A/N: Updated something twice today... yeah, I'm surprised too... Anyways enjoy the chapter!
Chapter 9: Little Dipper
It was a normal day at the mystery shack… as in a normal quiet day. No weird things whatever.
That was when the doorbell rang, Stan went to get it and it was a man in a suit.
"Stan Pines?" asked the man.
"Cripes! It's the taxman! He found me!" yelled Stan.
He used a smoke bomb to get away, he covered a large suitcase and tried to find a hidden door.
"Where is it? Where is it?" asked Stan.
"Mr. Pines." Said the man, "You just won the coupon house winging money contest!"
"What? Really?" asked Stan surprised.
The kids heard this.
"Oh wow! Really!" said Serena.
"We're millionaires now!" cheered Mabel.
"That's right, all you have to sign this for millions." Said the man.
"All right about to sign." Said Stan.
He wrote something down on the paper and the man took, that was when Gideon broke through the check.
"All right! Now the Mystery Shack is mine!" yelled Gideon.
The younger Pines gasped.
"With this you have signed over the right to the Mystery Shack." Bragged Gideon.
"You might want to read that again." Said Stan with a smirk.
Gideon read the piece of paper in his hand.
"I herby sign over the Mystery Shack to Gideon Gleeful signed "Suck a Lemon Little Man"" read Gideon.
They couldn't help but to laugh at the situation.
Gideon made his threats saying "I'm not someone to tread lightly!" he threatened.
And he left with his cronies.
"So you want to watch TV?" asked Stan.
They all shrugged and went back to watching TV.
Sometime later Amelia came over and played Chess with Dipper.
Mabel watched and pouted.
"What's wrong?" asked Serena.
"It's just that Dipper always used to play chess with me." Pouted Mabel.
"Yeah, but he always beat you… that and you always stole the knights from the board." Said Serena.
"But they're little horses! And they like being with me!" said Mabel.
"Checkmate!" said Dipper.
"Good job." Said Amelia.
Dipper took out the score sheet of his and Amelia's matches, it was pretty venially matched, but Amelia had quite a few more wins then Dipper.
"I'm catching up." Said Dipper.
Soos who was doing some clean up, "Hey! Mabel, can you get me that lady brain a jar." Said Soos.
"I can do it." Said Dipper.
"No Mabel's taller." Said Soos.
"What no, we're the same height." Said Dipper.
"No Mabel's taller." Said Soos.
The twins stood back to back while Soos used a tape measure to see how tall they were.
Turns out Mabel was a millimeter taller.
"Oh yeah!" said Mabel.
"Oh come on you're not really talker than, maybe in Canada, I mean whop uses a Millimeter." Said Dipper.
"Mabel please don't make fun of Dipper." Said Serena.
"But he's my little brother." Said Mabel, "Get it little!"
"I was awaken by the sound of mockery!" said Stan, "Who is it! Show me the object of ridicule."
"I'm taller than Dipper!" laughed Mabel.
"By a millimeter." Said Dipper.
"Don't think little of him!" said Mabel.
Stan laughed.
"He uh… short!" he teased.
Dipper looked embarrassed.
"You know Mabel as the middle child that means no one's going to pay attention to you." Said Serena coming to Dipper's defense.
Everyone stared at Serena in shock, Serena blushed realizing what she said was much meaner than what Stan and Mabel were saying.
"Wow…" said Stan.
"Sorry…" she managed to squeak out.
She went up to the bedroom.
"Well I'm done…" said Stan, "Remind never to get into a fight with your sister… it's always the nice ones…"
Dipper and Amelia, Amelia to talk to Serena while Dipper to look through the Journal.
"Dipper what are you planning?" asked Serena.
"Well I read something in the forest about something that might make me taller." Said Dipper.
"Be careful." Said Serena.
"You have been biting off more than you can chew lately." Added Amelia.
"I know, I know." Said dipper.
"Just make sure you don't' get hurt." Said Serena, "And if you're in danger please call us."
"I know…" sighed Dipper.
He went into the forest and found the area where it was to said to be strange giant and tiny animals. After almost getting attacked by a mountain lion, which shrank due to a large crystal, he found a smaller crystal, and took it. When he got back he showed it to Serena and Amelia.
He did leave out the mountain lion part.
He hooked it up to a flashlight.
He showed them by shrinking a pawn using the pink side to it.
"Ipoh wow!" said Serena.
"And now to grow it." Said Dipper showing them the blue side.
HE grew the pawn, but…
"Too big!" yelled Dipper.
They all stared at the giant pawn.
"What are we going to do?" asked Amelia.
"Leave it until we can tell Soos about it." Said Serena.
"I'm fine with that." Said Dipper.
"Now to grow myself by a millimeter." Said Dipper.
"Is that going to work?" asked Amelia.
Turns out using for less than a second worked.
He went back down stairs to show Mabel, but she kept at teasing him by saying she'll keep growing taller .
"I'm evolving and growing in some kind of Alpha Twin!" said Mabel.
She began to chant "Alpha Twin! Alpha Twin!"
"Hold I think I fell another growth spurt." Said Dipper.
HE went back up to the room.
"She's teasing you again?" asked Serena.
"I can handle it." Said Dipper, "No need to bring another gun to a knife fight."
Serena sighed when he said that.
He once again grew himself, this time much taller.
"Hey what's going on with you." Said Mabel.
That was when she noticed he was much taller.
"How did that happen." Said Mabel.
"No reason." Said Dipper.
"Mable have you been teasing Dipper again?" asked Serena.
"Please don't bring another gun to a knife fight." Said Mabel.
"Has everyone been saying that?" asked Serena.
"Anyways it's some kind of magic-y thing?" asked Mabel, "are you hiding a wizard?"
"I'm not hiding a wizard!" said Dipper.
Mabel went over to the closet and opened it.
"You're hiding a wizard, aren't you?" asked Mabel.
She opened the door to the closet, "Really an invisible wizard?"
That was when Serena's communicator began to beep.
Serena answered it.
"Gideon's trying something again." Said Marina, "I heard about earlier and I only got word about it after he tried it, but he's going to do something again."
"Are you sure?" asked Serena.
"Yeah, I'd guess he's there by now." Said Marina on the communicator.
That was when they heard screaming down stairs, they all looked and saw Gideon running away from some strange bugs, they also heard Stan laughing.
"It's fine." Said Serena.
"That's good." Said Marian breathing a sigh of relief.
"So anyways…" said Mabel, "Back to the invisible wizard."
"There's no invisible wizard!" yelled Dipper.
Serena got in-between the two before they could start fighting big time.
"Look I've been using this magical flashlight." Said Dipper.
"Let me see that!" said Mabel.
Dipper ran out of the room and Mabel followed after threatening the invisible wizard.
"Remember Gideon is down there so be careful." Called out Serena.
"They're be fine." Said Amelia.
"I hope so." Said Serena.
"Let's go down stairs and get some ice cream." Said Amelia.
"Okay." Sighed Serena.
Outside Dipper and Mabel fought over the magical flashlight. Glowing things like a caterpillar, and Mabel's hand during the fight.
She also made Dipper's head bigger while also shrinking Mabel's head.
Thankfully both returned to normal, just in time for the flashlight to land in front of Gideon who was cursing the Pines Family.
"You don't think he knows it's a magical flash light that can shrink thing." Said Mabel out loud.
It should be noted that he was very close to them and heard it.
"Really?" asked Dipper.
Gideon smiled evilly and shrank the two to just a couple inches tall, he put them in a jar he had (it was carrying something from his latest plans that failed).
He headed to his house. Walking past some people at his father used car lot, saying hello to his mother (who was freaking out) and took the two to his room.
He let them out of the jar and onto his desk.
"What are you going to do us?" asked Mabel.
"Nothing, I won't hurt a hair on your head Mabel." Said Gideon, "If you agree to be my queen."
"We live in democracy! And no!" yelled Mabel.
"Oh I know of other ways…" said Gideon.
He took out a bag of Gummy Koalas.
"Gummy Koala!" yelled Mabel.
He put her in the bag she began to eat them.
"Now as for you boy!" said Gideon, "How did you come across this, did you read about it?"
Dipper didn't answer, only checking if he still had the journal on him, which thankfully he did. He noticed something nearby.
"Lean in closely and I'll tell you." Said Dipper.
Gideon did so, and Dipper pressed an air horn that was nearby.
"I COULD SQUASH YOU RIGHT NOW"! yelled Gideon.
But he calmed himself down.
"I could use them, I could use them." he reminded himself.
And so he called Stan.
Meanwhile back at the Shack, Stan was making Soos, Serena and Amelia put up a bunch of mirrors.
He had stopped Serena and Amelia from getting ice cream and made them do this.
"Soos, this is the best idea I've stolen from you." Said Stan.
"Actually I've seen better…" admitted Serena.
"Let me guess something at like Fisherman's wharf or something." Said Stan, "Of course it's better, it's a big city mirror maze, I can't compete it that."
He looked at himself in the mirror.
"Have my ears always been this big." He said as he looked at himself in the mirror and taking off his fez.
That was when the phone rang, however Hotaru.
"Stan, it's Gideon again." Said Hotaru.
"Again… he's been persistent all day." Said Stan.
When he was out of site, Soos put the fez on saying "Someday."
And Stan talked to him on the phone.
"Stanford Pines, I have your younger Niece and Nephew." Said Gideon.
"Nice try, I saw them playing in the yard a few minutes ago." Said Stan.
"I do have them in my possession." Said Gideon, "I'll text you're a photo."
"What? "Text me a photo?" Are you even speaking English?" asked Stan.
"I do have them!" yelled Gideon.
But it wasn't enoguh as Stan hung up.
Gideon threw his phone into the walk in a fit, however he realized something.
"I don't need ransom, I have this!" he said with an evil laugh realizing he had the flashlight, "I use shrink him and taker the shack, and you are powerless to stop me."
He grabbed some of his dolls and broke them showing them what he would do.
"If you try anything…" he said.
"Gideon, the ice cream man is here." Said Bud sticking his head in.
"I'll be right there." Said Gideon.
He took out his hamster.
"Guard them Cheekums." Said Gideon as he left the room.
Dipper took a breath.
"Let's hope these still work." Said Dipper.
He activated his communicator and called Marina.
Thankfully she was down the hall.
"Hey Dipper, is this an emergency?" asked Marina.
"Are you at your house?" asked Dipper on the other end.
"Yeah, I am… why?" asked Marina.
"Can you go into Gideon's room? I'll explain when you get there." Said Dipper.
"Okay…" said Marina.
She went to Gideon's room, despite know it would star a fight.
"Okay, what do you need?" asked Marina.
"Look at the desk." Said Dipper over the communicator.
Marina did so and noticed the miniature Dipper and Mabel tearing in the gummy koalas.
"What happened?" asked Marina turning of her communicator.
"I'll explain later, just get us out of here." Said Dipper.
She marina held out her hand so Dipper could ride it.
"Leave me in the bag!" said Mabel.
Marina sighed and grabbed the bad.
She petted Cheekums.
"Oh you're just a little dum dum." Giggled Marina to her brother's pet hamster knowing he was a bad guard for them.
She took them to her room as she began to pack her bags.
"Wait why are you packing?" asked Dipper.
"Well you know… this will probably result in me having to stay at your place for a while." Said Marina.
"Oh… right…" said Dipper.
"So what's going on?" asked Marina.
Dipper told the story about how he was feeling short. So he created the magic flashlight using the magic crystal.
And thanks to fighting over it, Gideon got his hands on it and was planning to shrink Stan.
"Okay, that's bad." Said Marina.
"Of course it is!" said Dipper.
Marina grabbed a couple more outfits knowing this as going to be a big one.
"So why did you build the thing?" asked Marina.
"Because I'm taller than him." Said Mabel.
She then burped.
"I think I'm ready to come out now." She mumbled.
She crawled out of the bag.
"On the bright side we're the same height." Said Dipper.
"Actually." Said Mabel with a smirk.
They found that Mabel was still taller using a ruler on Marina's desk.
"Seriously?" asked Dipper.
"Either way." said Marina, "You shouldn't have created that thing!"
Dipper sighed.
"And you knew Gideon was there, I saw you when I called Serena earlier!" said Marina, "Now everyone's in danger because of this."
Marina was doing her best to try to keep a straight face.
"Are you laughing?" asked Dipper.
"Sorry, sorry… it's just that Hotaru and Riley chewed into you recently and… well I couldn't help myself." Laughed Marina.
Dipper sighed when she did that.
"Look I know what it's like to be in a sibling rivalry, you get blind to the things around you…" said Marina, "If you two were fighting about that, you'd forget a momently distraction like my brother and he failed attempt at stealing the shack."
Dipper and Mabel sighed.
"By the way does Serena know about the flashlight?" asked Marina.
"She does. "sighed Dipper.
She turned out on her communicator and called Serena.
"Hey Marina, something involving Gideon again?" asked Serena on the other end.
"Yeah, and he has Dipper's flashlight." Said Marina.
"How do you know about that?" asked Serena surprised., "Oh know…"
"Well good news he didn't use it on me…" said Marina.
"what's the bad news?" asked Serena.
"He shrank Dipper and Mabel." Said Marina, "But don't worry, they're safe with me."
Serena breathed a sigh of relief.
"I'm headed there right now." Said Marina, "Though you should call the others."
"Amelia's calling Riley and Lila right now." Said Serena.
"Good I'll be there as soon as possible, hopefully I'll beat Gideon there." Said Marina.
Serena nodded and then hung up.
She grabbed her rather large backpack.
"Okay, you two ready to go?" asked Marina.
"Do you think you can beat Gideon?" asked Dipper.
"Don't worry, I'm taking the express way." Said Marina.
"The express way?" asked Dipper.
Marina took out her wand.
"Venus power! Make-up!" called out Marina.
She transformed in Sailor Venus.
She grabbed an empty sports bottle.
"You can you two can fit?" asked Marina.
"Yeah." Said Mabel.
Both of them climbed in. She closed it, but opened the cap so they would have air.
"You two better hold on! This is going to be a bumpy ride." Said Sailor Venus.
She jumped out of her window and into a nearby tree. She noticed her brother waiting at a bus stop and breathed a sigh of relief meaning she would beat him there.
She then jumped form tree to tree very quickly. Making for a very bumpy ride.
"I shouldn't have eaten all of those gummy koalas!" muttered Mabel.
"Please don't vomit on me." Said Dipper.
After a few minutes, Sailor Venus got to the mystery shack and jumped into an open window and made it to the shared bedroom.
"You two okay?" asked Sailor Venus letting the two down and onto their desk.
Mabel fell to the desk.
"I don't fell good." Said Mabel.
"Well we beat Gideon here." Said Dipper.
That was when Hotaru came into the room with a mop as a improved weapon. All she knew was that someone broke in.
"Oh sorry…" said Hotaru, "Gideon?"
"Has a shrink ray…" said Sailor Venus, "Serena and Amelia already know."
"Okay." Sighed Hotaru, "I'll just stay out of the way…"
She left the room.
"Shoot I should have had her healed you." Said Sailor Venus.
"I'm better now!" said Mabel who had recovered.
"Man I really hope you can get it back from him." Said Dipper, "All so we can get back to the same height."
"Seriously!" said Mabel.
"Yes!" said Dipper, "Or even be a little taller than you…"
"Seriously why do you have to be weird about this?" asked Mabel.
"I'm the one being weird." Said Dipper, "You're the one who's been teasing me all day! Why have you been doing that?"
Mabel began to pout.
"It's nothing…" said Mabel.
"It sounds like it's something…" said Dipper.
Mabel sighed and decided to confess.
"You're better than me at like everything! So much so that some of those things you don't even try to go against me any more! Like Chess!" said Mabel, "I just thought for once I was better at you at something…"
Dipper took out a notebook he had, it was true.
"I'm sorry… I didn't know…" said Dipper, "Man I fell like a big jerk."
"Don't you mean little jerk?" asked Mabel.
Dipper laughed.
"Good you two made up." Said Serena.
They both noticed that they were in the room along with Amelia.
"How long were you in here?" asked Dipper.
"During your apology." Said Amelia.
Both of them laughed.
"Looks like Gideon's bus is here." Said Sailor Venus.
"Riley and Lila are coming." Said Amelia, "I've already come up with a plan for the two…"
"Good." Said sailor Venus.
"All right time to transform!" said Serena.
"Moon Prism Power!" said Serena.
"Mercury Power!" said Amelia.
"Make-up!" called out both.
Both of them transformed.
"Wait bring up down with you." Said Dipper.
"Yeah." Said Mabel.
Sailor Mercury held out her hand and both jumped into it.
They jumped out of the window right as Gideon arrived.
"Marina!" yelled Gideon, "Was are you doing here?"
"You don't think I'm not aware of your little plan?" asked Sailor Venus.
Gideon scowled and noticed Dipper and Mabel in Sailor Mercury's hands.
"Why you little…" said Gideon.
He telekinetically picked up a large stone threw it at Sailor Mercury.
She dodged and placed the two on her shoulders.
"Bubble Spray!" called out sailor Mercury.
The fog rolled in.
"Great this again." Muttered Gideon.
He scowled and began to shine his light everywhere.
"I'll find you!" said Gideon, "After all it seems like the blue doesn't have any strong attack."
"Which blue one?" asked Sailor Venus' voice as both Sailor Moon and Sailor Mercury both wore blue.
Gideon shined the light where her voice came from, unfortunately it hit her and he walked over to his shrunken sister.
He picked her up.
"Who the big one now?" asked Gideon.
"Supreme Thunder!" called out a voice.
Gideon barley dodged the lighting bolt letting the shrunken Sailor Venus got.
Gideon turned around and began to look around.
"Who did that!" said Gideon.
Thankfully he was distract enoguh for Sailor Venus to make it Sailor Moon.
"You okay?" asked Sailor Moon quietly.
"I screwed up." Sighed Sailor Venus.
"It's fine." Said Sailor Moon.
He could to shine the light.
"Fire Soul!" called out a voice, sending fire at him, this time it his and he was distracted enoguh to try to pat out the flames.
He also dropped the flashlight, when the fog cleared he noticed that Sailor Mars was holding the flashlight with Sailor Jupiter standing by her side.
"There's two more of you!" yelled Gideon in shock.
"Oh yeah!" said Sailor Venus., "We're a team of 5!"
Gideon scowled.
"You think you can beat me!" yelled Gideon.
He sent out the rock at the two.
However Sailor Jupiter punched the rock causing it to crumble.
"You don't mind, do you Marina?" asked Sailor Jupiter.
"Not at all!" said Sailor Venus.
Gideon began to sweat.
"What's that over there!" yelled Gideon.
He pointed in a random direction and started running away.
"You'll pay for this Pines family!" yelled Gideon, "And don't you dare think of coming home anytime soon!"
Sailor Moon and Sailor Mercury placed Dipper, Mabel and Sailor Venus on the group so they could return to normal.
"Wait hold on…" said Sailor Moon, "I should be the one."
She shined the blue light on the three returning them to their normal height.
"Hold on…" said Mabel.
They measured themselves and Mabel was still a millimeter taller.
"Should I keep it?" asked Mabel.
"Keep it…" said Dipper.
"Thanks. "said Mabel.
"We should destroy this." Said Sailor Moon.
Mabel grabbed the Crystal and smashed it yelling "DIE! DIE!"
The five de-transformed and headed into the mystery shack for a rest.
"Hey! You!" yelled Stan, "I need you test out the mirror maze!"
They shrugged.
"By the way has anyone seen my fez?" he asked.
Soos was admiring himself still wearing the fez. Then got a weird feeling.
"Strange…" said Soos, "It feels like this was meant to set up something but it didn't go anywhere for some reason."
She shrugged and look for a place to put the fez where Stan coupe find it.
Back at Gideon's house he came in.
"Why that backstabbing…" he muttered.
"Are you okay?" asked bud.
"It's not just revenge anymore…" said Gideon, "I want the shack, the physical building!"
"Why?" asked a confused Bud, "It's not because Marina stays there sometimes?"
"No it's that…" said Gideon, "It's that it hold a secret, one that you can't possibly comprehend."
Bud blinked.
"Would you like some ice cream?" he asked.
"Did you take out the nuts?" asked Gideon.
Bud nodded.
And so Gideon ate the ice cream.
However he wanted the Mystery Shack, and not just for revenge anymore, there was a different reason.
He also knew about Sailor Mars and Sailor Jupiter as well.
But thankfully, Dipper and Mabel patched up about their height issue. So there's that…
Next Time: It's a Town Holiday called Summerween! Serena and the others help with Riley's family tradition. However it's a bit complicated for Dipper and Mabel... mainly because they're being stalked by a monster that plans to eat them if they don't get 500 pieces of candy, and it's not helped that he doesn't want to go trick or treating... what will happen? Find out next time!