Gideon was in his room, checking his journal, the one with the number two, he was looking for a way to revenge from the Pines family. He mumbled all his options. - "Zombie attack? Never works they wouldn't take any orders. Blood rain, ew! Mess on my soup, no thank you. Demon caterpillars!" -He shut the book angrily. - "There must be a perfect way to exact vengeance on the Pines family! It's not enough to harm them. I need to take something from them. Something that'll give me ultimate power." -He thought aloud trying to figure out something, then he realized it. - "
Wait! Of course!" -he took a little Mystery Shack model. - "It's perfect."
Back at the Mystery Shack, the Pines were watching T.V. when someone ringed their doorbell. Stan opened the door. - "WELCOME TO A WORLD OF MITERY!" -He greeted his new guest.
- "Stan Pines?" -The man asked him.
- "The tax collector! YOU FOUND ME!" -Stan panicked, threw a smoke bomb and tried to run away, taking a bag full of money with him and looking for a trap door to escape, leaving the kids behind.
- "Mr. Pines!" -The man reached him. - "I'm from the winning house coupon savers contest, and YOU ARE OUR BIG WINNER!" -He celebrated and a cameraman appeared, followed by two women in fancy dresses carrying a giant check.
- "My one and only dream, which was to possess money, has come true." -Stan was happy.
- "We're rich! I'm gonna get a butler!" -Dipper was excited.
- "I'm gonna buy a talking horse." -Mabel said excitedly.
- "Just sign here for the money." -The man asked Stan.
- "You bet!" -Stan yelled while signing the paper.
Suddenly, Gideon appeared from behind the giant check and started to showoff his victory. - "HA! Stanford, you fool! You just signed over the Mystery Shack to widdle ol' me!" -
- "Ahm! You may wanna, take another look there." -Stan was confident.
Gideon checked the paper. - "The Shack is hereby signed over to SUCK A LEMON LITTLE MAN!" -Gideon was furious and Stan and the twins laughed. -How dare you?! I am not afraid to be taken lightly!" -He asked to be lifted. - "Come here hon, I need your arms." -The man lifted Gideon. - "I'll get you Stanford Pines! I'll get you all!" -They left.
- "Wanna see what else's on T.V.?" -Stan asked the twins and they went back to the T.V.
- "Yeah, all right. My favorite part is the theme song." -Mabel said. (A/N: Did she just break the fourth wall?)
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Mabel and Dipper were playing chess while Pacifica looked at them and Soos was working.
- "Little guy to black space nine." -Mabel said in her turn.
- "That's a pawn, that's not your color, and stop stealing the tiny horses." -Dipper scolded her.
- "You sure you know how to play?" -Pacifica asked her but Mabel ignored her.
- "They like it better in here. Don't you babies?" -Mabel cradled the pieces.
- "And… checkmate!" -Dipper won the game.
- "What?! Boo!" -Mabel booed.
Dipper took a notebook and recorded a new victory. - "Dipper wins again!" -
- "My turn. Let's see if you can beat me! I've played with my dad since I was six years old!" -Pacifica dared him with a broad smile and started to accommodate the pieces back for a new game. - "Or, are you afraid of losing against a girl?!" -
- "Come on Paz! I'm not like that! I don't mind losing against a girl as long as it's a fair play." -he smiled at her.
- "Mabel can you pass me that brain in the jar? The lady one?" -Soos asked her.
- "I got it!" -Dipper got up.
- "Thanks but, Mabel's taller." -
- "What?! No, she's not! We're the same height, we've always been." -Dipper protested.
- "Better check again dude!" -Soos put them together and measured them. - "Yup! She's got exactly one millimeter on you." -
- "What!" -
- "Whoaa! Don't you see what's happening Dipper? This millimeter is just the beginning. I'm evolving into the superior sibling! BIGGER! STRONGER!" -Mabel seemed happy.
- "Some kind of alpha twin." -Soos said.
- "ALPHA TWIN! ALPHA TWIN!" -Mabel showed off.
- "Come on guys, nobody even uses millimeters. It only makes you taller than me in Canada." -
- "On the contrary Dipper. Mabel is taller than you in most of the world." -Pacifica added.
- "You know Dipper, I've always wanted a little brother. Who knew I already had one!" -Mabel laughed.
Then, Stan came in. - "I was awoken by the sound of mockery. Where is it? Show me the object of ridicule." -He was expectant.
- "I'm taller than Dipper!" -Mabel mocked.
- "By one millimeter." -he countered.
- "Hey, hey! Don't get… short with your sister." -Stan mocked too and laughed.
- "No, grunkle Stan, I hope you don't think… widdle of him." -
- "Haha! Yeah! And… and ahm… He's short!" -Mabel and Stan were having fun, but Dipper was already pissed.
- "Dude! Maybe you should lay off a tiny bit." -Soos suggested and Pacifica agreed with him.
- "HA! Tiny! Soos is at it now!" -Stan congratulated him and they kept laughing. Dipper left, followed by Pacifica.
- "N… No! I didn't mean that." -Soos replied.
- "Dipper will forget, he's got a 3… 2… 1… SHORT TERM MEMORY!" -Mabel said and she and Stan said the last part together and laughed even more. - "Whoo! We're on fire!" -She yelled and she and Stan high fived. That hurt Stan. - "I high five hard." -
Dipper was in his walking back and forth, Pacifica just sat close, looking at him. - "Stupid Mabel! I'm not short." -He went for his journal but it was out of his reach. - "Oh! Come on!" -
- "Do you need a hand?" -Pacifica asked him but he ignored her. He kicked the furniture and the journal fell on his hands. - "There's gotta be some way to get taller." -He flipped through the pages. - "Let's see. Legends of miniature buffalo and giant squirrels have led me to believe there are height altering properties hidden deep within in the forest." -He read aloud.
- "Do you think this is a good idea?" -Pacifica asked him.
He looked at her and noticed she seemed worried. - "Don't worry, it won't hurt anyone." -He brushed her cheek kindly with his thump and went to the door. - "Wanna come with me?" -He asked the now flustered Pacifica, she didn't answer, just followed him.
- "So much for a guy that don't mind been defeated by a girl." -Tikki whispered at Pacifica's ear.
They ventured deep in the forest looking for something they didn't know when Dipper tripped and fell off, Pacifica went for him and asked him if he was ok.
When Dipper recovered, he found a tini tiny deer over him, both kids were surprised, then an equally tiny eagle passed by them. Then, they saw a mountain lion at the distance.
- "Is that mountain lion tiny, or just faraway in perspective?" -He asked. The lion attacked them and both kids hugged each other in fear. - "Perspective! Perspective! AAAAHHH!" -
The lion passed by a purple ray of light and shrunk to a size that could be kept in one of their hands, It fell inside Pacifica's jacket and tickled her, the lion got to her hand and bit her thump.
- "It still hurts, but less." -She said happily.
Both kids kept going and found a giant crystal in the forest. They checked it and saw how it radiated two kinds of light under sunlight, one blue, and one purple. The purple shrinks, and the blue enlarges.
- "What the heck?" -They asked at the same time.
Dipper took his screwdriver and took a little sample of the crystal. They went back to the Shack where Dipper fixed a flashlight and put the crystal on it in a way that could turn it around to use both lights at will. He tested it and it worked. He was quite happy but Pacifica didn't know how to feel. They went downstairs to meet Mabel and Soos again.
- "I've been buying big clothes. I'll grow into them." -Mabel explained.
Dipper got in with Pacifica beside him. - "Hey guys. Notice anything different on me?" -He asked them and Soos checked on him.
- "Holy hot sauce! You've grown and extra millimeter." -
- "W… W… What?!" -Mabel didn't believe it and went to stand beside Dipper to compare heights again.
- "What can I say sis, grow spurt." -Dipper mocked her.
- "Nah! Mine happened first. I'm gonna be taller in the end. It's science Dipper." -Mabel countered.
- "What?! But we're the same height now!" -
- "Alpha twin! Alpha twin!" -
- "Oh yeah?! Something tells me I've got another grow spurt coming on right now." -Dipper left and went to his room.
Pacifica sighed and rolled her eyes. - "Let's go." -She offered her hand to Mabel and they went behind Dipper.
Mabel and Pacifica got in the room. - "Give it up Dipper! Huuuh!" -She was surprised to see Dipper taller than her. She checked him closer. - "What happened?" -
- "You know, puberty and stuff." -
- "Doesn't make any sense! Just a second ago yours… Wait a minute! This is some kind of magic thing, isn't it? Was it a wizard or something? There's a wizard in the closet, isn't there? Isn't there?" -Mabel became suspicious.
- "What?! No!" -Dipper became defensive.
- "You're telling me there is not a wizard in this closet! You're telling me that if I open this door right now…" -
- "Fine! Open it!" -
Mabel opened the door and looked inside. - "An invisible wizard! Really Dipper?" -Mabel was getting mad. - "Does he only respond to incantations? ESPECTO WIZARIUM! WIZARD! WIZARD!" -Mabel kept trying and Dipper was having fun.
- "It's not a wizard! He grew himself using this magic flashlight!" -Pacifica said holding the flashlight.
- "Let me see that thing!" -Mabel went to her to grab the flashlight, but Dipper was a little bit faster, he snatched the flashlight from Pacifica's hand and ran away with it, with Mabel close behind him. - "I'll be back for you later." -Mabel threatened the closet and ran off, with Pacifica behind her.
Meanwhile this happened, Stan had to deal with Gideon again, this time the kid brought some sort of evil bugs that would eat the whole Shack and everyone inside and threatened him with releasing them. Stan didn't waste time and went a step ahead of the kid and released the bugs before him and they attacked him instead.
Mabel and Dipper kept fighting for the flashlight and they got to the front yard, Pacifica close behind them asking them to stop. At some point, Dipper dropped the flashlight and it turned on with the blue light, a tiny caterpillar that was there got hit by the light and became giant, it went away destroying a few things on its way.
Mabel took the flashlight and used it on her hand, which grew a little, scaring Mabel.
- "It's ok, it can shrink too." -Dipper took the flashlight and turned it to the shrinking side, he pointed at Mabel's hand and shrunk it to its normal size. She slapped the flashlight from Dipper's hand, took it and ran away.
By this point, Pacifica was tired of this and went for a snack inside the Shack.
Mabel shoot at Dipper and enlarged his head, he almost fell, snatched the flashlight and shrunk Mabel's head. They kept fighting over the flashlight a little more, until it flew away and fell in front of Gideon, he took it out of curiosity and looked at the twins.
- "My… My… What is this?" -He wondered aloud.
- "Maybe he didn't see us using it and doesn't know it's a magic flashlight that can grow and shrink things." -Mabel whispered at Dipper, unfortunately, they were right in front of Gideon and he heard her.
- "Really?" -Dipper asked her angrily.
Gideon tested the flashlight a couple of times, and when the twins tried to take the flashlight back, he shoot them with it and shrunk them to a bug's size, he laughed while the twins hugged each other in fear. Gideon put the twins into a glass jar and took them with him.
Pacifica saw all that, and when the twins were shrunk, she hid behind the couch and looked how Gideon took them away.
- "Sigh… This is what they get for fighting each other for non-sense." -Tikki said disapproving the twins' behavior.
- "At least they have someone to fight with each other." -Pacifica said a little sad. Tikki turned to her and they looked at each other in the eyes.
- "You got a point there. I really miss fighting and discussing with my sisters and my boyfriend." -Tikki explained.
- "I know right. Wait… Do you have sisters?! DO YOU HAVE A BOYFRIEND?" -Pacifica asked astonished.
- "Yeah! I do." -Tikki said rubbing her neck, blushing. - "My big sister Nooroo, and my little sister Pollen." -
- "Where are them?" -Pacifica was really interested.
- "Well, Nooroo has been missing for a long time. I don't lose hope and want to find her someday." -Tikki explained saddened.
- "I'm sorry." -Pacifica apologized.
- "Don't be. It's not your fault." -Tikki wiped her tears and caressed Pacifica's cheek, they smiled at each other.
- "What about your other sister?" -
- "Well, she's closer than you think, she´s Queen Bee's Kwami! I wasn't expecting to find her so soon, but anyway, I'm really happy she's back and awaken." -Pollen seemed really happy.
- "Really?! That's great! I'm happy for you. And what about your boyfriend?" -Pacifica got in gossip mode, and Tikki looked at her with a 'guess what' look. - "NO!" -Pacifica was astonished when she put two and two together. - "Seriously?!" -She was fangirling.
- "Yep!" -
- "Totally?!"-
- "Absolutely."
- "KYAAA!" -Pacifica was overjoyed. - "Black Cat's Kwami is your boyfriend! I don't believe it! That's incredible! It's awesome! It's… It's…" -She thought about something crazy.
- "Does that mean that Black Cat and Ladybug are meant for each other?" -She asked. Looking straight at Tikki's eyes.
- "Not necessarily. There are many factors that affect people's compatibility. For example, the last Ladybug and Black Cat weren't together in the end, not like they didn't want to. But due to some circumstances, each one took a different path in life." -That made Pacifica sigh in sadness and… enthusiasm?
- "What's wrong?" -Tikki asked her concerned.
- "I don't know, a part of me is sad because me and Black Cat aren't necessarily meant for each other, but the other part is happy to know that maybe, I can be with someone else I like." -Pacifica explained.
- "Someone like Dipper?" -Tikki asked her mischievously, making Pacifica blush. Tikki kept teasing Pacifica a little more and they giggled a little, but suddenly, Tikki became serious. - "Anyway, if we don't hurry and go to save Dipper and Mabel, you might lose your chance to be with him too." -
- Oh! Right! Let's go!" -Pacifica looked for an isolated place, transformed in Ladybug and rush to Gideon's house.
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Once in Gideon's house, he took the twins straight to his room, he let them fall on his nightstand. - "You two!" -
- "What are you gonna do to us?" -Mabel asked him.
- "Haha! Mabel! I wouldn't hurt a hair on your itty bity head, If you agree to be my queen!" -Gideon said sweetly, but then changed to threaten.
- "WE LIVE AT A DEMOCRACY! AND NEVER!" -She countered fearless.
- "Maybe you'll change your mind after… THIS!" -He picked her up and she struggled and fought back, until she saw that he was offering a full bag of gummy koalas, then she surrendered and ate the candies.
- "And, as for you boy!" -Gideon turned to Dipper and put a lamp's light on him. - "TELL ME! How exactly did you come up this magic item? Somebody told you about it? Did you read about it somewhere?" -He interrogated Dipper.
Dipper covered his journal a little better. - "Lean closer and I'll tell you." -Dipper said and Gideon leaned closer to him and Dipper used an air horn. The sound made Gideon yell from pain in his ears, he was pretty mad.
- "I SHOULD SQUISH YOU RIGHT NOW!" -He realized what he was about to do and calmed himself. - "Stiff yourself Gideon. You can use them… You can use them." -H e called the Shack's by phone and talked to Stan.
- "Stanford Pines, listen to me closely. I have your niece and nephew, hand over the deed of the Mystery Shack right now or great harm will befall them! This is Gideon by the way." -
- "HAHAHA! Oh yeah! This is gonna be your worst plot yet. They're fine, I saw them playing in the yard minutes ago." -
- "I have them in my possession! You don't believe me! I will text you a photo!" -
- "Text me a photo, now you're not even speaking English." -Stan hung up, making Gideon so mad that he smashed his phone on the wall. Then, he started to laugh maniacally.
- "HAHAHAHA! What am I doing? I don't need ransom. I have THIS!" -He took the flashlight. - "I will shrink Stan and take the Shack for myself. You'll be helpless to stop me, and if any of you step out of line, SMASH!" -He destroyed the wooden figures based on them, scaring them a lot, he laughed a little more and then, his dad called him to tell him that his ice cream truck arrived. - "Coming!" -He yelled back, but before he left, he let out his hamster from its cage in front of the twins. - "Guard them Cheekums. I'm coming!" -He left.
A hamster doesn't seem like a big threat, but when you're an inch big, it actually looks very dangerous. Dipper gulped at it. - "P… Plagg? Are you there?" -He called for his friend.
- "S… Sorry pal, too tired and weakened. It seems that your flashlight not just shrink things, but my powers too. Duuuuhhh! What a headache!" -Plagg answered him with a tired and dizzy voice.
- "Dang it!" -Dipper then turned to Mabel, he got to her and heard her swear too. - "Who are you talking to?" -He asked her, startling her a little.
- "N… No one! With myself! You know me! I'm weird!" -She answered hurriedly and seemed nervous, biting another gummy. Dipper was concerned but shrugged it off.
- "Anyway, there's no time for this. We gotta get out of here and save Stan!" -
- "I know! I will see you later." -She put the gummy over her sweater.
- Ok, how are we gonna do this? Gideon's got magic and like, a zillion inches on us. On the bright side, at least we're finally the same height again." -
- "Actually…" -Mabel got out of the gummies bag and took a rule to check their heights.
- "You still taller?! Ugh! How did this happen?!" -Dipper was angry.
- "I guess it's another mystery." -Mabel was very happy
- "Just another reason we got to get that flashlight back!" -Dipper went to check his options to get down from the nightstand, he saw a brush and got an idea. Using Gideon's hair stuck in the brush, they made a rope and went down, they managed to go downstairs and found Gideon and his dad eating ice cream in the living room. Gideon asked his dad to take him to the Mystery Shack, but he couldn't for work and started to tickle him.
- "DON'T TICKLE ME!" -Gideon yelled and threw the ice cream bucket to the wall. - "NEVER! NEVER TICKLE ME! What have… What have I told you? Look at me! What have I told you?!" -
- "Tickling is not laughing matter." -His dad was ashamed.
- "There we go." -
- "Do you still need a ride?" -His dad asked him.
- "I'll just take the bus." -Gideon left.
- "Precious memories." -His dad said sitting comfortably on the couch, while his wife hid in house chores to avoid their problems.
Dipper and Mabel saw a chance to get out and ran to the door, just about when they got to it, the door was abruptly slammed open. - "GIDEON GLEEFUL! RELEASE YOUR HOSTAGES right… now?" -Ladybug yelled pointing inside the house to an astonished couple of adults, she blushed in embarrassment and was about to leave when.
- "Ladybug! HEY! LADYBUG! DOWN HERE!" -She barely heard two voices yelling at her and looked at the floor where she found Dipper and Mabel.
- "AWW! You look so cute!" -She picked them and tickled them with a finger, looking at them with dreamy eyes.
- "Thank God you're here! How did you know we were here?" -Dipper asked her.
- "Your friend Pacifica. She contacted me and told me about what happened to you, but I was skeptical about the 'shrinking' part, but I guess she told the truth."-
- "Phew! Thank God Pacifica saw what happened and called you. I better get her a gift for this." -Dipper said gratefully, but then he got worried. - "Wait a minute! If she's still at the Shack, she's in danger too! WE HAVE TO HURRY!" -He was very worried.
- "Aw! You're worried for your girlfriend! So cute!" -Mabel teased him.
- "SHE'S NOT MY/HIS GIRLFRIEND!" -Dipper and Ladybug yelled at the same time, both blushing in embarrassment.
- "Wait, what?" -Mabel asked Ladybug.
- "Nothing." -She answered still flustered. - "We better go." -She looked for a safe place to put the twins, because she would need her hands to go faster to the Shack, but she didn't have any pockets, her shoulders weren't a good option, she put her hand on her chest, but seeing at Dipper's red tomato face, that was discarded.
- "What about your head? We'll be safe holding ourselves with your hair." -Mabel suggested and they agreed to that.
Ladybug put both kids on her head. - "All right, hold tight guys. We need to get to the Shack before Gideon." -And left the house, leaving Bob Gleeful and his wife perplexed, they looked at each other, and then to the void.
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Ladybug rushed to the Shack as fast as she could, but she got there a little too late. She saw how Gideon stomped in the Shack and used the flashlight to shrink the first person at sight. - "The Shack is mine Stanford pines!" -he yelled.
- "NO!" -The twins yelled. They both thought that Stan was caught by Gideon, but it wasn't him, it was Soos.
- "GIDEON!" -Ladybug yelled and he ran away from her, dropping the flashlight.
- "Wait. Ladybug, please regrow us before you chase him, we can help you to stop him." -Dipper said and Ladybug stopped on her tracks and considered her options.
- "Sorry guys, but if I don't go after him, he'd get away, you can regrow yourselves." -She picked them from her hair and put them on the floor. The twins went to the flashlight while Ladybug chased Gideon.
- "Quick, get in front and I'll regrow you." -Mabel ordered Dipper and got to the flashlight button.
- "Okay, wait! You're gonna grow us back to equal height, right?" -
- "Dipper that doesn´t matter right now!" -
- "Well, if it doesn't matter, why don't you just do it?" -
- "Aah! Why are you acting so weird? Why can't you just accept that I´m a little bit taller than you?" -
- "Oh! I'm acting weird? You're the one that keeps calling me names and stuff." -
- "Oh! What? You mean like little…" -
- "Don't say it." -
- "Little Dipper." -Gideon was behind them and picked them up, along with Soos, that was still dealing with his surroundings and put them into a glass jar, and took them with him.
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While Dipper and Mabel were arguing, Ladybug chased Gideon until she cornered him.
- "You have nowhere to run Gideon." -She smiled evilly at him and was ready to capture him with her hands. Gideon was against the wall, he just curled a little, hiding his hands, looking scared at her. When she threw herself at him to capture him, he shot his hair spray straight to her face, blinding her and causing her pain in her eyes.
- "Aaagghh! Who the hell carries hair spray all the time?!" -Ladybug yelled in pain while backing off from Gideon and trying to clean her eyes.
- "Someone in my position must look appropriate at all times." -Gideon said with arrogance and sneaked out of Ladybug's way. - "Good bye Ladybug." -He left her behind.
- "You little…" -She yelled but he ran off and didn't hear the rest.
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- "How dare say you would have defeated me? If it were at that sibling bickering!" -Gideon was angry. - "Now, tell me where Stan is?" -He kept them in the glass jar.
- "Never! You'll never find Stan… on the second door to the left down the hall." -Soos yelled back, but he realized his mistake. - "Oh wait! Why did I say that?" -
- "Stanford!... I'm coming for you!" -Gideon was sure of his victory now, put the Jar on his pocket and went to look for Stan.
Dipper, Mabel and Soos were trying to get out of the jar.
- "I guess I messed it up guys." -Soos apologized to them.
- "It's not your fault Soos. I'm the guy who put together that shrinking device. I guess it's just… you kept teasing me Mabel, like all day. What was that all about?" -Dipper asked her and she handed him his notebook.
- "I guess it's that… You're better than me at everything, and you always rub it in my face, chess, checkers, ping pong." -Mabel explained while Dipper checked the notebook. - "I guess I finally felt like winning in something for once." -She was sad.
- "Oh man! Now I feel like a big jerk." -Dipper said sadly.
- "Don't you mean, a little jerk?" -She teased him again and they laughed together.
- "Oh! All right, I walked into that one. Are we cool?" -He offered her his fist.
- "We're cool." -She accepted.
- "Am I cool?" -Soos asked them.
- "You're cool Soos." -
Gideon got in a room full of mirrors and found Stan's reflection in all of them.
- "Oh! Hi Gideon! I've been looking for someone to try out my new mirror maze. Then again, you're an idiot. That's the end of the sentence." -Stan hid somewhere in the maze.
- "Get back here!" -Gideon got into the maze.
- "Try to find me twerp HAHAHAHA!" - Stan yelled from somewhere inside the room.
- "Lucky charm!" -They heard from somewhere in the house.
Dipper and the others managed to open the jar.
- "Let's take that flashlight before Gideon gets Stan." -Dipper said and they got on top of Gideon's pocket. - "there it is!" -He saw the flashlight in the other pocket. But get there wouldn't be easy, they climbed to Gideon's neck. Mabel and Soos started to fool around, making Gideon feel like he has bugs on him and tried to slap them away, that made Soos fall down.
The twins were very close to get the flashlight, but Gideon found Stan and used the flashlight to shrink him, fortunately, it was another reflection, so the ray of light bounced between mirrors out of control until it hit something else and shrunk it.
Gideon was so pissed off by Stan's laughter that he used the flashlight to break a mirror. - "Hey! Watch the merchandise." -Stan warned him, but Gideon started to break all the mirrors without a care, fortunately, the noise led Ladybug to the room, she still had problems to see properly, but she managed to find her way, she was carrying a pillow, that's what the lucky charm gave her.
- "You little troll! These mirrors cost me $10… I mean… $20… five… five, five hundred dollars each, and you're paying for all of them." -Stan stood in front of Gideon.
- "Oh contraire! It will be you who pays!" -Gideon threatened him.
- "Grunkle Stan is doomed!" -Mabel said afraid.
- "Not completely doomed! To his armpit!" -Dipper said and pushed Mabel under Gideon's shirt, she didn't like that idea.
Gideon and Stan faced each other. - "What is that thing?" -Stan asked for the flashlight and backed off.
- "Finally, after all these years. After every humiliation, your business, your family, EVERYTHING WILL FINALLY MINE! You've no one to protect you now! Prepare for the wrath of Gideon Glee… hahahahahahaha!" -He started to laugh uncontrollably. That's when Ladybug found them.
- "That's it!" -She whispered and teared apart the pillow, she took one of the feathers and started to tickle Gideon so he laughed even more, he was unable to move.
- "I don't even know how to respond to this." -Stan said confused.
- "Allow me dear sir." -Ladybug said and started to push Gideon out of the house.
- "Look kid, I think this rivalry is getting to you, I understand, I mean, I'm a formidable foe, what can I say. Hey come on! You'll get me one of these days; maybe, you know, run your evil plan by some friends next time uh? Workshopping. But first, get your issues in order there." -Stan said to Gideon while Ladybug pushed him outside, she took the flashlight.
Gideon was out of control with his laughter. "And out the door." -Ladybug pushed him outside the house. - "MY light!" -
- "You're the light of my life too pal." -Ladybug said and slammed the door behind her. - "Whoo! Freak show." -She brushed her eyes again, they still hurt.
- "LADYBUG! DOWN HERE!" -She looked down and saw the twins and heard her earring chirp.
- "There you are guys. Here, this is yours, sorry but I gotta go before I run out of power, MIRACULOUS LADYBUG!" -She called her power and instantly, they got their normal heights. - "See you later guys." -She handed them the flashlight and left running.
- "I guess we should destroy this thing, you know, so it doesn't fall into the wrong hands again and junk." -Mabel said and Dipper took the crystal.
- "Seems like the smart thing to do." -He handed her the crystal and she smashed it and stepped on it.
- "Guys! O my God! You're ok!" -Pacifica went to them and hugged them. - "W… What happened?" -She asked them.
- "Just another crazy adventure bestie, come with me. I will tell you everything." -Mabel walked ahead and Dipper and Pacifica followed her.
- "Are you ok? Your eyes seem puffy." -Dipper asked her concerned.
- "Yeah. Sorry. After I saw how Gideon shrunk you and took you away I was very worried, I… well… I cried for a long time because I didn't know if you were ok." -She explained and brushed her eyes a little more.
- "Thank you." -Dipper said sincerely.
- "For what?" -
- "For everything. Worrying for us, calling Ladybug, you know, you helped us a lot." -He said taking her hand in his, he had a warm smile. - "Still up for that chess match?" -He asked her kindly.
- "Yeah! Of course! But I gotta warn you, I always play to win." -she said happily.
- "I don't expect less." -He said and they walked together, unaware that they were holding hands.
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After the game, that ended with Pacifica's victory, but it was a great and very challenging game, Pacifica went home, she was in her room getting ready for bed.
- "I never had the chance to play chess with some one beside my dad. That was so fun!" -Pacifica was really happy.
- "I'm glad you had fun Pacifica."-Tikki congratulated her.
- "Thank you Tikki. Hey! Would you tell me more about the other kwamis." -She asked her.
- "Sorry Paz, can't do, not until they awake. But I can tell you about last Ladybug's adventures." -
- "Really! That's great! sigh… I wish grandma would have told me about it. You know what I mean, about she being Ladybug and all that." -
- "But she told you ALMOST everything." -Tikki said.
- "Uh?" -
- "Yeah! Every 'fairy tale' she told you about Gravity Falls, was one of the adventures she had with that time's Black Cat! Every single one of them." -Tikki explained but Pacifica wasn't understanding everything. - "Yeah! I'm serious. Do you remember the tale about the mutant cow?"-She asked and Pacifica nodded. - "Well, that story was a crazy adventure we had." -
- "But all her stories were kinda different, sometimes there was a brave knight, other times a nerdy sorcerer, or a brute warrior or… or…" -Pacifica looked at Tikki but she still didn't understand.
- "She was referring to herself and Black Cat, sometimes she was the brave knight and he the nerdy sorcerer, sometimes she was the damsel in distress and he the knight in shining armor, some times the other way around. She told you most of her adventures, but she didn't tell you that she was Ladybug, she covered that." -Pacifica was now very interested.
- "That's incredible! Can you tell me more about my grandma as Ladybug, please?" -She asked her while lying on her bed.
- "Of course! I can sweetie." -Tikki said happily. - "Do you know the story when she met the one and only Cupid?" -
- "Maybe, tell me about it." -Pacifica smiled warmly at her tiny friend.
- "Well, it's a very funny story, due to the mess it caused. Back then, it was almost Valentine's Day, and your grandma was the only girl without a date, being Ladybug was getting into her personal life and…" -And there, under the sheets, at the dim light of a lamp, Pacifica and Tikki talked for many hours, about Pacifica's grandma's secret life.
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Author's note: Ok, today in most of Hispanic countries, we have a day pretty similar to Christmas eve. On January 6th, the three wise men or wise kings (those who visited Jesus Christ when he was a new born baby) come and bring gifts and toys to kids with good behavior. It's not that common for these countries, that Santa Claus comes on December 25th, he does it too, but not that often, there's where the three wise kings get into action. So, '¡FELIZ DIA DE REYES A TODOS!' (HAPPY WISE KINGS DAY TO EVERYONE!). Read you next chapter.