Dear Diary:
I've been having a fun summer at Grunkle Stan's place but it's had some ups and downs. On the first day I got here I thought I found my true love. He turned out to be a whole army of dwarves that wanted to marry me and they almost stomped on my brother. I beat them down for lying to me and messing with me and my brother.
Then Grunkle Stan took me and Dipper to the lake to spend the day with him but we ditched him to find a monster in the lake but it was just a man in a robot. I felt so bad ditching Grunkle Stan but we made it up to him by spending the rest of the day fishing with him. When me and Dipper discovered Grunkly Stan's old wax figure museum, I made a wax statue of Grunkle Stan to make up for melting the Abraham Lincoln wax figure. When Wax Grunkle Stan was found murdered in the middle of the night, it was up to detective Mabel and her sidekick Dipper search for the murderer.
Turned out the murderers were all the other wax figures, including Wax Detective Basil of Baker Street who was the killer. We melted them with candles, solving the mystery. We then went to see the town's psychic even though Grunkle Stan forbade us, a kid named Gideon Graves who asked me out on a date which I said yes to. But after the first date, Gideon incessantly invited me on more dates, and I didn't know how to say no, so I said yes each time. Dipper volunteered to end my relationship with Gideon for me, making me so happy.
But Gideon got mad and tried to maim him so I broke up with Gideon and destroyed his magic amulet. On our next adventure we went to Dusk 2 Dawn with Dipper, Wendy, and her friends, and I found candy called Smile Dip. I ate about bleventeen and the next thing I knew I was riding on a flying dolphin with two mouths and multiple human fists that shot out rainbows. The store got taken over by ghosts and Ma and Pa possessed me that made me sick to her stomach.
Smile Dip is evil!
Anyways, I noticed Grunkle Stan had a 'thing' for Lazy Susan, the waitress at Greasy's Diner, so I worked some of my awesome 'Mabel matchmaking magic' to help Grunkle Stan become more attractive and appealing to Lazy Susan. I had Soos pretend to be Lazy Susan for practice's sake, and Stan spat on the ground asking if 'she' has any money, so I decided to try a different approach by bringing that inner beauty to the outside. However, the final Grunkle Stan looked worse than the original Stan, and I gave up. Wendy said that Grunkle Stan is un-fixable, just like the 'spinny pie thingy in the diner.'
I got my best idea. I marched Stan down to the diner to see Lazy Susan and she gave him him her number!
Mabel matchmaking magic works again!
When we had a party in the mystery shack I met two new friends, Grenda and Candy Chiu. They told me about Pacifica Northwest, the most popular girl in Gravity Falls. Pacifica made fun of Candy and Grenda, so I stepped up to compete with her in a competition to see who could party-hardy, singing and dancing. I won but Pacifica scared the party-goers to cheer for her, and bribed Old Man McGucket.
When everyone left to Pacifica's after-party, Candy and Grenda stayed at the Shack and have a sleepover with their new friend, me! I got two new friends!
Oh I forgot, I made two more friends named Nyx and Hoagie. Nyx is Wendy's friend Tambry's little sister who owns a pet parrot named Pericles. It's a funny name for a bird and Dipper keeps complaining that Pericles keeps giving him the creeps.
Silly brother.
Hoagie is here for a special prize the Northwests are offering in some sort of contest. The funny thing is Pacifica never mentioned anything about it and my brother Dipper is really smart! How could she not invite him?
Mean Pacifica!
And speaking of Pacific, on Pioneer Day Pacifica said I was too silly and not serious. This made me angry and embarrassed, so I went with Dipper to find the true founder of Gravity falls. We went through many puzzles that I solved myself we found the real founder, a guy named Quentin Trembley, we also find out that he was once the 8-and-a-half president of America. Sheriff Blubs and Deputy Durland found us and sent us, along with Trembley's body, to Washington D.C.
On the way there, we freed Trembley who actually survived by encasing himself in peanut brittle. They free themselves and eventually return to Gravity Falls. I didn't want to prove Pacifica wrong anymore, but this did not stop Dipper and he told Pacifica that her ancestor is a fraud. The whole adventure made me realize I want to become president and have Grenda as my bodyguard.
I made another new friend, my new pig Waddles and after I got a time device from some weird guy I went back in time to remember my greatest moment in my life: adopting Waddles. Oh and Dipper wanted to use it to stop Robbie from dating Wendy which I helped with but it lead to me not adopting Waddles! I fought my brother and we went through time, finally ending up in the timeline where I didn't have Waddles. I gave up but Dipper gave in and reversed the timeline so I could have Waddles, making me so happy to have my friend and a good brother.
When I found out Grunkle Stan had a fear of heights I tricked him onto climbing the water tower with a blindfold in an attempt to help him get over his fear. After Rumble knocked over the tower, I ended up getting my own fear of heights, while having cured Stan of his own. I then found out I grew taller than Dipper by one millimeter which made me happy because I got to get him back for all the times he rubbed his victories in my face. But Dipper found a crystal to make himself taller and when I confronted him about it Gideon stole the crystal and shrunk us.
He took us to his home but we escaped and chased him back to the Shack by using a balloon. But Gideon captured them again. Inside his pocket, I told Dipper the only reason I made fun of him was because he always rubbed his victories in my face and even when we were tiny, that I kept my millimeter. We made up and escaped.
We tickled him, and Grunkle Stan kicked him out of the Shack. We regrew ourselves, and Dipper let me keep my millimeter.
I then made a bet with Grunkle Stan: whoever makes more money in three days is in charge for the remainder of the summer. Using techniques I learned from Succeeding In Management 1983, I encouraged my employees to follow their dreams and accepted suggestions from them. But the workers began to take advantage of me, and things become extremely complicated when the Gremloblin I had Dipper capture escaped from his cage, terrorized tourists, and damaged merchandise, properties of the Mystery Shack, and the building.
After we took it down I ended up bossing around my workers like Grunkle Stan and made a large profit in doing so. But, due to various expenses, I was left with a single dollar; nonetheless, meanwhile I still beat Grunkle Stan in the game show, whose total was nothing. But seeing what being in charge had turned me into I turned down being in charge but I forced Grunkle Stan to perform the apology dance he agreed to do if he lost. On the hottest day of the summer, I met a merman by the name of Mermando, who was trapped at the Gravity Falls Pool and my second love.
I came up with a plan to free him, first by building prosthetic legs out of fish sticks, but decided on smuggling him in the Pool's water cooler and driving to the Lake Gravity Falls with the Mystery Cart. Dipper tried to stop me after following me in a high-speed race to the lake but helped me out when he found out about Mermando. Mermando nearly suffocates without water, but I convinced Dipper to give him reverse CPR. After he was saved, Mermando gave me my first kiss before saying goodbye. Later I got several messages in bottles from him.
Then there was the adventure of swapping bodies that shall be not be spoken of, EVER! Along with the my favorite band that I rescued from their mean producer but I let them go, realizing they needed to be free. Rescuing Waddles from a dinosaur after Grunkle Stan left him outside, WHICH I TOLD HIM NOT TO DO! I didn't speak to him until he saved Waddles from being eaten and after I did I forgave him.
And now I have found my third and hopefully true love, Gabe Benson.
Oh, Gabe Benson, I could just stare in your eyes for the rest of my life!
I am planning a big puppet show just for him and I know he will love it and then he will love me!
I can't wait for this Friday!
Xxx
"The mind and innocence of a child is a truly wonderful gift. They look and see the world in ways we all can help but love. As we grow people will tell us that we need to grow up but you know what? That kind of saying is what makes life stop being so interesting." TOM lectured as the file entry on Mabel's diary was closed. "We all got imagination, we all got something to love, and we all got a life to enjoy. So why not enjoy it? You have that freedom no matter who says otherwise because it's always boiled down to what your choice is."
Xxx
"Darklands, such a simple name. Not the place people would come to see for the sites, if there was anything of interest to see. Aside from the Dark Substance that pumps like blood through the veins of this entire land." Sammael noted, glancing out the window to see the land surrounding his sanctuary. "It would be an interesting place to wake up to if the sun could be seen. And if only we could sleep."
Sammael turned away from the window, facing the dark shadow of Moloch who had appeared in his chamber. "Those that know of us think of us as only monsters. And yet like them we can draw strength from that which makes us passionate, what we desire and the very emotions that makes us almost…Human."
Moloch snorted. "Sounds like you almost wish you were one of them."
"It would appear that way, wouldn't it?" Sammael took a step forward, his face showing a look of disappointment and irritation. "But I have seen this in others like us, including you Moloch. You were to retrieve the remainder of the test subjects of Van Kleiss lost in the land of Nowhere and instead you let your pride blind you, try to bury them alive only to allow them to be snatched. I thought you of all people would be above making such mistakes."
Moloch narrowed his eyes. "Do you believe you can lecture me? They were strong and they possibly could have grown strong enough to be a threat."
"And now they have beyond our sight. I can only confirm that the ghost girl might be somewhere in Japan as we speak while two of them vanished into China. You know what place exists in China that can be shielded from us." Sammael replied, his eyes flashing for a second. "As for the girl whose powers I attempted to take. I cannot sense where she is either. You were careless; Beast and you let them slip through your very fingers."
Moloch growled, taking a step forward but Sammael moved even faster, appearing right in front of the Beast and grabbed it by the antlers. There was a snapping sound as Moloch fell to the ground, growling as his head had done a complete 180, courtesy of Sammael who gave him a good kick to the chest while he was down.
"What is most amazing about us is that our unique abilities allow us to shrug off wounds that would have killed a lesser being. A snapped neck is treated by us as a mortal would treat a broken wrist. Hurtful but can be healed almost instantly with the right amount of effort." Sammael commented, watching as Moloch twisted his head back to normal. "And you walked away with even less than that. Is your confidence in your own abilities really that low? Well, you can rest easy since that matter is now moot. We can deal with them at a later time."
Moloch growled again as he stood up but a look from Sammael kept him from getting any more ideas.
"In the meantime, I have to see into something else about our friend, Bill Cipher." Sammael moved to the doors.
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"Guh!"
A black haired boy was slammed into the wall, groaning in pain as he slid down into the ground.
"Still not strong enough." A voice spoke softly and yet emitted a primal sounding growl at the same time.
The boy looked up with glaring brown eyes at the person who spoke. He was a thin and scrawny boy, shoulder-length black hair, pale skin with black-discolored marks around his eyes. He wore a torn black T-shirt, black studded arm bands, brown cargo pants, black knee-length shoes, and a padlock necklace.
"You've learned to control your power and your anger but you still have long way to go." The man who had been training him said softly.
He was a tall, middle-aged, very muscular and unusually broad man with dark skin. He was bald but had a small mustache. He wore a black sleeveless shirt under a dark coat and dark green camouflage pants and boots. He had been appointed at the boy's mentor, training him to not only fight but control the powers the boy possessed, learn how to focus and channel them to become what he had been offered: strong enough to take revenge on someone he hated.
The man was a harsh but effective trainer who accepted no excuses and no shows of weakness or failure.
This is what led him into the employ of the one who placed the boy and one other under his care.
"Ha!"
The man moved as a shadow jumped out and attempted to slash at his back but he simply side-stepped the attack and simply shoved his attacker to the floor. The person let out a grunt but spun around, revealing it was a girl with dark skin, dreadlocks falling over her face and covering one eye while she was dressed in dark cargo pants, a dark red shirt that exposed her belly, black arm-length fingerless gloves and she was holding two sais in her hands. Lastly from the top of her head two red fox ears poked themselves out from her hair.
She gripped her blades before darting forward, using her natural speed and flexibility to avoid the man's powerful hits, though he was no slow poke himself. Finally she did a handless cartwheel away from her opponent.
In that single motion she kicked him in his jaw and aimed her blades directly at her trainer's chest but they bounced off his Aura shield.
"You should have aimed for my throat instead of my armored abdomen." He stood back up and turned away. "The very least you could have done was aim for a part that would have paralyzed me."
The girl slowly lowered her blades and that was her mistake.
The man spun around and backhanded her into the wall. "And your final mistake was letting your guard down just because you believed the fight was over."
The girl let out a cough as she struggled to get back up.
"Hatchet."
The man calmly turned around as the doors opened and in walked Sammael who took the chance to glance at the boy before turning back to who he came to see and the girl who glared at him with pure hate. "How are our new friends progressing?"
"The boy's control over his powers has improved." Hatchet said simply, offering neither praise nor criticism. "We are improving his fighting skills. The girl will be prepared."
"Good. Mandy will need a strong fighter with her and speaking of which, Mandy is the reason I am here." Sammael waited for the boy to stand up. "Her first mission has hit an obstacle on her way into Gravity Falls. It seems Bill Cipher has learned to how create warriors capable of standing up to not only Hunters but also Fallen. He's even created the closest thing a being like him can have for a child. I am now in need of someone to go there and rescue her before Cipher's worshipers dissect her."
"You are not worried she'll give away secrets?" Hatchet asked.
Sammael smirked. "Far from worried."
"And you wish to send Kevin?" Hatchet glanced to the black haired boy.
"He has experience and I am confident in your ability to train anyone to be strong enough, Hatchet."
Sammael wasn't one to give praise without truth and he was right about Hatchet. Even among the other members of the Invisible Hand that Sammael had assembled Hatchet was class all on his own. Jujunga had his mastery of poison and survival skills, Gentle-Jim had his charm and skills with a blade, I and Am had their teamwork and trap-making skills and Boris had his strength and unstoppable fury.
Hatchet had the strength and skills of over ten of them.
A master combatant with immense strength while also trained to heal, skilled in weapon use, intelligent in the art of educating promising disciples, wise in diplomacy to gain more allies and possessed the ruthlessness needed to carry out the missions Sammael would give him.
"You want me to rescue Mandy?" Kevin finally spoke, suppressing the urge to shiver when Sammael's red eyes gazed at him.
"Yes." Sammael answered, smirking slightly. "I believe you are more than prepared. And it will better prepare you what will be expected of you."
"And me?" The girl finally spoke.
Sammael's smirk widened slightly. "Not yet. You still need more training, Miss Cree."
Xxx
'Leverage, position, advantage.'
Abigail Lincoln twirled her practice sword in her hand, making several swings as she twirled around the clearing that was the training area she, Nigel and Wally liked to practice in. The tournament was over and Abby was pleased how far she had come even though she had run into someone from her past but it only served to motivate her even more. That was why she was out right now, taking some extra time to train for when she was ready to use a real weapon, her weapon.
"You got a long road ahead little girl so don't repress your gifts forever."
Monty Uno had surprised her and Nigel by revealing he had a working knowledge of swordsmanship, specifically in the art of fencing, when both had made plans for their future weapons to be swords. So he began teaching them both, lecturing them on the balance and economy of movement, encouraging precision and efficiency and emphasizing on footwork to follow a single line, front and back, shifting the feet to keep in perfect balance while advancing or retreating.
"He was killed…By Cree."
Abby bit her lip as she practiced even harder, making several swings.
"Because he believed in the Satyra enough that he wanted to join them, hand you over to them and when he tried to find you he was killed by his own sister. You should remember he spread the word of Satyra throughout the village we lived in. He believed that the Satyra could change everything of how the Faunus and Mobians were treated here and all across the world."
Abby somersaulted back, twirling and dancing through the clearing.
"They did not. You parents betrayed them."
Abby swung her practice sword, stopping just short of hitting a tree, breathing heavily from exhaustion and exhilaration.
…
…
…
"Wow."
Abby gasped, spinning around in the direction of the voice that startled her. Nigel was in the clearing, looking awestruck at her.
"That was amazing."
Abby shuffled, slightly uncomfortable. "How long were you there?"
"Just got here." Nigel took a step forward. "Trying some new moves without me?"
"Uh…" Abby sighed, dropping her practice sword. "I just needed to blow off some steam. I've had a lot on my mind."
"Is this about that Valerie girl?" Nigel asked carefully.
Abby took her hat off, wiping some sweat off her forehead. "Yeah…Can we talk?"
Xxx
"Do you believe her?" Nigel asked, staring up at the sky under the branches of the tree the two of them sat against.
"I don't know…Cree left me at your home so I want to believe she wanted to protect me. But killing our brother?" Abby looked away. "And lately, I've been hearing voices."
"Good thing I hear them too or I might suggest you see a shrink." Nigel joked, snickering even as Abby lightly punched him on the shoulder. "You think it's a previous Candy Elemental, don't you?"
"Yeah." Abby held up a hand. "I promised Cree I'd never show this power and keep it hidden. But lately, I feel it growing…It's woken up and I don't think I can keep it hidden anymore."
"Then don't." Nigel said, earning a surprised look from Abby. "Cree told you about Sammael and we were almost killed by one of his goons. Trying to keep it hidden and not learn how to use it seems pretty stupid to me. We got to be ready, Abbs."
Abby looked down at the ground. "Easy for you to say, Nigel. You had one dream and then it seems like you are an expert on the matter."
"I wish." Nigel chuckled. "I can't control when I dream this Ice Elemental stuff, I have to learn how to use this power cause none of my past lives will give me a manual and if I am not careful I might freeze my room again. At least you'd wake up in a room full of candy. You'd have to be crazy not to like that."
Abby actually snickered. "Yeah…Candy Elemental. When Cree told me about the Elementals I thought it was odd for an elemental to be candy or slime but I could understand ice and fire. Then Cree took the time to explain that candy was important too, that it was a representation of innocence and purity in a world where darkness and destruction was strong."
"And slime?" Nigel asked.
"She had no clue on that one." Abby laughed along with Nigel. "But I think you are right, Nigel. I need to learn more about my powers…I need to understand where I fit into where we are going. Learning to Hunters, fighting monsters and bad guys and trying to find what's left of my family…And protecting my new family."
They both smiled and looked up at the sky, finding peace as they watched the sun slowly descend.
Xxx
"This is Peridot, updating status. Still stuck on this miserable planet... The fusion experiments are developing properly. A few have even emerged early." Peridot recorded as the platform rose back up to the surface.
It had been a trying few cycles for the Gem named Peridot.
Starting from the beginning: the Warp Pad had been destroyed, her machines had been wrecked, her ship had been destroyed which left her stranded and the only good thing she had managed to find so far was confirmation that the fusion experiments were coming along nicely.
That meant the Cluster would be emerging shortly.
"Peridot!"
"There she is!"
Peridot gasped, spotting the Crystal Gems charging straight towards her and took off, running as fast as she could, running directly towards a dead end.
"Nowhere to go!" Amethyst called out.
"You're cornered!" Pearl shouted.
But to their surprise Peridot scaled the wall, running up it. Pearl hurled her spear up at Peridot who ducked, grinning as she looked back. "Ha! Missed!"
Pearl's spear hit an Injector, dissipating as the Injector collapsed and hit Peridot on the way down. Peridot shrieked as the Injector hit the ground harshly on top of her. A second later, Peridot emerged from the rubble and tried to flee.
Amethyst laughed, lashing out her whip, tethering Peridot. "Gotcha!"
Peridot turned around, glaring as she placed a finger on the whip and generated an electrical current, electrifying the whip with the tip of her finger.
"Whoa! Hot whip!" Amethyst dropped her whip, growling at Peridot who took running again.
"You Crystal Clods! Go ahead! Wreck this place! See if I care! I already got what I needed!"
"Get back here!" Pearl called out, chasing after the green Gem with Amethyst.
Peridot's fingers turned into helicopter-blades, lifting her from the ground away from the Crystal Gems, laughing manically as she flew away.
"I'm gonna bop her good!" Amethyst proclaimed, still chasing after the green Gem.
"I'll help!" Pearl agreed, following after her.
Garnet stopped, seeing something was wrong. If Peridot had been sent to reactivate the Kindergarten the Injectors would be activated. So if she wasn't sent to reactivate the Kindergarten what was she doing here? Turning towards the platform Garnet jumped down, sliding down to the control room of the Kindergarten.
She spotted cylinders in the walls of the control room, looking like they had been pulled out. "It looks like she pulled these out of the walls. Something strange."
A noise came out from a dirt pillar as she came close to it. The pillar shook as something fell from the ceiling. Garnet turned around and watched as strange creatures fell from the ceiling. They all resembled different colored limbs, glued together and all of them showing dark streaks across their bodies.
Grunting in horror Garnet poofed the creature and grabbed its Gem. Seeing it was two shards fused together, she threw it away in disgust. The dirt pillar exploded, revealing a much larger and grotesque version of these fusions that rose from the pillar in the form of a dark smoky light, though it was still fusing with difficulty. The four shards attempted to form their own bodies, but are pulled back together into the gem.
With screams of agony and terror as they attempted to escape but failed, they form a creature that resembled a giant hand with glowed red eyes. Garnet stared in absolute horror as the creature approached, knocking her glasses off her face as it placed its hands on her.
The Ruby half of Garnet began to cry out of Garnet's right eye, seeing what the abomination in front of her really was. "These were Crystal Gems, shattered into pieces. They were buried together inside the Dark Substance…They were forced together with the essence of Grimm... They were forced to fuse with Grimm! This is wrong! Uh, uh, I'm sorry."
Garnet started to unfuse, the sheer terror becoming too much for her. The dark smoky substance the creatures emitted started traveling down her face.
How could they?
How could they?
HOW COULD THEY?!
"GARNET!"
Garnet regained her composure as a voice shouted in her mind, realizing something else was wrong.
'Steven!' Garnet formed back together and quickly poofed the fusion monster, watching the Gem shards fell to the ground in front of her which she picked up.
"So this is what Homeworld thinks of fusion! They were looking for ways to create Gem with Grimm powers!" The Ruby half of Garnet raged.
"We couldn't have known they would do this..." The Sapphire half argued.
"This is where they've been. All the ones we couldn't find. They've been here the whole time!"
"Rose couldn't have known."
"This is punishment for the Rebellion!"
Garnet's Sapphire half was sobbing. "It's not our fault!"
She sent the infected Gem Shards into the Burning Room, realizing what was needed to be done.
"Yo." Amethyst entered the control room with Pearl. "We're back."
"Garnet, we lost Peridot. Her fingers were too fast for us." Two fused hands climbed up on Amethyst, surprising Pearl. "Um..."Pearl grabbed them. "What are these things?"
"Put them down!" Garnet shouted angrily.
"Wha..." Pearl threw the hands away, shocked by how angry Garnet was acting.
"We need to poof and bubble all of them. We can't let any escape and we need to get back to Beach City!"
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From a cliff showing Beach City Vilgax stared down at the small town with complete contempt and scorn.
He was only here for one purpose: retrieve the Omnitrix.
And he wouldn't let anyone stop him.
Not Tennyson.
Not any Gems.
No one would get in his way.