Chapter 26: Fallen From Grace
'Being in a position of power can go to one's head, especially if enough support is given to that person to gain their status. However, if the power is abused, the status is lost as easily as it was gained. After being arrested and thrown in prison, Gideon reflects on how he has fallen from grace in Gravity Falls!'
~(Gideon's P.O.V.)~
I blew it! I had all the power of Gravity Falls in the palm of my hands and I blew it because I let my status as the town's most perfect child psychic go to my head! I don't know what I was thinking, but I guess gaining everyone's trust got to me so I thought I could get away with any and everything.
When I moved to the town of Gravity Falls to expand on my psychic empire, I didn't think my business would go so well, but come to find out, the people in this town were so gullible, they would believe any and everything they were told so I had to take full advantage of the situation! I could have told them I was a supernatural creature and knowing how boring this town is, I know they would believe it! So I took the chance and capitalized on their stupidity all the while they were too stupid to see what was really going on. However, there were two people in this town who were immune to my psychic tricks and the moment I saw that I couldn't exactly swindle them like I was able to do to the rest of the town, my jig was up right then and there! Dipper and Mabel Pines are their names.
Flashback
Having settled into the town of Gravity Falls, the Tent of Telepathy is open for business. Gideon's father, Bud Gleeful, is standing outside of the tent with a bag in his hands, the 'Psychic sack', while inviting the towns' folks to come view Gideon's first show for a fee of course!
"So come on down folks and put your money in Gideon's psychic sack!" Bud invites as numerous customers place their money into sack before entering into the tent. Dipper and Mabel pay their entrance fee and take a seat. While checking out the tent, Dipper now noticing how much the tent hails in comparison to the shack.
"Whoa! This is like a bizarro version of the mystery shack." Dipper points out. "And they even has their own Soos."
The tent's handy man now arrives in the area with he and Soos exchanging hateful glares as Soos munches on an empanada. The lights in the tent then darken with Mabel's excitement for the upcoming show rising.
"It's starting! It's starting!" Mabel happily sings.
"Let's finally see what this monster looks like." Dipper speaks in a deadpan tone.
A spotlight then shines on the curtain as a tall shadow now appears behind it, the crowd gasping in surprise at the sight. The curtain is then pulled apart to reveal a short, tall haired chubby boy in a blue suit.
"Hello America!" The boy now greets to the crowd. "My name is lil' Gideon!"
Clapping his hands together, white doves are then released from the boy's mountain of snow white hair.
"So that's Stan's mortal enemy?" Dipper asks as he cocks an eyebrow.
"But he's so widdle." Mabel cheers, her eyes swelling with happiness.
"Ladies and gentlemen, it is such a gift having you here tonight." Gideon speaks to the crowd. "Such a gift. I have a vision that you will all say 'Aw'."
Turning from the crowd, Gideon then turns back to them with rosy cheeks and the adorable puppy dog eyes. As he said they would, the crowd bursts in the awws for the boy.
"It came true!" Mabel says, her tone full of amazement.
"I'm not impressed." Dipper speaks with disbelief.
"You're impressed." Mabel happily replies.
"Hit it dad." Gideon says to his father.
Bud Gleeful begins playing the piano, the tune to Lil' Ol Me beginning to play. As the song goes into full swing, Gideon begins speaking to the crowd, reading their mind and making predictions as the song continues playing. Now reaching one particular member in the crowd, Mabel Pines, Gideon predicts what her name is with the chocolate haired girl being amazed at him predicting her name, even though it is colorfully displayed on the sweater she is wearing. With the song coming to a close, Gideon walks back to the stage and sings the final tune of his song. With the song over, the crowd cheers wildly for the child psychic as he pants while sweating a small bit from his performance.
"Thank you, thank you!" Gideon replies to the cheering crowd. "You people are the real miracles!"
"Woo! Yah!" Mabel cheers.
With the performance over, everyone begins clearing out of the tent with Dipper and Mabel being the seemingly last of the crowd to exit the tent.
"Man, that kid's an even bigger fraud than Stan." Dipper speaks up, he and Mabel now exiting the tent. "No wonder our uncle is jealous."
"Oh come on." Mabel happily replies. "His dance moves were adorable and did you see his hair? It is like Whoosh!"
"You're too easily impressed." Dipper playfully says to his twin.
"Yeah, Yeah." Mabel laughs as the two begin to playfully bat at each other.
With the two walking off, Gideon then peeks out of the tent at the pair, watching as the two walk out of sight.
End of Flashback
Something about those two got my attention from the moment I laid eyes on them in the crowd. I don't know if it was the fact that I felt they were different or that I fell madly in love with Mabel, but I somehow knew that they couldn't be fooled by my "psychic" scheme. I definitely knew that Dipper Pines was different from all the rest of the towns' folk. Something about him stood out more so than his twin sister. I couldn't quite put my finger on it, but it definitely peaked my interest! I could tell he was hiding something, something that could help me gain ultimate power! While I was interested in getting to know Mabel Pines and doing all I could to make her fall for me the way I fell for her, her brother showing up on a date in which I was expecting my peach dumpling gave me the motivation I needed to investigate him that much more!
Flashback
Having mourned Mabel finding him repulsive and not wanting to go out with him anymore via Dipper and having gotten Toby Determined to make the call to Dipper about his theories about the town, his trap was set to do away with the young pines so he and Mabel can be together uninterrupted. Dipper now arrives at the factory and walks in only to see that the place is deserted.
"Hello?" Dipper calls out in hopes of getting a response.
Not hearing anyone answer his call, Dipper turns to leave when the door suddenly closes in front of him. Banging on the door so to escape, the overhead lights then turn on behind the boy that leads to a lonely arm chair in the middle of the room. Noticing this, the chair now swivels around to reveal Gideon as he strokes the hair of a replica doll of himself.
"Hello friend." Gideon unenthusiastically greets to the young pines.
"Uhhh, Gideon." Dipper rolls his eyes.
"Dipper Pines." Gideon begins as he toys with the doll in front of him. "How long have you been living in this town? A week? Two? Like it here? Enjoying the scenery?"
"What do you want with me man?" Dipper asks in defense.
"Listen carefully boy." Gideon begins, his tone and expression now changing to cynical. "This town has secrets that you couldn't possibly begin to comprehend!"
"Is this about Mabel?" Dipper argues. "I told you she's not into you!"
"Liar!" Gideon shouts in a rage, now grabbing onto his amulet. "You turned her against me! She was my peach dumpling!"
"Uh, are you ok man?" Dipper wonders.
Gideon doesn't reply, but instead, levitates Dipper and roughly throws him into a pile of Lil Gideon merchandise.
"Howdy!" A doll version of Gideon speaks.
"Reading minds isn't all I can do!" Gideon spits.
"But you're a fake!" Dipper screams.
"Oh, tell me Dipper, is this fake?" Gideon replies, now levitating some of his merchandise into the air with Dipper looking on in horror.
End of Flashback
When Mabel showed up to break up with me, my plan to learn Dipper's secrets, make her mine, and then do away with her brother, not necessarily in that order, were ruined. I couldn't be more devastated when she told me she couldn't be my marshmella. I don't believe I cried so much a day in my life, but anyone would cry if they had their hearts broken by the love of their life! Despite all of that, I couldn't leave it at that, I had to learn the secrets that Dipper held, but those same secrets that he held also surrounded the Mystery Shack and that's when I had to go beyond investigating him and investigate the shack itself! In order to do that, I needed to get the deed to the physical building, but I had one thing standing in my way of getting my hands on the deed and that was my arch nemesis, Stanford Pines!
If it weren't for his pesky interruption when I first tried to get my hands on that deed that glorious rainy day, I could have learned those secrets much sooner, but because he did, I had to resort to extreme measures to get my hands on that property!
Flashback
After being chased by Stan from the shack into the rain, Gideon has created an altar in which to summon the dream demon, Bill Cipher. Lighting the last candle on his 'altar', Gideon snuffs out the match and turns back to his book in his chubby hands.
"You think that combination is safe in your mind Stanford?" Gideon says as he reads what is required to summon Bill. "Well, let's see what my new minion has to say about that! Triangulum, entagulum, veneforis dominus ventium, veneforis, venetisorium!"
Finishing the summoning chant, the chubby boy begins grunting as he clutches his stomach with the entire area then turning black and white with the forest creatures' movements coming to crawl and a complete stop. His eyes now glowing a ghostly blue as he falls to his knees while chanting inaudible sentences, Bill is then summoned. Mabel and Soos duck behind the bushes while Gideon shrinks away slightly at the sight of the demon.
"Oh, Oh Gravity Falls! It is good to be back!" Bill begins as he lowers down in front of Gideon. "Name's Bill Cipher and I take it you're some kind of Ventriloquist dummy. Haha, I'm just kidding, I know who you are Gideon."
"W-what are you and how do you know my name?" Gideon speaks in a panic.
"Oh I know lots of things." Bill replies, his body now changing to different colors/sceneries/pictures/cryptic locations. "Lots of things."
"Hey, look what I can do." Bill speaks with excitement.
Now turning to a deer, Bill gestures to the animal. The deer then opens its mouth as its teeth are pulled out and land in Bill's left hand.
"Deer teeth, for you kid." Bill says, now dumping the teeth in Gideon's hands with a laugh.
Gideon gasps and drops the teeth as he turns back to Bill.
"You're insane!" Gideon screams.
"Sure I am, what's your point?" Bill nonchalantly agrees as he gestures for the deer's teeth to be returned to his mouth.
"Listen to me Demon!" Gideon spits. "I have a job for you! I need you to break into the mind of Stanford Pines and steal the combination to his safe!"
"Wait…Stan Pines." Bill speaks as he turns his back to Gideon, his triangular body now changing to images of Stan and the older man's tattoo.
"You know what kid, you convinced me." Bill agrees, now turning back to Gideon. "I'm sold! I'll help you with this and later, you can help me with something I've been working on! We'll work out the details later!"
"Deal!" Gideon happily replies as he extends his hand to Bill to make their deal official. Bill takes it, both their hands engulfed in blue flames as they shake on their deal.
"Well, time to invade Stan's mind!" Bill announces as he lifts into the air. "This should be fun! Remember, reality is an illusion, the universe is a hologram, buy gold, bye!"
The demon now disappears into thin air, the air around the area bending like plexi-glass. Mabel and Soos blink as they gasp along with Gideon who rubs his eyes.
"It worked!" Gideon says as he begins laughing maniacally.
End of Flashback
It was a mistake summoning Bill, especially since he failed to get the code to that safe so I had to resort to dynamite to get that deed! When I had my hands on that deed, I was on top of the world and nothing could bring me down! Nothing! I was finally going to learn the secrets the shack and Dipper both held and for the moment I had it all! I was going to have my own theme park, I finally got my hands on journal '3', and the towns' folk were still against Stanford Pines! That's one dream I didn't want to wake up from, but then a darkness came, a darkness in the form of Dipper and Stan Pines. I was on cloud nine and they kicked me down when I was at my highest! It's just like them to ruin the perfect moment…..
Dipper destroyed my robot and Stan revealed that the pins that allowed free admission to my theme park were really hidden cameras. How else could I keep up my "psychic" game? The people in this town are as dumb as they come so I had to keep playing on their stupidity for as long as I possible could! They were none the wiser about how I knew all their little "secrets", but of course I should have known that sooner or later I would be caught. Considering how much power I had, it never occurred to me until now, especially now that all of that power slipped right through my lil' ol' fingers.
Thanks to Stan and Dipper Pines, I'm now the enemy and since being thrown in prison, a bail bond wasn't even given for my release. I have a trial in a week, the determination for a punishment as to what will be fitting for the crime that I've committed being the center for it all. I don't even think the judge knows what would be a fitting punishment for what I've done, considering I know every little secret he has, including the dirty ones. If only he knew I had those up my sleeve, he'd release me in a heartbeat! Or at least he'd be persuaded to if he doesn't want his sweet widdle wife to know about his lil ol' mistress!
But why go back to the game that got me in here to begin with? Even I have to admit that I was careless so who knows what my fate will be. Thanks to Stan, Dipper, and my own careless, this whole town is against me and after years of being on top, I have officially fallen from grace.
Ok, I just had to write this! After writing the last chapter, this idea came to me with a quickness and since I had little time between everything else in my life, I decided to go ahead and write it. :) Besides, no one ever hears the story from the bad guy's side so I decided to give everything from Gideon's POV. After all, even he has a side to the story and this is it lol!
Also, Behind The mask will be updated by the end of this week with Prophecy's Light being updated next week. Once a detail is smoothed out in chapter 12, it'll be written up and posted :) Sorry for the wait, but trust me, it'll be well worth it. :) So if nothing else,
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