"I can't believe it." Muttered Dipper as he layed on the floor of his room.

He was...shocked, to say the least, by what his sister had told him. She had a whole other life before this one and this world was a cartoon in that life. And on top of that, something in Gravity Falls is inhibiting the memories of said cartoon.

He thought he'd spend the summer looking for mysteries, but he never could have believed that something like this was right under his nose.

He wondered if Mabel missed her old family.

Snapping him out of his thoughts was Mabel knocking on the door and calling for him.

"Dipper, are you in there? You haven't said a word since, y'know? Are you okay in there?" Mabel asked in concern. "I know what I said was bad, but can you at least talk to me?"

Dipper, feeling bad hearing what Mabel said, got up from the floor and opened the door.

"Hey, you okay, bro bro?" Asked Mabel who was wearing a black jacket with a red undershirt, black leggings and her shooting star necklace awkwardly.

"Yeah, just thinking about what you said." Replied Dipper awkwardly.

Mabel sighed. "It's okay if you hate me. I hid this for twelve year-"

"Mabel, it just." Dipper quickly cut in.

"Yeah, it's a little weird." Said Mabel tightly clutching her arm with her hand.

"And there's this whole other life you had the I don't know about."

"Y-yeah."

Awkward silence ensued as both didn't know what to say. Interrupting the awkward moment, their stomachs growled loudly.

"We should get something to eat." Said Mabel with an awkward smile.

Dipper nodded before he and Mabel headed downstairs for something to eat.

xxXxx

"I can't believe you dragged me here." Muttered Mabel tiredly.

The pines family was currently sitting at a table in none other than the Greasy Diner. A diner whose name does not inspire hope for Mabel's appetite.

Stan ignored Mabel as he stared at the menu before the owner who is also the waitress appeared. "Lazy Susan! There's my little ray of sunshine! Where were you yesterday?

"I got hit by a bus!" Exclaimed Susan cheerfully, causing Stan to burst into laughter.

Mabel didn't need her old memories to recognize that Stan had a crush on Suzan.

After he recovered from laughter, Stan asked. "You do split plates, right?"

"Maybe?...wink." she said as she made her eye wink with her hand.

"Great! We'll all split a one fourth of the number seven, plus a free salad dressing for the lady and a small plate of ketchup for the boy"

Mable grumbled internally at the food choice, hoping no one would notice her displeasure. But someone did.

"We could get pancakes." Suggested Dipper knowing that pancakes were some of the only desserts his sister enjoyed.

But before Mabel could be happy with the suggestion, Stan cut in

"With the fancy flour they use these days? What am I? Made of money?"

Mabel only slightly deflated hearing this, knowing she had bigger problems like the awkward situation with her and Dipper.

Dipper, however, noticed another way to get the pancakes. "Don't worry, sis, pancakes are on me. I'm gonna win some by beating that manliness tester."

"Manliness tester?" Asked Stan on the verge of laughter.

"Beating?" Asked Mabel cringing as Stan burst into full blown laughter.

"What? What is it?" Asked Dipper seeing his family's reactions.

"It's just...not your area of expertise. You're more on the brains side." Said Mabel sheepishly before expecting Dipper to feel betrayed and exclaiming quickly. "But you could totally do it after some work out!"

Dipper's determination faltered as Stan added.

"Your sister's right, kid. You got no muscles, you smell like baby wipes, and let's not forget last Tuesday's...'incident'."

"BABBA does have some pretty catchy songs." Added Mabel with an awkward smile.

"Fine, family of little faith, get ready to eat your words...and a plate of delicious pancakes." Said Dipper unknowingly hurting Mabel with the little faith part as he stood up and headed to the manliness tester.

Safe to say, he flunked it. Right after, Manly Dan lightly used the machine and got everyone pancakes while Dipper felt humiliated and ran away.

Mabel first instinct was to follow right after him.

"Hey, where're you going?" Asked Stan in surprise as Mabel began running.

"After Dipper. Also, I know you have a crush on Lazy Susan. Confess already! You have no chance with her if you don't and she won't hate you if you do!"

Stan couldn't say word to her before Mabel already left through the door.

She looked outside for any trace of her twin and barely saw him running away, prompting her to follow right after.

After a few twists and turns and getting lost for a few minutes, Mabel finally caught up to him sitting on a log in the woods near the town.

"Dipper!" Said Mabel as she approached her brother who was sulking.

Dipper turned to her and sighed.

"Mabel, do you think I'm lame?" Asked Dipper dejectedly.

"What?"

"You can sing, dance, make music, make art, fight, play every sport imaginable well and more." Said Dipper dejectedly. "Your old family must've been amazing. Compared to that, I'm..."

Mabel froze. Her old family? Was he comparing himself to them?

"Dipper, that's-" before Mabel could finish, the ground began shaking, causing Dipper to fall onto the ground as Mabel followed soon after.

"For the love of all that is holy, RUN!" Said Manly Dan as he ran away from whatever was causing the earthquake.

Memories began to surface as Mabel tried to stand up. It was a minotaur that was causing all of this and it was because of some jerky.

She quickly began to panic when she realized Dipper didn't have any jerky with him.

Soon, the shaking stopped and the twins were able to see three figures in front of them. Three minotaurs.

"Are you the child?!" Asked one of the minotaurs.

"What?" Asked Mabel in confusion.

Mabel was confused even more when the minotaur picked her up like a toy before running away yelling. "We found the child!"

"Mabel!" Screamed Dipper as he saw his sister being taken away only to notice one of the minotaurs still there. "Hey! Who are you?! And what are you doing with my sister?!"

The minotaur's ears perked before he turned to Dipper.

"Oh, I'm Chutzpar and if you mean by sister the child we're taking to our master, then she's being taken to our master."

"Master?" Asked Dipper raising a brow.

"A powerful deity that took down our old leader, Leaderar, with ease. A cruel being with infinite knowledge and power. I can only imagine the horrors that child will go through."

Dipper immediately began to panic.

"Oh no, Mabel! Uhh, Chutzpar! Can you take me to your master?" Asked Dipper in a hurry.

"You wish to face our master to save that child?" Asked Chutzpar and Dipper nodded with a determined expression. "Very well. Climb atop my back hair, child."

Dipper was weirded out by the back hair, but climbed it anyway.

He HAD to save his sister.

The minotaur quickly dashed away the moment Dipper was in place, recklessly going through any obstacle in his way until he reached the top of a mountain where the minotaurs were all kneeling in front of one being.

"There," said Chutzpar pointing at his master "our master."

Dipper had to look from different angles to make sense of the being before finally asking the great question.

"Is that a mailbox?"

xxXxx

Tell me how I did. Leave a review.

Toodles.