we'll get to solve one great mystery all in one. How about it?"
"No thank you." Mabel sadly replies. "You go on ahead, I'll just stay here."
Seeing the sad expression on his sister's face, Dipper approaches Mabel and hugs her.
"I'm sorry for breaking my promise Mabel and that this was so sudden." Dipper whispers to her. "I promise that once I come back, you'll have my complete undivided attention. We'll play Candy Land, Cards, whatever you wish ok?"
Mabel sadly nods as she lightly returns the hug. Releasing Mabel, Dipper flashes her a smile and makes his way out of the room, now on his way to solve the mystery that he's been itching to solve since the start of the summer. Having watched her twin exit the room, Mabel sadly sighs.
"Stupid mysteries and stupid Dipper." Mabel mumbles. "Every time we make plans to hang out, one of those mysteries always has to get in the way! As much as I love solving those with him, he promised me that we would hang out today, but no, he couldn't even do that! Some stupid giant eyeball was more important than me!"
Waddles now enters the room and notices Mabel sitting on her bed with a sad expression on her face. Making his way over to her, Waddles now climbs on the bed and cuddles up next to Mabel. Having not noticed Waddles enter the room and feeling something rubbing against her left arm, Mabel turns to her left and spots Waddles rubbing against her arm. Seeing him brings a small smile to her face.
"Hi boy." Mabel greets to her pet, now petting him. "I didn't notice you come in. At least you won't leave me right?"
Waddles oinks with his oinks forming the words to Mabel: No Mabel.
"You're such a good pet." Mabel says, picking Waddles up and placing him in her lap. "I wish you could play Candy Land with me. I bet you'd win every game wouldn't you boy?"
Waddles rubs against Mabel's chin with Mabel laughing at Waddles show of affection.
"You know Waddles." Mabel begins. "I wish I had a sister, another twin who is just like me so that way when Dipper is too busy to hang out with me, I could have someone to hang out with instead of waiting on him to come back. While I wish Dipper didn't have to solve that mystery today, it would be nice to have a sister to play with when he breaks his promises like today."
Suddenly, an idea now comes to the chocolate haired girl with a smile forming and her sad expression completely disappearing.
"Waddles, I just came up with the perfect idea!" Mabel nearly screams to her pig with excitement. "Dipper has been able to make copies of himself whenever he needed to impress Wendy, so why not do what he did and make myself a sister? After all, she'll be serving the same purpose as Dipper's copies and that will be to hang out with me! What do you think boy?"
Waddles oinks in agreement with Mabel.
"I knew you'd agree with me!" Mabel says with her excitement spilling over. "And I know the exact place and thing to make my very own sister! However, I may have to distract gruncle Stan incase he suspects anything."
Immediately turning her attention to the nightstand, Mabel spots the instructions to her Candy Land game. Grinning, she grabs them and looks them over.
"Perfect." Mabel says. "Now it's time to go meet my new sister. Let's go boy."
Making her way out of the room, Mabel and Waddles quickly makes their way to Stanford's office. Entering the office, Mabel notices that Stanford is nowhere to be found.
"Great, he's not here." Mabel cheers. "Now's my chance!"
"Now's your chance what?" Stanford's voice speaks to the right of the girl.
Having heard her great uncle speak to her, Mabel now turns to the older man and notices him entering the office. A nervous smile finds its way onto her face.
"Um, now's my chance to make a copy of my Candy Land game instructions." Mabel says, holding the instruction pamphlet up in front of her. "I need to make a copy so that Dipper will have a set for when we play the game later."
"Is that all?" Stanford asks, cocking an eyebrow. "Just refill the paper tray when you're done. I think there are three sheets left in there."
"You got it gruncle Stan." Mabel smiles.
With that, Stanford now leaves the office. Placing the instructions on the table next to the copier, Mabel flips the top of the printer open and jumps on the platform. Smiling wide, Mabel presses the copy button as a scan of her begins. With the scan of her now complete, the results appears in the results tray just as Mabel jumps off the printer. Flipping the lid down, Mabel grabs the sheet and places it on the floor as an exact replica of her emerges from the paper.
"It worked!" Mabel cheers. "Waddles it worked! I now have a sister!"
The copy looks herself over and now turns to Mabel.
"Hi, my name is Mabel." Mabel greets to her copy. "And this is my pet Waddles."
The copy briefly turns to Waddles and then turns back to Mabel.
"Let me repeat that." Mabel corrects herself. "This is Waddles. I won him at the mystery fair not too long ago."
"I know." The replica speaks up. "When you and Dipper went back in time and you won him over and over, that was so cool! That is until Pacifica won him, but when Dipper saw how sad you were, he decided to correct things and you had Waddles back!"
"YAY! You remember that too!" Mabel cheers. "Now it's time I gave you a name. Hmm, let me think."
Looking her replica over, Mabel begins thinking of a name to give her copy. It can't be just any name, but a good name that suits her.
"It would be awkward to name you Mabel 2, so that won't work." Mabel continues thinking. "And I can't name you my last name because that would be too weird."
"Definitely not those two." The replica replies.
As Mabel continues thinking of a name for her replica, Waddles now looks between the two girls, trying to figure out which is his Mabel thanks to the close resemblance of the two. Continuing to think, a name now comes to the sweater wearer.
"Catherine!" Mabel and the replica say in unison.
"Your name will be Catherine." Mabel smiles. "I've always loved that name so hi Catherine, my new twin sister!"
"I love that name too." The replica, now known as Catherine speaks up. "That is what you wish you were named instead of Mabel."
"I KNOW!" Mabel nearly screams with happiness.
Bubbling over with excitement, Mabel and Catherine now engulf each other in a death grip of a hug.
"I now have a twin sister!" Mabel nearly screams, now releasing Catherine. "We also have a twin brother named Dipper, but you'll meet him later. Come on Catherine, we have lots to talk about and games to play!
"Candy Land is my favorite game!" Catherine reveals. "I just love the candy cane ladders!"
"Me too!" Mabel replies. "I especially love the peppermint pin wheels and the peanut brittle roads! I wish it were real candy and peanut brittle so I can eat it!"
"Let's go play!" Catherine says, now grabbing Mabel's hand and running out of the office with her.
Forest
Having traveled deep into the forest, Dipper is keeping a very sharp eye on his surroundings and with his fully loaded camera in hand, he is determined to take a picture for Mabel's scrapbook to commemorate yet another mystery that was successfully solved.
"I hope I didn't make a wrong turn when following the directions to find this creature." Dipper says to himself as he continues walking through the forest. "The journal said to take a right at the crystal growing grounds, then make another right at the forest clearing, and then keep straight until I see the tree with the moss growing to the left. Behind that tree is a dark and cold area where I am surely going to run into-"
Now looking ahead of him, Dipper's movements come to a screeching halt with his eyes widening at what he sees in front of him.
"The giant eyeball." Dipper whispers.
Surely enough, Dipper is now facing the giant eyeball that his journal spoke of. Sitting within the dark and cold space of the forest, the eyeball has its eyelid closed and appears to be sleeping. It appears to be floating as well.
"Oh man, Mabel will never believe this when I show her the pictures!" Dipper silently cheers, now bringing his camera up to his right eye to begin his photo shooting. However, there is one thing that would have been a good idea for him to check before taking his pictures…..
Pressing the shudder button, the flash goes off along with his picture being taken. The flash of the camera has gotten the attention of both Dipper and the giant eyeball.
"Oh man, I should have made sure the flash was off before doing that!" Dipper silently scolds himself. "I hope that didn't disturb it and know that I was responsible for that."
The eyelid of the eyeball now opens with the eyeball turning to Dipper. Seeing the eyeball staring directly at him, Dipper has lost his motivation to move a muscle. Moving from its comfort zone of the dark cold space, the eye now approaches Dipper with its eyelid forming the emotion of anger/irritation/aggravation.
"You know I am really sorry for that." Dipper nervously says to the eyeball that is now just inches from his own face. "I should have checked the flash before doing that. Better yet, I should have gotten permission from you before doing any flash photography. So pals?"
The eyeball continues to glare at Dipper with Dipper still not being able to allow himself to move, not even an inch.
"It's a good thing Mabel did the laundry yesterday because I'm going to really need to change my shorts when I get home!" Dipper mentally says to himself.
Mystery Shack (Attic)
"I win!" Catherine shouts, now moving her peppermint player piece to the END area of the game. "Now that completely ties us."
"Yep, it sure does." Mabel replies as she writes her and Catherine's scores down on the score pad. "So you want to go again?"
"Nah, let's play cards." Catherine requests. "And do you know what card game I want to play?"
3, 2, 1….
"Spades!" Both girls say in unison.
"Alright." Mabel replies with a nod. "The cards are downstairs so I'll run right down, get them, and be right back. It's so good to have a sister!"
Turning on her heels, Mabel now exits the room. Catherine's happy expression now changes to a dark and devious one.
"Yes, it is good to have you as a sister too." Catherine begins. "But clearly, there can only be one Mabel Pines and that one will be me!"
With a devious grin appearing, Catherine now turns to Waddles. Noticing the evil expression on the girl's face, Waddles begins backing away from Catherine.
"I almost forgot about you." Catherine says, now approaching the pig. "Listen to me breakfast bacon! I know how close you and Mabel are and I won't have you getting involved in and ruining what I am planning! So I'm going to need you to come with me!"
With Waddles continuing to back away from Catherine, the replica now grabs the pig forcefully and drags him out of the room. Reaching the blue chest at the end of the hall, Catherine opens it with one hand while holding the pig tightly with the other. Despite the pig's squirming and squealing to get away from the girl, Catherine forcefully places Waddles inside the chest.
"Bye bye piggy." Catherine hatefully says to the pig.
Smirking, Catherine now slams the lid of the chest shut. Looking around for a reinforcement to keep the lid closed in the absence of the lock, Catherine now spots a box. Quickly grabbing the box, Catherine discovers the box to be heavy and perfect at keeping Waddles locked away and out of her way. Placing the box on top of the chest, Catherine dusts her hands off.
"That'll hold him." Catherine smirks as she re-enters the room. "Now it's time to become the true Mabel Pines while something accidently happens to the original."
"I found the cards." Mabel's cheerful voice speaks as she now enters the room. "It took some time to find due to gruncle Stan not cleaning up the den, but here they are!"
"Great!" Catherine cheers, her expression quickly lightening up as she takes a seat on the floor. "I call first deal!"
"No fair, I was going to call first deal." Mabel laughs as she takes a seat on the floor in front of Catherine. "But since you are me, then technically I am calling first deal!"
Shuffling the deck in a unique manner, Mabel now distributes the cards between her and Catherine. With both sides dealt, Mabel begins checking her cards as is Catherine.
Feeling a certain emptiness in the room, Mabel looks around the room for Waddles.
"Hey, have you seen Waddles?" Mabel asks to her replica. "He was in here when I left."
"Oh he's outside." Catherine replies with a smile. "He wanted to go out so I walked him downstairs and let him out on the porch."
"It's about time for his daily outing anyway." Mabel replies, still looking at her cards. "Normally he goes without me, but it's a good thing you went with him. You're the greatest sister ever Catherine."
With Mabel smiling behind her cards, Catherine doesn't respond as behind her cards is the smile of the devil. If only Mabel knew what was being concealed by that copy of her sweet face….
TBC…
I know, I know, not a one-shot featuring Tyrone/Mabel or DipperxWendy but a two-part story suggested by Exoshon13. Exoshon13, this one is for you and I hope you like it! For everyone else, I hope you like it as well! Part II should be out soon, hopefully before Christmas. If not by then, then definitely before New Years. With Christmas being Tuesday, be sure to check out my Christmas story, Merry Christmas Mabel! That is my gift to you all!
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