Within an airport in the city of Paris, we find a set of twins, both about five feet tall, give or take a millimeter or two, one animatedly bouncing about in a rather well-crafted seafoam green sweater with an Eiffel tower upon the center, her knee length skirt somehow not flying up when she jumps, talking about how they were actually in Paris, while the other just smiled as he watched, correcting her when she got a fact wrong.
Dipper Pines, having upgraded from his vest and shorts to a familiar looking trench coat and red jeans, had several belts crisscrossing his black t-shirt, sighed as he stopped Mabel from bouncing towards an unsuspecting boy, who moments later had a girl run into his arms, causing her to pout. The 15-year-old still hadn't found her true love, and after last year, stopped looking for boys during their summer stays at Gravity falls.
"Mabel, we are here for a reason you know, business before pleasure and all that."
Mabel groaned, pouting at her overachiever of a brother. "Pacifica would understand, and maybe even encourage me to find love in the very city of said feeling Dippy-Dop."
Dipper sighed once more, grabbing a backpack off the luggage belt, along with a couple other regular travel bags, before he began to walk outside, Mabel grabbing a pet carrier before following. They are greeted by an awaiting gentleman in a tux holding a professionally made sign with their family name on it. "Pacifica said that she was on a deadline for this project of hers, and she needed... actually she said she needed my help, you however wouldn't let her off the phone till she also paid for you to come."
Mabel poked his cheek several times as she spoke with a slight smirk. "As if you would have left me behind, face it bro, we are a package deal. Heck I even rejected one boy because he tried to get me to drop our twin night, saying it was too weird. Like spending time with my best friend one day a week, every week is weird."
Dipper sighed as they stepped into the limo. "It leads people to think there is more to our relationship than there actually is, I have always warned you about that. Back on topic though, Pacifica paid for our trip here, so we owe it to her to complete the task she needed us for, before we do anything else."
Mabel smiled as she shrugged. "Well, we have a bit of time before we have to go anywhere, maybe after seeing my awesome and rad designer skillz, they will ask me to join in their fancy Frankie Depot."
Dipper just smiled. "Its called Francoise Dupont."
Mabel just giggled and shrugged.
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=With Pacifica=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Pacifica was watching Chloe Bourgeois, the mayor's daughter, as she stared at the local celebrity Adrien Agraste.
Pacifica, not having changed as much as her friends, but now enjoying her freedom from her parents tight grip, still kept up with what was in, only breaking from the norm by always wearing a strange violet belt with a weird circular buckle that always had a rainbow of colors pulsing from the center outwards, similar rings upon her two middle fingers, almost laughed as the girl began a plot to steal a design from the Marinette girl after Adrien complimented them.
She could recall how she was before she met the Pines twins, and just laughed at the similarities, but seeing plenty of differences, Sabrina being one of them. Sabrina actually appeared to care about being a real friend, unlike her cronies. Pacifica actually chuckled when she turned towards their current target, and just smirked.
Marinette, someone who Mabel would love to hang with, not a popular girl, but a rather cool one, she honestly reminded her much of her first true friend Dipper, if he were more into fashion. She might even worry about calling him here with how well she would get along with the twins, if Dipper hadn't already asked herself out that is.
Dipper had offered her the belt and rings she always wore, as a gift when he had first asked her to dinner, when they were both 14, she later found out that he had been taking lessons from both Grunkles, and Mcgucket, before retrieving several rare and magical ingredients to create them for her. Dipper had been exceeding all expectations of schools since he began learning under them, going to regular school with Mabel, and putting up with Ford's and Fidd's tests, while not being proper degrees, they did claim he could earn them with how much they taught him.
Pacifica really only knew this because she and Mabel would talk about it during her visits when Stan would train Dipper to toughen him up. Dipper might not look it while he wears his clothes, but he has developed rather nicely, not enough to earn a manliness medal, but he was rather fit, he had a four pack of abs last she saw him during his morning workout at the shack last summer.
Pacifica shook off her blush as she came out of her daydreaming, only to see a certain brunette, with her pet piglet, Widdles, Waddles was probably in gravity falls with the momma pig, who Mabel named Charlotte, after watching a certain movie, was giving love and attention to the flying rodents of Paris.
Xavier Ramier was rather happy as he fed the pigeons, feeling he made a new friend that also cared about the birds as he did, she was energetically bouncing about, somehow not stepping on a single one. Her, he assumes brother with how similar they look, possible twin, had explained that the girl, Mabel, had a natural talent of avoiding hurting animals, having tested it without her knowledge. She could literally drive a brakeless kart through town without hurting a single animal.
Plenty of people were upset, and he had to help round up all the animals he let loose, but she had not hurt a single animal, even ones she didn't know about. Of course, he turned the brakes back on before she did any real damage to herself.
He was in trouble for a while, though Ford tried a couple more tests with the theory after reading his findings, and agreed with him that Mabel somehow knew when she was about to hurt an animal and was able to stop herself.
Unless she wanted to that was.
Back to her current antics, she was making sure that the feed, which she got from Xavier, got spread across the group of pigeons instead of just in front of the bench he was sat upon.
Dipper was about to get his sister back on track, if not for the two bird lovers getting yelled at by a police officer. "I must ask that you both cease and desist your lawbreaking."
Dipper pulls Mabel away behind him before she could argue with the man just doing his job, showing her a no feeding sign, before picking up Widdles and poking her nose with his when she began to pout.
Dipper just chuckled with his sister before he felt a grip on his shoulder turn him around, making him face a certain blonde girlfriend. "Weren't you supposed to come straight here? I thought I told you this was important?"
Dipper smiled guiltily, poking her nose with Widdle's as he did to Mabel, only to do it again when all she did was twitch, and again when she narrowed her eyes, only for Widdles to lick the tip of her nose when she didn't respond. Pacifica actually failed to hold her poker face after that, taking the little runt, and saying hi before handing him to his owner, going back to glaring at Dipper, although with less heat, and a small barely hid smile, only giving up after Dipper used his own nose to boop hers. Mabel was tittering like crazy as Pacifica finally gave up on being mad and just hugged him, before giving her a hug.
Marinette, who had seen everything, was somewhat shocked that one of the two little princesses, would just allow someone, anyone, get anywhere near her with an animal like a pig. Actually, several people were shocked over that, while several boys also grew upset over seeing Pacifica being so loving with an unknown male. Marinette had never really conversed with Pacifica before, due to her rather poor relations with the other blonde that was usually with Pacifica, though she would admit that while Pacifica had shown to be more honest, and a bit more modest, she could usually be found with Chloe and Sabrina, both of which actually disliked her greatly.
Marinette's confusion over the two new kids that obviously knew the popular blonde enough to get away with putting little pigs in her face would have continued, if she were not pulled from her thoughts by the voice of her best friend. "Well, we now know why she rejected all those boys that asked her out. Looks like miss popstar already has a man."
Alya sat down next to her. "I still have to ask though, what is with the pig?"
Marinette would have just shrugged if not for a sudden appearance of said pig in their faces, followed by an energetic and happy voice. "Well, this little guy is named Widdles, named after his daddy, who has gotten too large to just travel whenever. Sorry if I interrupted anything, I just heard someone mention a pig, and since I am the only gal cool enough to have a pig around here, I figured you would like to hear his story, so I came right over."
Marinette just stared into the eyes of the widdle pig named Widdles, who just stared happily back before oinking as he pushed his face forward, making their noses touch, getting a smile and giggle, before the two girls started to pet the piglet.
Alya smirked, deciding to reciprocate the introduction. "Well, my name is Alya Cesaire (nyeh over the e), and this gal is Marinette Dupain-Cheng, and since we now know this little guy's name, what's yours?"
Mabel shifted herself to holding Widdles as if he were one of those chihuahuas from the movies, before checking her nails out, before speaking in a rather frightening similar tone to Chloe. "My name is Mabel Pines, and I come to see about joining the highly esteemed school known as Finny Despect."
Both girls were thrown for a loop at the change in demeanor, before showing confusion at the name of the school she mentioned. Pacifica and Dipper were patient as they watched the spectacle, before Dipper facepalmed and sighed over the mistake, this being the seventh time she messed it up.
He was beginning to believe it was on purpose.
Mabel shifted her attention towards Pacifica, "So, how was that? Did I sound pompous enough to get into your school?"
Pacifica smirked, holding her giggles back as she responded. "I would give it a B at best, I would have said A-, if you got the name of the school right."
Mabel smiled as she turned to the other two girls. "A 'B' is still an awesome grade, right girls? Up high!"
Mabel held both her hands up for the two girls to smack, both of whom, wound up looking at her oinking pig in an until now, unnoticed pouch on her chest, which made the pig look like it was hugging the Eifel tower. "My eyes are up here ladies."
Both girls blushed lightly as they gave playful glares at the girl's mischievous smile, and throughout the entire time, Mabel had not lowered her hands, causing Marinette and Alya to reciprocate the gesture. Marinette couldn't help but giggle slightly at the whole situation while Pacifica stepped forward.
"Well, since Mabel started introductions. This is my boyfriend Dipper Pines, and his sister Mabel. Guys, these are a couple of my classmates Marinette Dupain-Cheng and Alya Cesaire."
Both Paris natives were honestly a little surprised at Pacifica, having expected her to have a similar disposition to Chloe. Pleasantly surprised but surprised none the less.
"Dipper is here in order to aid me with my idea for the bowler hat, some of what I'm doing requires a more inventive approach. And before either of you ask, yes. Dipper and Mabel are the reason I am not more like Chloe."
Both girls nervously look away, Alya even whistling. Dipper chuckled as Mabel gasped. "Are you saying there is another grouchy Pazzy here?"
Pacifica just smiled. "Not as bad as I was, but she is a bit haughty."
Marinette and Alya both looked to each other, trying to imagine Chloe being worse, leading to both giving a shiver. Neither liked the thought.
Mabel was just sitting by as Pacifica was assuring the two new friends of theirs that she was indeed worse than Chloe, and even proved it by ripping them apart rather brutally.
As Marinette and Alya were recovering from the verbal lashing Pacifica had done, they were all caught off guard when Mabel screamed. Turning to find her being lifted off by a bunch of pigeons.
Dipper stared in shock as his sister was carried away towards a familiar guy in a pigeon costume. "What the hell is going on here?"
Alya was the first to respond as Marinette slipped away, pulling out a camera and getting ready to record everything for her blog. Dipper pulled his backpack off, set it on the ground and after opening it, reached both arms in.
When Dipper pulled his arms out, they were both covered in gauntlets that covered to just above his elbow, they were both somewhat cube-shaped with circuitry showing on the surface, which began to have a rainbow color flow through them when Dipper tapped his fists to his shoulders.
The strange pigeon man only stayed for mere minutes as his pigeons brought Mabel to him. "Don't worry sweet child, our flock will be the greatest there ever was. You'll love it."
As Pigeon man spoke, he didn't notice how Mabel flinched, Dipper went still, and Pacifica face palmed.
"So, after I return you to our nest, I shall return for the miraculous of Ladybug and Cat Noir."
Dipper ran towards them as the Pigeons flew upwards and away. Dipper reached into his coat, pulling out what appeared to be bulky knuckles. Pigeon man scoffed at the melee weapon, until Dipper flicked his wrist and it unfolded into a gun.
Taking aim, Dipper pulled the trigger, and was sure he would have blown the man's head off.
If a black pole hadn't pushed it upward, and caused him to miss, though the rainbow-colored electrical orb threw them off, it also scared the daylights out of Pigeon man and his pigeons, as they all flew off faster. Dipper was forced to watch his sister fly away with the guy dressed like a pigeon, before he turned his hate filled glare towards the blonde in a leather cat suit.
"Okay, you are new here so I will explain now, that guy is not in his right mind and is under control by a villain, and we just gotta figure out how to free him. We will help your sister as long as you don't shoot anyone. How did you even get a gun by plane security anyway?"
Dipper flicked his wrist as he reached his left hand into his coat and armed his left hand with a second knuckle gun. Cat gave a nervous chuckle as he stepped back, though that didn't help when Dipper stepped forward faster than Cat expected, punched him in the gut, causing him to be electrocuted as he was launched backwards painfully.
Ladybug had reached the scene in time to see Dipper activate something in his boots, that launched him forward, leaving burn marks on the ground, and planting a fist in Cat's stomach, before his fist generated a field of electricity and launched Cat back quite a way. Ladybug was pretty shocked, now curious if Dipper was akumatized due to his sister being kidnapped.
Ladybug threw her yoyo and grappled Dipper's right gauntlet before he could get close enough to Cat to deliver another punch. "Calm down now, I am sure that as soon as we remove the akuma from both you and Pigeon man, we can get everything settled and back to normal."
Alya, being right there from the start, burst that bubble before something bad happened. "Actually, he didn't have anything come and transform him, he just pulled out those weapons from his bag and coat, before going Rambo on Pigeon man and Cat Noir."
Ladybug looked at Alya with a good deal of shock, not having expected Dipper to be willing to shoot someone. Ladybug would have continued to try to talk Dipper down, if part of his gauntlet hadn't folded over her yoyo string and started to spin and drag her towards him.
Magic string refused to snap, and it was also tightening around her finger a little uncomfortably, as she was being dragged through the dirt and grass. Ladybug was on a direct course for the electrical knuckles that knocked Cat for a loop, when Cat himself jumped between them and used his cataclysm to sever the string.
Both heroes were confused how to go about this, having never confronted a civilian before. Dipper flicked his wrists, so the two weapons became guns as he aimed at both heroes, making them rather nervous.
Pigeon man flew back, as he found the standoff, and grew nervous. Pigeon man had wound up having a talk with Mabel, and realized what him kidnapping her implied, and she explained how she has had some exes that were not very good with rejection.
He needed to apologize and hope Dipper didn't use a chaos bomb, although she did mention he might have left it with Ford. But after hearing about the young man having invented weapons to fight magical beings, and even being able to pierce magical protections.
Pigeon man was nervous and scared. "Excuse me, Dipper?"
Not even a second later, Pigeon man was staring at two guns pointing his way. Hawkmoth had mentioned that with how Mabel explained the way those guns worked; he was unsure how his current defenses would hold up. "Daughter!"
Dipper was confused enough to actually hesitate in pulling the trigger, Pigeon man took that as his cue to continue. "Your sister Mabel, my goal was adopting her into my nest, nothing nefarious of the sort, or anything like that. I apologize for the misconception."
Dipper blinked as he stared at Pigeon man with a deadpanned impression. "What the fuck is wrong with you?"
"Language!" Everyone turned to Ladybug. Dipper chose to reiterate.
By speaking a different language. "Nani shitendayo!"
Ladybug deadpanned, Cat turned away and tried to hold in his chuckles.
Pigeon man stared as Dipper has yet to stop aiming the guns at him. "Where is my sister bird shit, if you don't respond soon, I may still shoot your head with an energy pulse powerful enough to short-out the empire state building."
Alya sighed in irritation. "How about English for the less intelligent Einstein?"
Dipper took a deep breath. "Answer, or I will blow your ass up. English enough for you?"
Pacifica watched from the sidelines, enjoying watching Dipper show just how manly he actually was, and how it reminded her of when her father decided to try to use that stupid bell again. Now it just brings up bad memories and depresses her, but after Dipper blew the bell up while it was still in her father's hand.
Needless to say, he stopped doing that.
Mabel walked up and shouted. "Kick all three their asses Dippy!"
Everyone was now staring at her. "He left me in a birdcage guarded by pigeons, and because he isn't a pervert, he never knew I had a grappling hook, so I escaped and came back."
Dipper just sighed in relief, Pigeon man stared in shock and Ladybug snuck up and grabbed the pigeon whistle off Pigeon man. Cat had snuck off to avoid his secret getting out, after saving Ladybug from being clobbered like he was. A quick stomp and purify later and the battle was over without much trouble, other than having to confront a certain boy about going Punisher on people being akumatized.
"You do realize that when people are akumatized, they tend to do things they normally wouldn't. The akuma elevates their dark feelings, making them angrier and more prone to lashing out. You shouldn't just jump straight to shooting people when things like this happen."
Dipper scoffed at her. "Just because you're a Saturday morning dork that fights Saturday morning villains, does not mean we are. Me and my sister have had to deal with actual evil, the kind that would make your little cartoon show, wet it's pants."
Dipper walked away with his sister as Pacifica followed and started to talk about her project. Ladybug just sighed, as she realized that they obviously wouldn't listen. Which meant she and Cat were going to have to keep an eye on them and do damage control. And prey to every deity she knew of that he doesn't get akumatized.
Marinette smirked, proud at how she prevented Chloe from stealing her design. Adrien and his father's assistant moved on to Pacifica's which looked to just be a bowler with a screen wrapped around it, and two block linked ribbons dangling from the sides. Gabriel almost scoffed as he saw the design before him, all it was, was a screen with eyes and colored tassels.
Until the tassels rose and waved at him. "Hello, I am a bowler hat designed by Pacifica and Dipper Pines."
That put a stop to the other thoughts, Pacifica sighed. "Did you leave it with Mabel at any point in creating it?"
Dipper shrugged. "I had to re purpose an AI I crafted for a video game I was designing. Mabel might have talked to it while it was in the laptop before we put them in the hat."
"Well, she is the only person I know that would teach it to refer to us as if we were married."
Dipper shrugged as they were stared at by Gabriel. "So other than crafting life, what is special about it?"
Mabel could be heard in the back commenting about how professional the man must be to be able to say that so casually. Pacifica spoke up to explain. "Well, I stuck with a casual design so as to be welcoming to the casual wearer, while the AI is able to display anything on the screen around the hat, changing the color, choosing the design, or even asking questions depending on what he is programmed to do."
Dipper stepped forward to point something out. "I would need to craft a new AI and not activate it until the person the hat is for is there to teach it how to act."
Gabriel was impressed, the hat displaying what it could do as it was explained, even lighting up in a way to show a design similar to Marinette's using one of the block tassels to look like a feather.
The hat smiled as it switched back to the face, raising a tassel towards Adrien, who subconsciously reached out and grabbed it, only for the hat to shake it as if in a handshake. Marinette and Alya both just stood there in shock over what they were seeing. First it was rainbow electricity that could hurt Cat Noir and now it was artificial life, what next?
That was not a challenge.
Gabriel smiled. "Well, I can see how impressive this creation is. To craft life is nothing to scoff at, though it gets my stamp of approval, I must also think of the customer. And there are a lot of old-fashioned gents that wear bowler hats. So, where yours would obviously pull in the next gen, the previous gen may feel alienated from the tech in it. I guess I need to judge both this as well as Ms. Dupain-Cheng's as passes. Adrien can display them both, one for the sophisticated gents, and another for the next generation. A brilliant idea I must say."
In short, he prefers Marinette's design, but sees the benefits to Pacifica's as a hat for the future. And who can say no to an AI? He just needed Dipper to make him one so he could name it Jarvis.
Pacifica shrugged as she offered Marinette a high five after Gabriel's assistant left. The AI, who insisted his name was Alfred, was celebrating with Mabel as the hat played 'Don't Start Unbelieving' at a reasonable volume after Dipper threatened to ground them both.
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Dipper and Mabel both wound up staying in Paris for one simple fact. Dipper became infamous.
Apparently going 'Rambo' as Alya put it on two superheroes to the point the villain being mind-controlled feared you gets attention. Attention that is split down the middle.
There were people that sent him letters of praise, which were also split between liking how violent he was, while others just wanted him to prove the average Joe, or police officers could step up and stand against these villains. Others were threatening him for hurting their precious Cat boy and Bug babe.
Those were the most annoying.
Mabel and Dipper both were basically hiding away in Pacifica's hotel room, which was in the same building as Chloe's, having learned that Chloe and Pacifica were actually friends. Sabrina had actually taken a liking to learning from Dipper, and Pacifica had caught her blushing and staring at him several times.
Dipper was getting too stressed over the Fan love/hate mail, as well as playing with his inventions to notice. Mabel was whispering in her ear about the possibilities the situation opened for her. Chloe had made it clear that she could handle her man and said she would stay out of it unless it interfered with her personally.
Sabrina knew he had a girlfriend and didn't make a move on him but couldn't help but develop a crush when he paid attention to her and answered all her questions like they were from someone important, and in a way so she could keep up with him. He also looked so excited and adorable when he was explaining his new inventions. She always cowered away when she caught Pacifica watching her.
They wound up missing two incidents with the Akuma things. Evilustrator and Rogercop were both honestly rather silly if you asked Dipper. Ladybug and Cat were both under constant questioning over the internet and Alya about him as well.
Yes, he went and found the Ladyblog and read the questions about him, even answering a few. And telling them that his inventions just couldn't be replicated with common means. The means he had to get the resources, while being stable to supply himself and his great uncle Ford, would be unable to supply any type of force and remain stable.
They provided some for government-officials of course, and the government in return protected their sources. Dipper knew people apparently. And now he had to deal with the fallout of him getting pissed at some winged rodent man.
They were finally getting the chance to get out and around in order to visit some big deal art reveal, for Ladybug and Cat Noir. Theo Barbot had crafted a rather nice likeness of the two heroes. And Cat Noir was the only one to show.
Dipper had no idea what went on after, because he stopped paying attention when people had started asking if the artist would make a sculpture of him.
Apparently, he was well liked enough that people wanted to include him even though it was just one fight he was in. Why won't people just ignore him like they use to?
Later that night, after Dipper sneaked out of the art display, fedora trench coat combo worked for the TMNT, and it came through for him. Common troupe for the win. Taking a walk in the park, a bit after hours, Dipper was caught off guard when Cat Noir grabbed and flipped his coat over his head, and basically knocking him over. Dipper wound up having to release the hold on his coat so he could get up.
Cat had his coat and was taking a look at the things within, including the knuckle guns he had used against him and Ladybug in their first meeting. As Cat was about to grip the weapon properly, he was surprised when it electrocuted him, which caused his appearance to glitch out.
Which caused a butterfly like image to let off sparks around his eyes and leaving burns on his hand. "Well, if I can't use them, I can always throw them off a bridge so you can't use them against me."
Dipper grew angrier with each word, rushing in and going for a straight punch to the cat boy's face. Cat dropped to the ground as the flames began to burst from Dipper's boots, flexing his claws and swinging them as he rolled off to the side. With a cry of cataclysm and a rising claw swipe, Dipper tried to reverse his rush, causing the swipe to dig into his belt buckle.
And Dipper had never felt angrier, as he heard someone whispering into his ear. "Hello Dipper Pines."
=-=-=-=-=-=-=Elsewhere with the two real heroes=-=-=-=-=-=-=
Ladybug and Cat Noir were looking for the impostor cat, searching high and low.
As they confronted Copycat in the art museum, he said something about a plan and Dipper. Hawkmoth apparently said something about getting Dipper to fight them with how Copycat spoke about a partner. They arrived just in time to see the butterfly motif appear over his eyes, before it glitched out and melted into a triangle.
As the triangle turned yellow and hovered over Dipper's right eye, he began to laugh, and it didn't sound very pleasant. Copycat backed away, dropping the coat to the ground as the two heroes appeared nearby. "What did you do Theo?"
"I don't know." Copycat didn't have an answer for Ladybug, and all three of them cowered before the boy as the laughs grew more hectic.
"Hello Paris, good to finally meet you!"
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Fixed it, so I figured I would update this here to pretty it up for everyone instead of just AO3, I hope it looks better.
