A/N: I LIVE! I'm back with a new chapter everyone! Sorry for the long absence. I was having trouble getting my thoughts together. However, thanks to Darklord331's massive help, I finally got my spark back to make a new chapter. I hope you all enjoy.
Maggie stood still, her eyes wide in shock at the sight of Zim standing a few feet in front of her. She wanted to run when he started to approach her, but only managed to fall on her butt when her legs refused to listen. She couldn't even find her voice when she felt his small frame start to crawl up her body until they were face-to-face. His ruby eyes stared into her terrified eyes...and he smiled. A smile that exuded warmth and care. A smile that, for once, didn't scare the poor woman. The two just stared at each other before Zim's smile took on a more alluring tone. Maggie's breath hitched when Zim gently placed hands on her breasts, making her blush. She was scared, yet she didn't shove him away. She just laid there as this tiny alien, with even tinier hands, fondle her tits before giving both of them a squeeze-
Honk Honk!
Maggie woke with a jolt after hearing her breasts honk like a clown's nose. She took a second to remember that she had fallen asleep under a tree before hearing the clown nose honk again. She quickly reached into her pocket and pulled out her phone before answering.
"Hello?" she said in a groggy tone.
"Hi, Maggie." came Luan's tired voice.
"Luan? What's up? And why do you sound so tired?" Maggie asked.
"I'm still beat from that Meet and Greet Donovan set up. You wouldn't think shaking hands and taking photos with people for only two hours would be so tiring." Luan explained. "I called because nobody's seen you in a while. I'm about to head to that mansion to talk to Gaz and her friends before they read the will. Where are you?"
"Oh. I fell asleep under a tree. Guess I was tired." Maggie said as she scratched her head before feeling something slimy on her hand. "What the-?! Eww!"
"What's wrong?"
"I got tree sap in my hair!" Maggie groaned, making Luan chuckle. "Don't laugh! It's disgusting."
"Actually, it's delicious."
Maggie turned to see, to her shock, an eight headed, multi-limbed bear standing before her.
"Uh...?" Maggie got out as she stared at the creature before her.
"New to Gravity Falls?" the bear asked before one of the heads opened it's mouth, allowing an arm to pull out an ID to show Maggie. "I am the Multi-Bear, a resident of Gravity Falls." he introduced. Maggie simply stared before she turned and bolted.
"WHAT HAS MY LIFE BECOME?!" she screamed as she ran, leaving the Multi-Bear alone.
"Was it something I said?" he asked before shrugging and started to feed on the tree sap.
Snap!
The Multi-Bear stopped eating and perked up at the sound of a twig snapping behind him caught his attention. He turned to see what made it, only to be blinded by a flash of light.
Lee, Nate and Thompson were sitting on some bleachers inside the recently built Gravity Falls Youth Sports Center.
"Whoa." Lee whispered.
"This...is awesome." Nate said with a grin.
"Uh...I think I'm getting hot flashes." Thompson muttered, his face red and sweating.
"The only thing that's hot around here are those two." Nate said.
The two in question were Lynn and Lucy, both dressed in shorts and tops that were red and black respectively, playing a one-on-one game of basketball on the court.
"So that's what a top athlete looks like." Lee said as his eyes poured over Lynn's toned frame and exposed abs.
"I bet her skin shines in the moonlight." Nate wondered as he gazed at Lucy's pale skin that was glossy from sweat.
"I...really feel like eating gelatin." Thompson got out as he watched the two women run around the court, their tits and asses bouncing around with each step.
"Me too." said Nate.
"Me three." Lee added.
"Uh, so, uh...Why aren't we at the reading of McGucket's will?" Thompson asked after chugging his water bottle dry.
"Because we all know that none of us are in his will." Lee answered.
"You never know. He could've left something for-"
"If a kid painted 'McSuckit' on your home, would you leave them anything?" Nate asked.
"That was you two!" Thompson accused before sighing. "Oh you're right. Besides, I didn't know him that well anyway."
"Exactly. Now shut up and watch." Lee shushed his friend.
"Hey."
All three men looked up to see Lynn looking at them as she knocked her ponytail out of her face. "What'cha lookin' at?" she asked while Lucy drank some water.
"N-Nothing!" all three of them yelped.
"Oh? So we're nothing to you?" Lucy asked after handing Lynn the water bottle to drink. "That hurts." That got all three of them to sputter out excuses and denials as they tried to talk to them, making the two women giggle as they returned to the court.
"It's fun watching those kind of guys fall over themselves." Lynn said as she twirled the basketball on one finger. "How long do you think before they try to ask any of us out?"
"Probably the same time they can form proper words around us." Lucy answered.
"So...never?" Lynn asked, making them both chuckle before Lynn stopped the ball. "So...those unicorns you met. How was it?"
"It was so amazing. The one non-bleak dream I've ever had came true." Lucy answered, a tear rolling down from under her bangs. She wiped it away before turning back to Lynn. "Why'd you ask? I thought you thought unicorns were too girly for you."
"They are, but I did want to see one when I, like, two years old." Lynn admitted. "Anyway, back to the game!" she said before she started to dribble the ball between her hands. "Where am I going? This way? That way?! Ohh, where am I going?!" she taunted before Lucy swatted the ball away. She then warped to where the ball was flying before she caught it and dribbled it herself before throwing it towards the hoop, then warped to catch it before dunking it.
"Where are you going? You're going down." Lucy answered with a smile after landing on her feet.
"Uh-uh! Foul!" Lynn yelled. "You warped! That's cheating! You're not allowed to use your power!"
"You did not just say that." Lucy growled, her smile falling as the two approached each other. "You don't get to cry foul after you used your ability to dunk."
"My dunk was perfectly normal!" Lynn protested. "I didn't use my abilities!"
"Then explain how you made that jump from all the way on the other side of the court. Normal people can't do that. Not even you could before joining up with Zim." Lucy explained.
"You know what?! Why don't we let those three who've had their eyes glued to us decide who's right and wrong?!" Lynn decided.
"...What guys?" Lucy asked. Lynn looked at the bleachers to see that Lee, Nate and Thompson were no longer there.
"Where'd they go?" Lynn asked before a light enveloped her vision.
Mandy was bored as she sat in the Manotaur's Man Cave, the inhabitants pampering her and Mindy.
"How long do we have to do this?" Beardy asked.
"Until Leaderaur can get strong enough to defeat her in battle. Then we'll make the both of them work under us." Pubetor answered.
"I can hear you, you know?" Mandy said, making the two jump in fear. "You want to be back in the maid outfits?" Mandy threatened while Mindy wiggled her fingers, a magic sparkle coming from them.
"No! Please! Not the outfits!" Beardy begged.
"Then shut up and get me a refill." Mandy ordered as she handed him an empty glass.
"I'm gonna get some fresh air." Mindy decided before clapping her hands. "Servants!" she called, making Pituitaur and Testosteraur run by with a sedan chair. She sat in it before pointing at the entrance to the man cave before relaxing. "I could get used to this." she said as the two Manotaur chairmen walked grumbled and walked out with her. Shortly after she left, Leaderaur appeared from deeper inside the Man Cave.
"I have finished my training and have come to reclaim my honor! Face me, Mandy!" he challenged.
"You've hit the gym for only an hour and you think you can take me?" Mandy asked in a dull tone. Leaderaur's answer was to flex his muscles to the max, veins sticking up all over the underside of his skin.
"I SHALL RECLAIM IT ALL!" he declared.
-2 minutes later-
"YEAAAARGGHH! UNCLE! UNCLE!" Leaderaur screamed as Mandy held one of his massive arms behind his back with one hand, a bored look on her face.
"This is just sad." Mandy drawled as she released Leaderaur's arm.
"HEY, MANOTAURS!"
Everyone looked towards the entrance to see a shadowed figure yelling in.
"YOU GUYS ARE NOTHING BUT PILES OF THIRD RATE, SLAUGHTERHOUSE REJECT BEEF!"
"WHAT?!" the Manotaurs all yelled before roaring as they charged out of the Man Cave, with Leaderaur leading them all. Mandy stood there with her usual frown before nodding.
"Don't know who they are, but they know their insults." she complimented before walking towards the entrance. "Let's see who's talking trash." she said to herself. She walked outside before raising a brow in confusion. "Where'd all those Manotaurs go?" she asked when she noticed that the area was empty. She narrowed her eyes a second later when she saw the Sedan chair that Mindy was riding was there, but no Mindy. She clenched her knuckles and straightened up when she felt a presence behind her. She wheeled around on her feet, fist raised to strike...and froze.
The graveyard of Gravity Falls was quiet, as if to grant peace to those who had passed. Well kept gravestones of different shapes and sizes dotted the area, each one engraved with the names and ages of the deceased.
It was hear that Susie could find true peace to clear her mind of negative thoughts and distractions from the world.
"Oh Susie~"
Peace and quiet to clear her mind-
"Ooooh Susie~"
Peace and quiet-
"Will you PLEEEEASE go out with MEEEEEE?~"
Susie groaned as she did her best to ignore the sounds of Robbie Valentino caterwauling as he followed her around the graveyard, his fingers strumming away on a guitar.
"If there's one thing worse than a bad musician, it's a bad musician that sings specifically horrible lyrics." she muttered to herself.
"OOOOOH SUUUUSSII-"
"SHUT UP!"
Susie blinked at the sudden voice before she turned to see Robbie being pelted with pine cones, courtesy of a pack of gnomes that were atop a nearby tree.
"This is a place for the dead to rest! Stop playing that overgrown fiddle and keep it down!" one of the gnomes yelled.
"Fiddle?! This is a guitar!" Robbie yelled before a pine cone was thrown right into his mouth.
"Well whatever it is, stop making all that noise with it! Go take your date somewhere else!" the same gnome demanded.
"I'm not with him. He just keeps following me around." Susie clarified.
"Well please lead him somewhere else, okay?" the gnome asked.
"That's what the people from the last place I was visiting asked." Susie sighed before she walked away, with Robbie catching up and walking beside her.
"Sho-" he started before spitting the pinecone out of his mouth. "Bleh! So, what'd you think of my music? Something else, right?"
"Oh yes. It was certainly...something." Susie answered with a bored look.
"I know. I'm great. Been writing songs for years. So many awesome hits that I can't even remember them all. They'd all be on albums, but I can't seem to find a record company that's as awesome as I am to publish them." Robbie boasted.
"Shocking." Susie answered.
"Psssst! Robert!" came a loud whisper. Both of them looked to see Robbie's parents watching them from behind a tombstone.
"Oh no." Robbie groaned.
"Robbie! Did she like the song?" his mother asked.
"Ask her over for dinner! We can all look at Casket's Monthly!" his father added.
"Would you two go away?!" Robbie got out through grit teeth while wildly waving his hand to the side, hoping they would leave.
"Aw, he's waving at us." his mother said before the two of them waved at him, making him groan and slap his hands to his face.
"This is so embarrassing!" he huffed before he yelped when he fell into an open grave. "That's it! Someone just bury me here!" he wailed in defeat.
"Too bad I don't have a shovel." Susie giggled as she stood over the grave and looked down at him.
"But I do."
CLANG!
Robbie looked up just in time to see Susie fall into the grave next to him, out cold. He looked to see someone standing over the grave as they tossed the shovel aside before reaching into their pocket and shining a light in his eyes.
Maggie was back inside the shower inside the Mystery Shack. She was hesitant to be there but felt it was safe when Zim volunteered to be strapped to the bed, despite already being stuck due to his casts. She had long since washed the sap from her hair, but was now simply standing in the shower, letting the warm water run over her body for quite some time.
Ever since she met Zim, her life had turned upside-down. And if it wasn't him being nearby that was scaring her, he was terrifying her in her own dreams.
Dreams...
Maggie gently cupped her breasts as she remembered her last dream with Zim. His hands were so gentle as he massaged them, his smile showing so much kindness. She sighed as she let her hands drop down to her sides.
"Just stop it, Maggie. You're going to forget him anyway." she said to herself as she washed any lingering soap off before shutting the water off. She stepped out and wrapped a towel around her hair before drying off with a second towel. She finished and wrapped the towel around herself before she wiped the fogged up mirror off to look at herself. She looked at her tired face before spotting a figure in the mirror.
Bad news? It wasn't Lisa.
Worse news? It wasn't anyone she recognized.
"Peek-a-boo." they said, making her quickly turn around as they aimed something at her. She screamed before seeing a light.
The McGucket Hootenanny Hutt was bustling with people from the town, all of them dressed up and enjoying themselves as they ate refreshments and talked with each other. The appearance of the women that came with Gaz gave them a moment of pause before Mabel declared that they were friends and were with her. Now they were either talking with them or just ignoring them.
"Now this is a mansion worth living in." Lum said to herself as she sipped on her drink.
"Indeed. It is a shame that it is not on the market." Wednesday said as she munched on some food. "A mansion this size could easily house many of us with room to spare."
"Yeah, but I bet Zim could have mansion built that's twice as big and 10 times as nice." Fink said as she picked up some hors d'oeuvres before grimacing at a cheese plate. "With what he's trying to do, he needs all the space he can get."
"True. And let us not forget his promise to a few of us. Myself, included." Wednesday agreed as she remembered Zim promising her her own laboratory."
"And that garage for us to work on cars." May added as she and her sisters filled up on the food being served.
"He'll have one built." Gaz said as she and Mabel approached them. "Just have to find a place to build it first."
"As long as it's away from wherever I'm setting up a base, I don't care." a disguised Tak huffed as she and a disguised Tenn drank their drinks while Mabel approached them all.
"Thanks again for coming." Mabel said before looking up at a portrait of McGucket. "It helps take the sting off."
"No problem." Gaz said as she pulled her into a hug. "Besides, this is helping us too. Get the locals used to us since we'll all be moving here."
"Uh, not all of us. Remember?" Fink reminded her. "Shannon and I have to return after Zim's mansion is built."
"That won't be for a while. For now, just relax and have fun with the rest of us." Gaz told her.
"Speaking of the rest of us, aren't you guys short a few women?" Mabel asked after looking around. "I see your friend Parker talking to Tambry and Wendy over there by the window, and Luan's telling jokes over by the cider fountain. I also saw Lily walking around in the garden in her bare feet, but that's it. Where's everyone else? And Zim?"
"Coming here wasn't mandatory. They're probably still looking around town is all." Gaz answered. "As for Zim, blame Tak here."
"That was all his fault!" Tak defended before shuddering. "Zim as the Tallest? That's not funny at all."
"Aw. But I wanted to help you guys meet the rest of Gravity Falls." Mabel whined.
"I'm seeing enough." Tak said.
"Well well. As I live an breathe. Is that you, Mabel Pines?"
Mabel turned around and looked left and right before a whistle come from below her. She looked down to see a small man in a fancy blue suit and tall stack of hair standing before her.
"Hey there, Mabel." the man said with a smile.
"Gideon!" Mabel exclaimed with a smile of her own. "Why didn't you tell me you were back in Gravity Falls?!"
"I just got here not too long ago. Thought I'd come back and see how everyone was doing." the midget said. "And I won't deny, I'm curious to see if McGucket left me anything. But I am glad to see you."
"Hold on. Gideon? As in that Lil' Gideon you said once creeped you out?" Gaz asked as she made herself known. Gideon looked up at her, then at her other friends that were nearby with wide eyes.
"See something you like, little man?" Lum asked before throwing a wink at him.
"AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!" Gideon screamed as he turned and ran off somewhere into the mansion, leaving a lot of people looking in confusion.
"That was not the reaction I expected." Lum finally said.
"Don't take it personal." Mabel spoke up as she looked at them all. "Gideon's got a big fear of women like you."
"What? Beautiful?" Lum asked.
"No."
"Furry?" Fink pondered.
"Uh uh."
"Tall?" Wednesday asked.
"Stacked." Mabel answered as she cupped her own flat chest. "Anything bigger than this is enough to set him off."
"Why?" Lee Kanker asked. "Someone nearly kill him with their tits?" she laughed.
"Yeah. Me." Mabel admitted, causing the laughter to stop.
"What happened?" Gaz asked.
"A few years back, we went on a date and-"
"Wait. Date? I thought you hated him." Gaz interrupted.
"After that incident with you-know-who, Gideon changed a lot. He became a nice guy. A few years back, he asked me on a date and I decided to give him a chance." Mabel explained. "It was great until..."
-Flashback-
Mabel, unshrunk, was walking alongside Gideon as the two came out of the movie theater.
"That was a great movie." Mabel said as she sipped her soda. "Really hated the part where Tiffany died in the chopper crash."
"Hey! Don't spoil it!" a random patron yelled as they waited in line for tickets.
"You don't even know what we watched!" Mabel snapped as she starting walking towards the guy.
"Oh ignore them." Gideon brushed off before turning to Mabel. "Thanks for coming out with me, Mabel. I had a really great day."
"Yeah. It was fun." Mabel agreed.
"Actually, you know what would finish this date off quite nicely?" Gideon asked, his cheeks turning red as he swirled his foot in the dirt before closing his eyes and puckering his lips up at her. Mabel rolled her eyes before smiling and walked back towards him, not seeing someone miss a nearby trash can with their soda cup. Some leftover ice slipped out in front of her foot, causing her to stumble and flail before falling forward. She screamed as she fell, making Gideon open his eyes just in time to see two sweater stretching breasts collide with his small frame.
"Ow." Mabel groaned before seeing Gideon's hair sticking up from underneath her. "Whoops! Sorry Gideon!" she apologized. "...Uh...Gideon?...You okay?" she asked an unresponsive Gideon.
-Present-
"The impact had given him a concussion." Mabel finished. "I think that's why he said he felt it all play out in slow-motion. After that day, he's been afraid of any woman with a cup size above A."
"That is sad, yet incredibly hilarious." said Marie.
"Yeah. He moved out of town after graduating High School. Do me a favor and keep your breasts away from him while he's here. Okay?" Mabel asked.
"That has to be one of the weirdest requests I've ever heard." Lee Kanker chuckled.
"Well around here? It's not that weird." Pacifica said as she approached them.
"Pacifica! Hey!" Mabel exclaimed as she hugged her friend. "You made it!"
"I live here, remember?" Pacifica said before looking away. "Or, well, maybe not for long."
"I thought this wasn't your family's mansion anymore." Lum spoke up.
"It's not." Pacifica said before looking up at the portrait of McGucket. "After my parents disowned me, I had nowhere to go. I was homeless and penniless. All I had was the clothes on my back."
"Didn't you have any friends or other family you could've asked for help?" Tak asked.
"No other family. Most of my friends abandoned me after I lost my wealth and popularity." Pacifica explained. "I thought about asking Mr. Ramirez if I could stay at the guest room in the shack or with Wendy, but I kept think Dipper might show up and..." she trailed off before looking over at Dipper talking to others. The two of them locked eyes before glaring hard at each other and turning away. "Yeah, not happening." she said before turning back to the others. "For a while, I'd been sleeping inside of Greasy's Diner for shelter. It was the only place I could think of to get any sleep. One night, McGucket came by while looking for something he thought he left in Greasy's. When he found me there, he asked why I was sleeping inside the restaurant. I explained my story to him and, out of nowhere, offered to let me live up here. I was too shocked to ask why and accepted without any hesitation."
"That was nice of him." Tenn said as they all looked at the portrait of McGucket.
"Yeah. To this day, I still don't know why he took me in." Pacifica admitted. "Honestly, he treated me more like a daughter than my own dad did."
"I highly doubt that."
Pacifica scowled before looking over her shoulder to see Preston and Priscilla standing behind her, both of them in a fancy suit and dress respectively.
"Mr. and Mrs. Northwest." Pacifica greeted bitterly.
"Pacifica, is that really necessary? Call me mom." Priscilla said in a kind tone.
"You lost that right when you and Mr. Northwest threw me out." Pacifica reminded them.
"Pacifica, please-" Priscilla started, her eyes looking a little manic, before Preston stopped her.
"Pacifica, your mother and I thought long and hard about that day. We didn't realize it at first, but now we know that what we did was wrong." he said as he gently placed his hands on her shoulders. "You are our daughter. You come before anything else. We should've realized that long ago."
Pacifica stared with wide eyes at the man she once called father before giving him a neutral look.
"Bravo. Nice performance." she said with a slow clap before backing away. "I don't know what's going on, Mr. Northwest, but I don't want anything to do with either of you. Kindly keep your distance from me." she said before turning and walking away.
"Pacifica, wait!" Priscilla yelped before Preston stopped her.
"Now now, Priscilla." Preston said in a calm tone.
"But-"
"It's her choice." he said as he lead his wife away. "No matter how wrong it is." he muttered darkly as the people who had been watching were quiet through the whole ordeal.
"What just happened?" May Kanker asked.
"I'm gonna go talk to Pacifica." Mabel said before she walked in the direction Pacifica went.
-Outside Garden-
Pacifica was quiet as she strolled out into the garden, her face one of disinterest. She came to a sudden and simply stayed there, motionless. Her gaze lowered, allowing her hair to shadow her eyes as her right hand curled into a fist. With a roar, she punched the tree she was standing next to, causing a single leave to fall off and flutter down to the ground.
"Why can't those two assholes just leave me alone?!" she grit out before she heard footsteps. She turned to see Mabel standing before her. "What do you want, Mabel?"
"To see if you're alright." she answered.
"Well, I'm not." Pacifica answered before turning away and crossing her arms. "I just want this day to be over with and to never see those...those...Northwests ever again!"
"I hate them too, but you shouldn't let them get under your skin like that." Mabel said as she walked up beside her friend.
"How can I not? First they want me to marry some random guy for money. Then they throw me out when I shrink myself. Now they want me back!" Pacifica listed off.
"Why do they suddenly want you back?" Mabel asked before smiling. "Maybe they truly do miss you."
"And maybe Gravity Falls is a town as boring as dishwater." Pacifica scoffed. "Think about it, Mabel. McGucket adopted me. Now he's gone and his will is being read today. They only want me back because they want to control anything that McGucket may have willed me." She turned an angry and sad gaze at the mansion. "Ever since Mr. Northwest had to sell the mansion, he's been trying to regain it and the family's status in society. He and Priscilla would always complain about how they couldn't host the yearly party and rub elbows with other millionaires like they used to. Paid less and less attention to me as time went by." She sat down on a nearby bench and rested her chin in her hands. "I used to be so proud of being a Northwest. Now I can't stand the thought of having once been a part of that family."
"Well, you're not part of them anymore." Mabel said as she sat down next to her. "You stopped being like your family the moment you opened the gates at the one party years ago. You became better than them. All they've done is gripe about what they lost while you gained so much more. You got me and so many other true friends. You got McGucket who adopted you and treated you like a real daughter. And you even got a step brother who is kind to you and a raccoon mother who didn't have rabies and attacked you a lot."
"Hehe. Yeah, they are nice to me." Pacifica said with a smile before wiping the tears that were starting to form in her eyes. "You know something? You're right. Who cares what my old parents did to me? If anything, throwing me out was the best decision they ever made. Less time to be near them and to be myself!"
"Yeah!" Mabel yelled before hugging Pacifica, making the two of them laugh.
"Hey." Lily spoke up after appearing out of the ground. "They're about to read the will."
"Alright." Pacifica answered before she and Mabel stopped hugging. "Thanks again, Mabel."
"Anytime, Pacifica. Now come on. Let's go join the others." With that, all three of them ventured inside.
The people had all gathered into a large meeting room and were sitting with either their friends or family, all waiting for McGucket's lawyer to read the will. The lawyer in question was a man who looked like he had just taken his first steps after finishing law school.
"Let's-Let's see here." the lawyer said as he looked through his briefcase. "It was...no...wait a minute. What was this paper for?"
"This is going to take a while." Gaz huffed from where she sat next to hers and Mabel's friends.
"Sup dawg." Soos said to Gaz before frowning. "Hey, I forgot to ask when you first arrived, but is your brother here?"
"Nah. He's back home doing who-knows-what." Gaz answered.
"Okay. I didn't want a repeat of what happened the last time he came here." Soos said before smiling. "Though, funny enough, I actually owe him one."
"What do you mean?" Gaz asked in confusion. "Last time he came here, he broke things and drove away your customers."
"True. But thanks to all the money I made putting him on as an attraction, I was able to pay for a wonderful date with Melody here." Soos answered. "We played games, went to a movie, had a dinner at a fancy restaurant-"
"And it all lead up to a perfect ending." Melody finished as she held up her wedding ring, making Lily gasp in joy.
"So next time you see your brother, tell him Soos says thanks." Soos said before pointing at them. "And also tell him that he's still not allowed at the Shack."
"I will." Gaz chuckled.
"HEY!"
"YAHH!" the lawyer yelped after Stanley Pines shouted, making him throw his papers up in panic. "Oh no! My papers!"
"Unless any of them are the will, ignore them! A lot of us have been waiting to hear his will for some time!" Stanley grumped. "Hurry it up!"
"Uh, yes! Right! Le-Let me see!" the lawyer stuttered as he began searching his briefcase.
"Who is this yahoo?" Wendy whispered to Pacifica.
"He's Mr. Fergenson. He was barely out of Law School before Mr. McGucket hired him. And that was a month before he passed away." Pacifica answered as Mr. Fergenson kept looking. "He's smart, but that's his only good part. He stutters sometimes. He's a bit of a klutz..."
"Ah! Here's the flash drive containing the will!" he said as he pulled a flash drive out, only to suddenly begin to fumble and juggle with it. "Oh! Wait! Hold it!" he said as he tried not to drop it, causing many of the attendees to freak out.
"And a total butterfingers." Pacifica sighed as Mr. Fergenson kept trying to catch the flash drive.
"Careful with that!" Preston yelled before Fergenson accidentally swatted it towards the crowd with his hand, causing the room to erupt into chaos as everyone tried to grab the will. Some were jumping to grab the flash drive. Some ran into each other to catch it. Some were just watching everything unfold from where they sat.
"Watch out!"
"Catch it!"
"I got it!...No I don't."
The flash drive kept on bouncing around the room before a blur suddenly grabbed the flash drive. Everyone looked to see a disguised Mimi holding the flash drive in her mouth before calmly giving it to Tak, who began to pet her.
"Oh good! You caught it!" Fergenson sighed in relief as he approached Tak. "I'll take that flash drive now."
"No." Tak denied while holding the flash drive away.
"What?!" Fergenson asked in confusion.
"Hey! You trying to keep the will from all of us?!" Sheriff Blubs asked.
"No. I'm just not handing it to this twit. If I do, the next game of catch will probably spread all over Gravity Falls." Tak explained as she stood up. "Where is this supposed to be plugged in?" she asked the lawyer.
"N-Now see here! As Mr. McGucket's lawyer, I'm the only one authorized to-" he began before Tak grabbed his collar and pulled him close.
"Where?!" she demanded.
"There's an outlet on the podium! I was told to plug it in there! Please don't hurt me!" the lawyer blubbered under Tak's enraged gaze.
"That's better." she said before she draggeg him to the podium and saw an outlet for the drive. "There?"
"Yes!" the lawyer nodded. Tak plugged the device in, causing a small lense to appear before shooting a beam up. The beam spread before an image of McGucket holding a cane and having an oxygen tube in his nose appeared.
"Howdy folks! If you're watching this, then I've done gone and headed to that big Hootenanny in the sky!" the holographic McGucket laughed.
"That's the man who invented the Memory Gun?" Fink asked with a raised eyebrow
"That's him. Or a recording of him." Gaz answered.
"Don't let his appearance fool you. That man was one smart cookie." Wendy said in McGucket's defense.
"Now I know that a lot of you are wondering who gets what and all that, and I don't know when I'll keel over, so let's get this over it!" McGucket decided as he pulled out a piece of paper. "I, Fiddleford Hadron McGucket, bequeath to one-one-one-one-one-one-one-oooooooo...
Everyone watched as McGucket's hologram suddenly glitched in and out before the whole thing turned off.
"Hey! What happened?!" Stanley yelled.
"Hmm. Perhaps the system malfunctioned. Let me take a look." Stanford volunteered as he walked up the podium, with Mr. Fergenson offering assistance.
"You! What did you do?!" Priscilla asked while pointing an accusatory finger at Tak.
"Why are you asking me?" said Tak.
"You had the will! You must've done something!" she exclaimed.
"I plugged it in like this nitwit told me to!" Tak snapped while pointing at the lawyer before the lights went out. "Let me guess. I'm responsible for that too?"
CRASH!
Everyone jumped as several windows were broken as unknown objects were thrown into the room. Smoke then began to spew from little balls, causing the inhabitants to cough.
"WHAT IS THIS?!"
"WHAT'S GOING ON?!"
"HEY! GET OFF ME!"
"LET GO!"
"QUICKLY! THE DOOR!" Preston yelled before he ran towards the door, with others in the room heading for it. The people ran out of the smoke filled room, only to find themselves surrounded by a large group of mysterious people in dark cloaks.
"Who are these guys?!" Wendy asked after she got the smoke out of her eyes.
"Who we are isn't important." one of the cloaked figures said as she, going by her voice, strode forward. "Did you get it?!" they shouted.
"Right here!" one of the assailants said as they held up the flash drive. The audience saw this before seeing Stanford, Fergenson and Tak all struggling against a few other cloaked individuals.
"Stanford!"
"Tak!"
"The lawyer!...What was his name again?"
"Get your hands off my brother!" Stanley roared as he raced towards Stanford to save him.
"Stay back!" one of them yelled as they pulled a gun on Stanford, making Stanley stop in his tracks. "One more move and they die!" they warned as the other cloaked men all pulled out pistols and aimed at the crowd, making them freak out.
"We don't want your lives, but we will open fire if we have to." the leader stated. "Just cooperate and you'll all get out alive."
"Aren't you law officers?! Do something!" Priscilla yelled to Blubs and Durland.
"Do what?! We'd be swiss cheese if we tried anything!" Blubs pointed out.
"W-Why?! Y-Y-You can't ge-get McGucket's m-m-money just because y-you have it!" Fergenson stuttered.
"It's not us who wants it. We're just hired to get it by any means necessary." the leader clarrified before snapping her fingers. Two of the thugs then moved and pointed their guns at Pacifica while a third restrained her from behind.
"Ow! Hey! Let go of me!" she cried out as they moved her next to the leader.
"PACIFICA!" Priscilla yelled in horror.
"We were also told to bring you." the leader said to the captured blonde. "And now that we have you and the will, we'll be on our way." she said before turning towards the door.
"Hold it right there!" Preston yelled, causing some of the cloaked figures to aim their guns at him. "Who do you think you are?!"
"Didn't I tell you that who were are isn't important?" the leader asked. "I also believe that you were told to stay put."
"I will not!" Preston refused. "I won't hide while some thugs hurt my only daughter!"
"I thought she wasn't your daughter. I heard you disowned her." the leader reminded him.
"I won't deny that I made many mistakes, with the biggest one being that I disowned my own flesh and blood over something so petty as her not listening." Preston admitted shamefully before his glare hardened. "But I'd be nothing more than scum if I allowed you common thieves to take her away from me!"
"Common thieves?" the leader repeated, sounding a little offended. "If we were common thieves, we'd have hit a convenience store, not jack the will and adopted daughter of the richest guy in the state."
"I don't care about the money! All I want is my daughter back!" Preston announced.
Many of the audience gasped at that last sentence while they all stared at Preston in shock, with Pacifica being the most floored by Preston's statement.
"I think I've gone senile. Did that guy just say that he doesn't care about the money?!" Stanley asked after getting his mouth to work.
"Preston Northwest not caring for money? Well, I've heard it all now." the leader said.
"It's the truth!" Preston confirmed. "There's tons of money in the world, but only one Pacifica. Northwest or not." he said with a kind smile towards his daughter. Pacifica was silent, even as her eyes started to well up.
"Blah blah blah. Great speech." the leader drawled. "Still, we've got our orders. She comes with us. Or did you forget about the guns?"
"You cowardly cur! Too afraid to fight me by yourself?! Without all these men and those weapons, you wouldn't have the guts to try something like this!" Preston snapped in anger. "You wouldn't even have it in you to fight me by yourself!"
"Oh wouldn't I?" the leader asked as she approached a coat of arms before pulling the swords from them. "All units! Stay out of this!" she ordered before tossing Preston a sword, which he caught with one hand. "You think I'm a coward, huh?" she asked before aiming her sword at him. "Put your money where you mouth is!"
"Very well! En garde!" Preston yelled before the two began to circle around each other. This lasted for a moment before they both struck, the sound of steel echoing throughout the room. The two then began to fight, their swords clashing as the audience watched. They danced around the room as they lunged, parried, thrust and dodged each other's strikes. It started evenly matched before the leader started to get a little sloppy with their footwork.
"This...doesn't make sense!" she growled before she guarded against Preston's downward slash.
"What? That you're losing?! It only shows that I was right!" Preston answered as he pushed against the leader's guard before she turned and shoved Preston away before they both got back into their stances.
"I mean that a guy like you would fight for anyone! I heard that you tried to hide while the guests from you final party here would turned to wooden statues!" the leader said.
"The man I was back then was indeed a selfish lout! During these last few years, I came to realize how horrible I was. To the townsfolk. To my daughter. To human decency in general." He raised his blade as he said with pride. "That man is dead!" he declared before he lunged at the woman. She raised her guard but it was no use as she was thrown back from the force of Preston's charge, her sword knocked from her hands.
"S-Shit!" the woman cursed before quickly pulled out her own gun. She aimed it at Preston but couldn't pull the trigger fast enough as the man had kicked the weapon upwards out of her hand. It spun in the air before landing in Preston's free hand, where he then pointed it at the leader.
"You lose, wretched scoundrel!" he declared.
The audience cheered before they began to chant his name.
"PRESTON! PRESTON! PRESTON! PRESTON!"
"ALL UNITS, TAKE AIM!"
The chanting stopped when the leader's voice rang out, the leader's army aiming their weapons at Preston.
"I'll admit that I lost to you, but don't get ahead of yourself! I never said we'd leave quietly if I lost!" the leader yelled. "Now drop your weapons or we'll perforate you!"
The atmosphere grew tense in the room as the group kept their pistols aimed at Preston. The man in question didn't move before he gave them a small smile.
"No." he answered.
"W-What?!" the leader yelped.
"You heard me. I refuse to relinquish my weapons." Preston elaborated.
"D-Don't you see all the weapons being aimed at you?! You'll die if you don't surrender!" the leader yelled, sounding almost hysterical.
"Oh really?" he said before he took the pistol in his hand...and aimed it at his own head?
"PRESTON! WHAT ARE YOU-"
click!
POP!
Everyone flinched after Preston pulled the trigger and the gun went off. Pacifica was among those who closed their eyes.
"...Is...Is he...?!" she got out in a shaky voice.
"Pacifica...look." Mabel even voice came out.
Pacifica carefully opened one eye to look at her father before both eyes shot open.
Preston Northwest was still alive, the gun still in his hand now sporting a small sign sticking out of the barrel, the word 'BANG!' in bold on it.
"Wait, what?" Fink asked before she saw one of the thugs trembling. She frowned before she grabbed their gun, examined it, and squeeze the trigger. "Water?!" she yelped as a stream of water shot out while Wendy took another gun and pulled the trigger, causing a dart to fly out and stick to Parker's forehead.
"A sticky dart?" she said as she pulled it off. "These guys don't have guns! They're using toys!"
"Crap!" one of the henchmen yelped as they all dropped their 'weapons' before holding their hands up. "The jig is up!"
"Boss! What do you we do?!"
"You said everyone would be too scared to notice!"
The crowd scowled at the thugs and looked ready to attack while Preston went up to freed Pacifica.
"Pacifica, are you alright? They didn't hurt you, did they?" he asked in concern. Pacifica just stood there, her mind replaying all the harsh and hurtful things she'd said or thought of about her father.
'Maybe they truly do miss you.'
Mabel's words brought more tears to Pacifica as she sniffled before wiping her eyes and smiling.
"Yeah...I'm alright...thanks for saving me...d...da-"
"DAMMIT!" the leader suddenly roared as she started to smash her fist against the floor. "THIS PLAN SHOULD'VE WORKED! I SPENT SO LONG AND COVERED ALL THE BASES! HOW COULD IT BE RUINED?!"
"How?" Preston asked as he approached, his blade pointed at her. "It's because you messed with a new Northwest!"
The crowd began to cheer Preston's name again, making the man smile.
"Now, any last words before the policemen there haul you and your group away like the scum you are?" Preston asked.
Preston's eyes widened at the sudden sounds of screaming and flashing lights going off behind him. He turned to see pink lights filling the room, followed by the townsfolk being shrunk and quickly placed into glass jars.
"Wh-What is all-"
"You know, I do have something to say?" Preston heard the leader say before a pink light enveloped him, making him shrink to the size of an action figure. He was then grabbed and placed into his own glass jar before being held up to the cloaked figure's face.
"The deal is off!" they announced, making Preston look up at them in absolute shock. Silence...
"Whoa! Did not see that coming, dawg." Soos said.
"Whoops! Missed one." a thug said before shrinking Soos.