Author's Note: Here's another addition to Marvel Falls.
Before we get to anything, there's something I must ask for your help on. As you know, I've made a habit of making dreamcast voices for the Young Avengers series. I've done one for the Owl Sanctum and the Ghost, the Trickster, and Molly McGee, but right now, I'm stuck on a certain voice here. I've got most of it figured out, but one of the trickiest characters I've had a hard time finding a voice for is Muneeba Khan, Kamala's mother. If anyone has an idea for a voice actress for her, please let me know.
Also, I thought I should inform you that due to a recent brainstorming, I've taken the liberty of selecting the future episodes of Gravity Falls I'm going to cover. I don't want to do episodes like "The Boss Mabel" or "Bottomless Pit" since they are basically filler episodes and I can't put a Marvel spin on them, so the following episodes are the ones I'm going to cover for the season, including this one.
*Little Dipper
*Summerween
*The Deep End
*Land Before Swine
*Dreamscapers
*Gideon Rises
I may even have an original chapter or something. I don't know. I'll figure it out.
Anyway, that's about it for now. Enjoy the chapter. Any and all comments are welcome.
"Hey, Mystery Shack fam!" Kamala greeted as soon as she entered her workplace.
She walked in on Soos who was setting up bobble heads that looked like Stan. Meanwhile, near the center of the room, Dipper and Mabel was playing a game of chess with the latter clearly oblivious to the rules.
"Little guy to black space nine." Mabel said making her move.
"It's a pawn, that's not your color, and stop stealing the tiny horses." Dipper said.
"They like it better in here." Mabel said filling a bit of her sweater with all the knight pieces. "Don't you, babies?"
While Mabel was making horse noises, Dipper proceeded with his move which turned out to be the final move. "And… checkmate!"
"What?" Mabel gasped seeing her brother knock over her king piece. "Boo!"
Dipper pulled out a notepad with a tally mark table that was labeled "CHESS". Mabel had no tally marks while Dipper had over a half-hundred.
"Oh! Dipper wins again!" Dipper proclaimed triumphantly.
Kamala chuckled. "Don't worry, Mabel. My brother can't stop bragging about how smarter he is than me too."
"I guess." Mabel said looking down in a pout.
"So what else has been going on?" Kamala asked.
"Well, an hour ago, Gideon stopped by." Dipper said.
"Ugh! Him again?" Kamala asked. "He wasn't asking for me, was he?"
"No. He just tried to con Stan into signing the Mystery Shack to him." Dipper said.
"Thankfully, he was too smart to fall for it." Mabel said. "Instead of signing his name, he just wrote "Suck a lemon, little man." You should have seen the look on Gideon's face."
Kamala laughed. "Sounds like I had to be there."
"Yeah. It was a riot." Dipper agreed.
"Yo, Mabel," Soos said, "Could you pass me that brain in the jar? The lady one?"
"I got it." Dipper volunteered.
"Thanks, but Mabel's taller." Soos said.
"What?" Dipper asked. "No, she's not. We're the same height. We've always been."
"Better check again, dude." Soos said.
Kamala stared hard at the twins and squinted her eyes. "I don't know, Soos. They seem the same height to me."
"Only one way to find out." Soos said. He hopped down to the floor and had the kids stand back to back. He then pulled out a tape measure and used it to measure each twin before coming to his conclusion. "Yep. She's got exactly one millimeter on you."
"What?" Dipper asked with raised voice.
"Soos, the fact you could see that millimeter is amazing." Kamala commented. "You must rule at parties?"
"Guys, don't you see what's happening?" Mabel asked. "This millimeter is just the beginning. I'm evolving into the superior sibling. Bigger! Stronger!"
"Like some kind of alpha twin." Soos pointed out.
"Alpha twin! Alpha twin!" Mabel chanted.
"Come on, guys. Nobody even uses millimeters." Dipper said. "That only makes you taller than me in Canada."
"You know, Dipper. I've always wanted a little brother." Mabel said. "Who knew I already had one?! HAHAHAHA! YEAH!"
That's when Stan entered the shopping room in his undershirt and boxers. The sight of him made Kamala uncomfortable, but she was used to it. He entered the room after rubbing his eyes.
"I was awoken by the sound of mockery." Stan said sounding excited. "Where is it? Show me the object of ridicule."
"I'm taller than Dipper!" Mabel told him.
"By ONE millimeter." Dipper corrected upset.
"Hey, hey. Don't get… short with your sister." Stan laughed.
"Now, Grunkle Stan, I hope you don't think little of him." Mabel joked.
"Yeah! And… And, uh… He's short!"
"Dude, maybe you should lay off a tiny bit." Soos said.
"HA! 'Tiny'! Soos is in on it now!" Stan laughed along with Mabel.
While his sister and great-uncle laughed, Dipper frowned and walked on out of the room. Kamala and Soos watched him leave feeling sorry for him.
"No, I didn't mean that." Soos said.
"Yeah, guys. You should probably cut it out." Kamala said. "Dipper seemed upset about it."
"It's nothing to worry about, Kamala." Mabel said. "Dipper will forget. He's got a—three, two, one…"
"Short-term memory!" both she and Stan finished together followed by a laugh.
Kamala rolled her eyes. "Whatever. If you need me, I got a paycheck to earn."
Just then, the bell rang indicating the door was opening. Kamala turned and smiled when she saw Dante walk on in and look around the place.
"Oh. Hey, Dante." Kamala greeted quickly walking up to him. "So, uh, what brings you by?"
"Well, my friends were just telling me about the weird stuff going on in this shack. And I figured, 'Man, I can't believe I've never been here before'. Well, other than the party, that is."
"Hey, kid, if you want a tour, it's fifteen bucks." Stan said.
"Whoa!" Dante said looking at Stan's appearance. "Uh… I can pay, sir."
"Good customer." Stan said. "Show him around, Kamala."
"Aye, aye, Mr. Pines." Kamala said saluting his boss as he walked away.
Dante stared in shock. "Does he know he's in his boxers?"
"Half of the time, he is." Kamala answered.
Deep in his basement prison cell, Maximus whistled while writing in a blank book. With the dim light he was given, he was still able to write until the door opened above him. Gideon walked right in muttering to himself while carrying a tray of gruel and a glass of water. As soon as he arrived, he kicked the tray into Maximus' cell.
"Lunchtime." Gideon said sternly.
"Why so glum?" Maximus asked taking his tray. He carried it over to his bed and sat it onto his lap as he sat. "Don't tell me your little scam failed to get you the Mystery Shack."
"Cursed Stanford Pines is smarter than he let on." Gideon growled before noticing the book in the cell. "What are you writing?"
"Just my memoirs." Maximus said. "It's the only thing keeping me sane while I'm your prisoner."
"Sane?" Gideon asked pulling his journal out of his bright-blue jacket. "Wake up, you peon. The journal describes you as Maximus the Mad?"
"That's nothing more than a derogatory name given to me by the man who wrote that book." Maximus said. "Also, call me a peon again… AND I'LL HAVE YOU STUFFED AS SOON AS I'M OUT OF HERE!"
Gideon chuckled. "You're funny, thinking you have any position over me. The only reason you still live is because you might have information for me. I mean, you did kindly tell me where I can find this here journal."
"Some gratitude you showed." Maximus said dryly. "The first thing you did with that book was knock me out while my back was turned. Next thing I know, I woke up here being fed three square meals of gruel a day."
"Oh, it must be so sad to be you right now." Gideon said coldly. "Meanwhile, I'm not getting anything that I deserve. I hold sway on only a town full of mouth-breathers, my beloved Kamala refuses to reciprocate my feelings, and those stinking Terrigen crystals you helped me find didn't do squat for me!"
"That's because you're not an Inhuman." Maximus said. "You don't have powerful genes, so you resort to crutches such as magical relics or a powerful girl who you delude to be your true love."
"Shut up!" Gideon snapped. "I'll earn her love and take over the Mystery Shack, even if I have to do so by force!"
Maximus shrugged. "If it helps you sleep at night. Have a good day of failure."
Gideon huffed and started to head on back upstairs. He was only halfway up when he stopped.
"You know," Gideon said turning back at Maximus, "There is one thing I have to know. Why me? You walked up to me, promised me ultimate power, and lead me to the journal. And it was so easy to get, you could've gotten it yourself. So why did you need me?"
Maximus cocky grin dropped as he sighed. "Let's just say the decision to aide you wasn't up to me."
"And so concludes the Mystery Tour." Kamala said returning to the gift shop with Dante. "What did you think?"
"I think I'm going to need therapy to forget the Sascrotch." Dante said.
"Tell me about it." Kamala agreed. "Still, I'd take over Stan's boxers." She laughed along with Dante.
"Hey, dudes." Soos greeted from the counter with Mabel sitting beside him. "How'd the tour go?"
"All in all, not bad." Dante said. "Certainly good service."
Kamala chuckled while blushing. "Me? No. Stop." She coughed a bit before turning the attention over at Mabel. "What about you, Mabel? What have you been up to in the past twenty minutes we've been gone?"
"Not much." Mabel said. "But I've been thinking about buying big clothes. I'll grow into them."
That's when Dipper entered through the entrance door with a smile on his face. "Hey, guys. Notice anything different about me?"
Soos leaned in to squint before realizing. "Holy hot sauce! You've grown an extra millimeter!"
"What?" Mabel gasped. She stood next to Dipper while Soos measured them with a ruler. He was right. They were the exact same height again.
"Seriously, Soos." Kamala chuckled in amazement. "The next time I come across a game where I have to guess how many jelly beans are in a jar, I'm totally taking you with me. So what happened, Dipper?"
"What can I say?" Dipper shrugged. "Growth spurt."
"Meh. Mine happened first." Mabel said. "I'm gonna be taller in the end. It's science, Dipper."
"What?" Dipper asked loudly. "But we're the same height now."
"Alpha twin! Alpha twin!"
Dipper glared menacingly. "Oh, yeah? Something tells me I've got another growth spurt coming on right now." Without another word, he headed out the room and headed upstairs. Suspicious, Mabel followed him.
"What's their deal?" Dante asked.
"Mabel's gotten a bit cocky since she was discovered she was a tiny bit taller than Dipper." Kamala explained.
"Should we intervene?" Dante asked.
"Not unless they get into physical harm." Kamala said.
Just then, both of them heard a jittering sound coming from the side. In the open window, a familiar squirrel sat in the frame.
"Tippy-Toe?" Kamala asked recognizing the squirrel. "What's up?"
Tippy-Toe jittered again waving his arms outside. He then jumped out leaving Kamala and Dante to follow him.
Once they reached outside, Kamala and Dante came face to face with Doreen who had Tippy-Toe perched on her shoulder like a pirate's parrot.
"Doreen, what's up?" Kamala asked.
"We may have a situation." Doreen said. "I sent Tippy-Toe over to call you over."
"Why did you have to send your squirrel to get us when you were just five feet from the window?" Dante asked.
Doreen stood silently blinking both her eyes. "I… That's not important. What's important is, something happened in the forest."
"What?" Kamala asked.
"Well, I've got over a hundred squirrel contacts around the forest keeping an eye on the strange stuff in there." Doreen explained. "One of them, a buddy named Hazelnose, told me that a mystic crystal is missing."
"Mystic crystal?" Kamala asked.
"Yeah. Any light shining from them can do one of two things." Doreen continued. "One light can shrink anything it shines on while the other grows it. And one of those crystals is missing. I think somebody dug it up."
"That's weird." Kamala said. "Who would need…" She stopped as soon as she realized. Dante saw her expression and figured out what she was thinking.
"Hold up." Dante said. "You think that Dipper might've…"
Before he could finish, the front door slammed open and both the Pines twins jump over each other outside. Dipper dropped a red flashlight with a crystal tied to its lenses. As it fell, it shined a blue light that instantly grew a passing caterpillar to massive size. It crawled into the forest while crushing a few cars on the way.
"Yep. I think he did." Kamala sighed.
What then occurred was a fight between Dipper and Mabel over the flashlight. They used it on each other, and after returning their body parts to normal size afterwards, they pulled hard trying to take the flashlight back.
"Hey, kids, cut it out!" Kamala yelled. "Dipper, I know you've been using a magic crystal to make yourself taller."
"I only did it to shut Mabel up about the height!" Dipper shouted.
"Leave it to Little Dipper to use magic to try and outgrow his alpha twin." Mabel taunted.
"Don't call me Little Dipper, and you're not the alpha twin!"
"Alpha twin! Alpha… WHOA!"
Mabel slipped and yanked the flashlight out of Dipper's hands. It flew into the air until it wound up in the hands of the worst person to find it.
Lil Gideon had failed in another attempt to take the deed to the Mystery Shack. He threatened to release cursed termites unless Stan gave him the deed, but the tables were turned on him and Gideon was sent away in a huff. That's when the flashlight fell to his feet and he picked it up to examine it.
"My, my. What delightful manner of doo-hickery is this?"
Mabel tried to whisper to the others. "Maybe he didn't see us use it and doesn't know it's a magic flashlight that can grow and shrink things." Unfortunately, for her, Gideon was standing right next to her and he heard it all.
"Really?" Dipper asked annoyed.
"Click. Boop." Gideon giggled fiddling with the lights. He then gave an evil grin to the heroes.
"Gideon, whatever your thinking…" Kamala tried to say, but she was too late.
Gideon fired a purple light at the five of them and they all shrank down nearly in an instant. They suddenly found themselves to be no bigger than a blade of grass while Gideon towered over them in his normal height. To them, he let out a monstrous laugh even though it was really just a giggle.
"Well, this is a problem." Doreen said worryingly as Gideon scooped them all up in an empty jar.
After returning home, Gideon went straight to his room and poured Dipper, Mabel, Kamala, Doreen, and Dante onto his desk. Once they landed, they looked up at Gideon glaring angrily at them.
"What's going on?" Dante asked.
"Yeah, why is Li'l Gideon doing this to us?" Doreen asked.
"Because he's a creep, that's why." Kamala said. "The munchkin is obsessed with me almost as much as he's obsessed with power."
"Now, don't be like that, Kamala." Gideon said stroking her hair. "Just agree to be my queen and I'll return you to normal size."
"We live in a democracy, and never!" Kamala responded pushing Gideon's finger off of her head. "And in case you've forgotten, I don't need you to return me to normal size."
"You don't?" Dante asked.
Kamala's eyes widened. "Oh, yeah. I forgot you didn't know." She sighed. "Oh, well. Better now than never to let you know."
"Know what?" Dante asked.
"This!" Kamala said before posing heroically. "EMBIGGEN!"
…
…
Everyone watched and stared at Kamala, but nothing was happening. She strained herself trying to push to a taller height, but nothing she tried was working.
"Uh, what's going on?" Kamala asked. "How come I'm not embiggening?"
Dipper gasped. "The crystal. It must have shrunk your powers just like your size."
"What?!" Kamala gasped.
"Now that you mention it," Doreen said feeling her bicep, "I have been feeling weaker since we shrunk."
Gideon laughed. "Looks like luck's on my side today. Now then…" He grabbed the head of his desk lamp and shined it roughly on the others. "Tell me. How exactly did you come upon this magic item, hmm? Did somebody tell you about it? Did you read about it somewhere?"
Dipper's eyes shifted into his jacket where he hid his journal. He made sure he kept it safe and secure before answering, "Lean closer and I'll tell you."
Gideon smiled and held his ear to him. "Well, don't mind if I…"
HOOOOONK!
Gideon shrieked as Dipper pressed the top of an airhorn that was right next to him and it made a loud noise into the former's ear. As he moved away and blushed in embarrassment, Kamala couldn't help but laugh.
"Yeah! That's what you deserve, ankle-biter!"
Gideon yelled as he raised his fist. He was about to crush his prisoners when he calmed himself down. "Steel yourself, Gideon. You can use them. You can use them."
Gideon headed to his phone and dialed in a number. He held it into his ear until Stan's voice was heard from it.
"Hello?"
"Stanford Pines. Listen to me very closely. I have your niece, nephew, employee, and a couple of other strangers who I couldn't care less about. Hand over the deed to the Mystery Shack right now or great harm will befall them! …This is Gideon, by the way."
Stan laughed loudly. "Oh, yeah. This has gotta be your worst plot yet. They're fine. I saw them playing in the yard minutes ago."
"I have them in my possession!" Gideon yelled angrily. "You don't believe me? I will text you a photo!"
"'Text' me a 'photo'?" Stan asked. "Now, you're not even speaking English."
"But…" Gideon was suddenly cut off when Stan hung up on him. "Hello? Hello!"
Gideon was so enraged, he threw his phone across the room. When it hit the wall, it fell to pieces. Some of them landed on the table where the others dodged to avoid them.
"You gotta do better than that, Gideon." Kamala said. "Stan's so old-fashioned, he wouldn't know you were telling the truth if you blasted it at his face."
Gideon suddenly opened his eyes. "Blasted…" He then laughed maniacally. "Of course! What am I doing? I don't need random! I have this!" He pulled out his flashlight with the size-altering crystal. "I'll shrink Stan and take the shack for myself! Y'all will be helpless to stop me, especially without your powers. And if any of you step out of line…" He picked up a handful of figures that look like Stan, Kamala, Dipper, and Mabel before tearing their heads off.
"You… make a good point." Dante said petrified. "But I still don't get it. Why are you doing this? You're the most beloved citizen of Gravity Falls."
"You think that's enough for me, having an entire hick town in the palm of my hand?" Gideon asked. "No. I know I am meant for more. I deserve more. And I'm going to get it, no matter who I have to crush on my way."
"Gideon! The ice cream truck is here!" cried out Gideon's father, Bud.
"Oh! Coming!" Gideon cheered happily as he headed downstairs with the flashlight in his pocket.
"Sheesh. What a brat." Doreen commented.
"Um, Kamala," Dante said, "What's all this about powers and stuff?"
Kamala looked at Dante and sighed. "Well… The thing is… I mean, we've already been through a bit of stuff together, so maybe…" She turned over to Doreen. "Should I?"
"Might as well." Doreen shrugged.
"All right." Kamala said. "You know that superhero, Ms. Marvel?"
"Yeah, that girl who…" Dante said before falling silent. He looked at Kamala with big eyes. "Hold up. You're…"
Kamala nodded.
"HOLY COW!" Dante exclaimed. "That's… Wow! But don't you have powers or something?"
"Normally, I would, but as Dipper explained, I can't do anything while I'm… Ka-small-a."
"Ka-small-a?" Mabel asked.
"I don't know. It sounded better in my head. The point is, we gotta get out of here and save Stan."
"How?" Dipper asked. "There's only five of us, and we're all two inches tall."
The five of them thought hard until a chittering sound caught their attention. When they turned to an open window, their eyes brightened seeing Tippy-Toe on the windowsill.
"Tippy-Toe!" Doreen cheered as her squirrel crawled over to meet them at the table. "How'd you find us?"
Tippy-Toe chattered with Doreen nodding.
"Ah. I see."
"What'd he say?" Kamala asked.
"He said that he saw Gideon shrink us and follow him here." Doreen said. "Good to know my squirrel-ese hasn't shrunk."
"Can we ride him over to stop Gideon?" Dipper asked.
"Yeah. I've always wanted to ride on the top of a squirrel anyway." Doreen said climbing up on his back while the others did the same.
"Tippy-Toe, to freedom!" Mabel declared.
With the kids on his back, Tippy-Toe jumped down to Gideon's carpet and scurried out the door which was left slightly open. They then headed down the stairs only to find Gideon already leaving out the front door after finishing his ice cream.
They followed him outside, but on the way, Kamala looked aside and saw the door to the basement with a sign that read "Gideon secrets only! Do not enter!" Kamala couldn't help but look curiously at it before they ran out of the house.
Gideon sat at the bus stop bench with Lazy Susan sitting next to him.
"What cute little thing are you off to, you cute little cutey face?" Lazy Susan asked him.
"I'm gonna annihilate my archenemy's entire family." Gideon replied nonchalantly.
"Oh. Okay." Lazy Susan said without giving what she heard much thought.
The bus arrived to pick Gideon up, but right before it continued its drive to the Mystery Shack, Tippy-Toe hopped onto the back hinge of the bus with the kids on his back.
"Now what?" Dante asked.
"Well, there's nothing to do until the bus stopped at the Mystery Shack." Dipper said. "We'll have to ride this out until we get there."
The bus stopped a short distance from the Mystery Shack. Gideon got off and excitedly stepped up to its front porch. That's when Tippy-Toe jumped off the bus and scurried its way over to intercept him. The kids jumped off as soon as Tippy-Toe reached the porch right where Gideon was.
"I'm coming for you, Stanford… HEY!"
Gideon was interrupted by Tippy-Toe, who grabbed onto his bright-blue pants and climbed up his body. He ran around his body making him yell out in panic and drop the flashlight.
"AAH! WHAT THE… GET OFF OF ME, YOU FURRY RAT!"
"RAT?!" Doreen yelled out. "Oh, that privileged little…"
"You can kick his butt when you're butt-kicking size again." Kamala said pushing the flashlight back toward the group. "Let's get back to normal before Gideon catches on."
"On it." Mabel said hopping on top of the flashlight where the switch is. "Dipper, get in front and I'll re-grow you."
"Okay." Dipper said before stopping himself. "Wait, you're gonna grow us back to equal height, right?"
"Dipper, that doesn't matter right now." Mabel said.
"Well, if it doesn't matter, then why don't you just do it?" Dipper asked.
"Guys, this is not the time." Dante said.
"Dipper, just let Mabel grow you." Doreen said.
"Not until she promises to grow us to equal height!" Dipper retorted.
Mabel groaned. "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?" Dipper asked angrily. "You're the one who keeps calling me names and stuff!"
"Oh, what? You mean like Little…"
"Don't say it!"
"Little Dipper."
That didn't come from Mabel's mouth. Everyone gasped as they looked up and saw Gideon towering over them and stuffing Tippy-Toe into his jar. He then grabbed the kids up with his free hand.
"I dare say you would've defeated me if it wasn't for your sibling bickering."
Without another word said, Gideon kicked down the door and looked around and caught sight of Stan's iconic fez. Acting on instinct, he fired the purple light from his flashlight shrinking the person who wore it until the fez dropped on the ground covering them.
"NO!" the heroes yelled.
After finishing his shrinking plan, Gideon turned off his flashlight and put it in his jacket. "Well, well, Standford, it appears I've finally gotten the best of…" He picked up the fez to reveal the person underneath, but much to his surprise, it turned out it wasn't Stan he shrunk. It was Soos. "What?!"
"All right. Something's definitely different here." Soos said looking around.
Upset, Gideon grabbed Soos and dropped him and the others into the jar along with Tippy-Toe. He then shook them around to rattle them up.
"Tell me where Stan is!" Gideon demanded.
"Never!" Soos refused. "You'll never find Stan on the second door to the left down the hall. Oh, wait. Why did I say that?"
Eager to finish things, Gideon stuffed the jar into his pocket and readied the flashlight in his hand. "Stanford, I'm coming for you!"
While Gideon was heading down the hall, the kids and Soos tried to bust their way free, but it was no use.
"Guess I kinda 'Soosed' that one up, didn't I?" Soos asked regretting his mouth.
"It's all right, Soos." Kamala said. "It's not your fault."
"She's right." Dipper sighed. "I'm the guy who put together that shrinking device."
"No kidding." Doreen said. "No offense to you, Dipper, but why would you keep trying on using magic for your personal problems? That always tends to backfire on you."
"I don't know." Dipper said sadly. "It's just that… You kept teasing me, Mabel. Like, all day. You've been acting like a single millimeter is the most important thing in the world and that I'm inferior to you. What was all that about?"
Mabel frowned before handing Dipper his tally mark notepad which show hall his wins over her. "I guess it's that, you're better at me at, like, everything. And you always rub it in my face. Chess. Checkers. Ping pong. I guess I finally felt like I was winning at something for once."
After going through his notebook, Dipper realized that his sister was right. "Oh, man. Now, I feel like a big jerk."
"Don't you mean a 'little' jerk?" Mabel laughed at that along with Dipper.
"All right. I walked into that one." Dipper said. "Are we cool?"
"We're cool." Mabel said.
"Am I cool?" Soos asked.
"You're cool, Soos."
"Yes!" Soos exclaimed proudly. "And Kamala and guys, you're cool too."
"Yeah, everyone's cool." Kamala smiled.
"Well, now that that's all settled," Dante said, "What are we going to do about Gideon? If he hits Mr. Pines with that shrink ray, it's all over."
Gideon continued to walk down the hallway until he found a room that was full of mirrors covering most of the surfaces. He noticed that Stan's reflection could be seen on a lot of them.
"Stanford!"
"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."
At that, Stan's reflection disappeared and he ran around the mirror maze. Gideon growled and ran in to find him.
"You come back here!" Gideon yelled out.
"Try and find me, twerp!" Stan's voice echoed through the maze.
Inside the jar, everyone stood on each other's shoulders to reach the top of the jar. Mabel was on top pushing the lid up with all her might. Finally, she managed to pop it off and free them.
"Let's get that flashlight before Gideon gets Stan." Dipper said.
Doreen gave a wicked grin and shared it with Tippy-Toe. "Oh, I think we can manage something. Ready for payback, Tippy-Toe?" The squirrel nodded.
Gideon traversed across the maze shifting his eyes left and right. At first, all he could find are reflections of himself. But then, as soon as he saw Stan's face, he quickly went into action and fired his shrink ray at it. However, it bounced off the surface of a mirror where Stan's reflection was and it continued to bounce around from mirror to mirror. Gideon ducked down to avoid getting hit.
Finally, the shrink ray hit something other than a mirror. It landed on a moose head mounted on the wall and it disappeared from eyesight. When Gideon stood back up, he was angered by Stan's laughter taunting him. He furiously threw his flashlight at a mirror shattering it to pieces.
"Hey! Watch the merchandise!" Stan yelled.
Gideon picked up the flashlight from the ground and got an idea. Using the blunt end of the flashlight, he struck at every mirror he could find shattering them to pieces. As soon as he broke seven mirrors, Stan stepped out of hiding to confront Gideon face to face.
"You little troll! These mirrors cost me 10… I mean 25… Five hun… Five-hundred dollars each! And you're paying for all of them!"
"Au contraire," Gideon replied pointing his flashlight ready to fire, "It will be you who pays!"
"Whoa. What is that thing?" Stan asked. He started stepping backwards as soon as the crystal at the flashlight lenses began to glow purple. He stopped with his back against the wall.
"Finally, after all these years, after every humiliation! Your business, your family, everything will finally be mine!"
"Years?" Stan asked. "I've only known you since the beginning of summer."
"Don't undermine my monologue, Stanford Pines!" Gideon yelled back. "You have no one to protect you now! Prepare to suffer the wrath of Gideon Glee…"
Gideon was cut short by Tippy-Toe who jumped up in front of his face frightening him. He fell on his back dropping the flashlight while Tippy-Toe jumped into his shiny hair. He shrieked in fear as he tried to reach in and grab him. He was unable to catch him this time. While he fought against Tippy-Toe, Stan just stared in confusion.
"Uh, go, bucky." Stan said.
Meanwhile, the others made it to the flashlight and rolled it away. This time, they made sure Gideon couldn't take it back again.
Gideon finally got back up, but he was still struggling with trying to get Gideon out of his hair. During the struggle, he ran around the room until he ended up outside at night. Finally, Tippy-Toe jumped out of his locks. Gideon then realized that not only was the squirrel gone, but his flashlight too. He looked around his pockets, but he couldn't find it, nor his prisoners.
"MY LIGHT!" Gideon reached out to the door where Stan was standing.
"You're the light of my life too, pal." Stan said closing the door behind him. "Yeesh. That kid it not having a good day."
After Stan left, the kids headed to the flashlight and used it on each other. Mabel was the last one after Dipper grew her back to normal.
"So everything's back to normal?" Doreen asked.
"Only one way to find out." Kamala said. "Soos, what do your powers of observation say about Dipper and Mabel's height?"
Soos looked and smiled. "Hey. Mabel's back to being one millimeter higher than Dipper."
"Really?" Mabel asked looking at Dipper. "You let me keep my extra millimeter?"
"You earned it." Dipper said.
"Just remember not to let something as silly as a height difference mess with you guys, okay?" Kamala asked.
"For sure." Mabel said. "And to prove it…" She removed the crystal from the flashlight and smashed it onto the floor. She then ground her foot into the shards to break it even more. "DIE! DIE!"
"Whoa. Remind me not to get on her bad side." Dante said.
"Sure thing." Kamala said. "And Dante, about me being Ms. Marvel…"
"Don't worry about it." Dante said. "I get it. And let me guess, you were inspired by Captain Marvel, huh?"
Kamala smiled. "You know Captain Marvel?"
"Well, I've only seen the movie." Dante said. "Not the best superhero movie, I admit, but it's certainly memorable. And hey, I like sci-fi."
"Wow." Kamala said with a blush. "That's… That's really cool."
Just outside the window, Gideon glared inside and growled angrily at the sight of Kamala blushing over Dante. He then left the shack and returned home in a fit of rage.
"Cursed Pines Family! Cursed beautiful Kamala! And cursed pretty boy who thinks he can take her away from me!" Gideon ranted as he paced around the living room in front of his parents.
"Oh, son, don't you mind all that." Bud said. "You'll get your revenge one of these days."
"NO!" Gideon yelled flipping a table over. "It's not just about revenge! I want that shack; the physical building!"
"But why?" Bud asked.
"Because it holds a secret you can't possibly imagine!" Gideon laughed.
"Uh, sweetie," Bud said offering a spoonful of ice cream, "You want some ice cream?"
"Did you pick out all the nuts?" Gideon asked.
"Mm-hmm." Bud nodded before feeding his vengeful son.
Meanwhile, down at the basement, Maximus laid on his bed groaning at the sound of Gideon's laughter. He held his book in his hands.
"Such a brat." Maximus commented as he kept on writing. "He'll get what's coming to him."