THE BIG BIG CHAPTER THAT EXPLAINS A LOT OF THINGS!
After Maggie found and put her bra back on, she and Luan slowly made their way back to the others.
"You doing alright?" Maggie asked Luan.
"Yeah. The dizzy spells are gone." Luan answered.
"Sorry about that. I didn't want to step on you while fighting." Maggie admitted. "Well, we're back to normal, so you won't have to worry about going through that again."
"You say that like it's a bad thing." Luan replied, earning an odd look from her shirtless friend. "Aside from the bouncing, it was...really nice in there." she admitted with a blush. Maggie blushed as well before smiling and looking away.
"LET ME GO! I'LL HAVE MY REVENGE! YOU HEAR ME?!"
Maggie frowned and brought up her left hand that was keep a tight hold on a squirming Polly.
"YOU HAVEN'T WON YET! I'LL MAKE YOU ALL PAY! BIG HENRY'S DEATH SHALL BE AVENGED!" she screamed before she started to cackle.
"How much further do we have to go? She's starting to give me a headache." Maggie groaned.
"How far did you run when you were huge?" Luan asked. Both of them looked down at the trail of giant footprints Maggie had left before sighing. "We've got quite a bit of walking to do."
"It'd be more pleasant without this little spaz screaming.
"SHUT UP, HUGELING! I WON'T GO DOWN WITHOUT A FIGHT!" Polly snapped as she tried to bite her way out.
"...Ow." Maggie said with an unamused look. Polly kept on trying before she ran out of steam and just panted and glared up at Maggie.
"How...How did this happen? I planned everything out! My men and I spied on everyone! We made enough flashlights for all of us to shrink you all and-" Polly began before her eyes widened. "Wait just a second! How come you weren't shrunk and brought with the others?!"
"That's been bugging me as well. How'd you become huge instead of small?" Luan asked.
"Well, I had just gotten out of the shower and had wiped the condensation off the mirror. That's when I saw one of those guys aiming the flashlight at me." Maggie began.
-Flashback-
"Peek-a-boo." the Lilliputtian said, getting Maggie's attention. She screamed as he flicked the light on, sending a pink light her way. However, before it hit Maggie, her foot slipped on the wet bathroom tile, making her fall and dodge the beam that hit the mirror and bounce back at him, shrinking him down to his normal size.
"What the-?! Who the-?! What are you supposed to be?!" Maggie yelled after she got up and looked down at the Lilliputtian.
"Uh oh!" he yelped before he ran towards the flashlight.
"Oh no you don't!" Maggie snapped as she quickly grabbed both him and the flashlight. "Gotcha, you little...whatever you are!" she said as she glared at him before her towel slipped off, leaving her exposed. "Crud. Focus, Maggie!" she muttered before raising her voice. "LISA! ARE YOU THERE?! COME HERE, QUICK!" she called out. A moment of silence later made Maggie worry before she looked down at the Lilliputtian. "What's going on?! Where's Lisa and Zim?!"
"Wouldn't you like to know?" he asked with a smug smirk. Maggie growled at him before she walked out of the bathroom and began looking around the house.
"I really hope nobody sees me like this." she said as she walked into the room where Zim was resting, only to find the bed empty. "Crap! LISA! ZIM! WHERE ARE YOU?!"
"Maggie! Over here!" came a muffled shout. She looked at the bed and saw a pillow start to rise. She put the flashlight down and lifted the pillow to see a shrunk Lisa and Zim inside a jar, with Lisa holding her hands towards the pillow Maggie just moved.
"Maggie! I'm glad you foooooooooooooooo-" Zim began before his eyes widened at the sight of her giant nude form.
"By Einstein's mustache." Lisa muttered, her own cheeks going red.
"HEY!" Maggie yelled, snapping them out of it. "Are you two alright?"
"Aside from getting shrunk, stuffed in a jar and smothered with a pillow so we couldn't call for help, we're fine." Zim answered from where he lay on his back, most of him still in casts.
"That creature snuck in and shrunk us with that strange flashlight." Lisa informed Maggie while pointing at the flashlight in question. Maggie nodded before holding her hostage up to her face.
"Alright you...whatever you are! Who are you, why were trying to shrink us, and how do I undo it?!" Maggie demanded.
"To answer all three of your questions: Fuck you!" the Lilliputtian cursed. "I ain't telling you hugelings squat! So you can just suck my golf balls!"
Maggie looked at him before her brows furrowed.
"AAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!" the Lilliputtian screamed in terror as Maggie held him up by his legs over an active garbage disposal in the kitchen.
"Feel like talking now?" Maggie asked before she flipped him over and held him up by his head, then slowly lowered him closer to the disposal. "Or do you wanna kiss your golf balls goodbye?"
"I'LLTALKI'LLTALKI'LLTALKFORTHELOVEOFTHEEIGHTEENHOLESI'LLTALK!"
-Present-
"After that, he squealed like a pig and told us everything. Polly's plans, how to work the flashlight, everything." Maggie finished.
"When I get my hands on that traitor, I'm going to-" Polly began before delving into muttered cursing.
"Wow. You can be a pretty mean bitch when you want to." Luan chuckled.
"I know." Maggie shrugged as they continued walking. "As for how I got huge, I'll let Lisa and Zim explain when we meet up with them."
"You going to be okay being around him?" Luan asked in both worry and teasing.
"Maybe." Maggie admitted. "Anyway, let's go rejoin the others. They're probably done rounding up all the others by now."
"Let's." Luan agreed.
After a bit more walking, the two women had finally returned to what remained of the golf course.
"I hope they don't bill me for this. There's no way I could pay for all these damages." Maggie sighed before a few citizens noticed her.
"LUAN! MAGGIE!" Lynn called out before she and others rushed over to the two of them. "Are you two okay?! What happened with Polly?!"
"Right here." Maggie said while holding up an angry Polly in her hand.
"I SHALL DESTROY YOU ALL!" Polly yelled before she was suddenly grabbed and placed into a jar.
"Gotcha!" Blubs stated as he locked her jar with a lid, sealing her inside before he brought her over and placed her with her henchmen, all of whom were in their own jars.
"Thanks. She was getting on my nerves." Maggie said before looking around. "Guess she and I totaled this place."
"Not to worry, hugeling." the leader of the Castle Hole said. "Our homes can easily be rebuilt."
"He's right." the leader of the Miner Hole agreed before he gained a stern frown. "Hugeling, I know what Polly did was wrong, but your insults to Big Henry hurt! We want an apology!" he demanded, with many other Lilliputtians shouting in agreement.
"Sorry about that. I needed to get her angry and follow me to keep her from stepping on others." Maggie explained. "And...I'm sorry for insulting Big Henry."
"...Okay. Apology accepted." the Miner leader accepted with a smile.
"That's it?" Maggie asked.
"What? You expecting us to hold a grudge like Polly here? Look where that lead to." he said as he gestured to the golf course.
"Again, sorry." Maggie apologized.
"Now, Maggie, was it?" Blubs spoke up. "I know you, and everyone else here, have all been through a massive ordeal, but we need to gather everyone together to get the full story."
"Sure. I don't feel like explaining it over and over again." Maggie agreed before Durland handed her a blanket. "What's this for?"
"Well, we don't have any shirts to fit your...form." he finished awkwardly.
"Oh." Maggie said, remembering that her shirt was missing. She draped the blanket around herself before she and everyone else gathered around to get the full story. As they gathered, Maggie saw many other citizens and creatures gathered, some looking a little banged up here and there and being tended to by medical personal. She then saw Mabel, Pacifica, Wendy and Tambry all wearing blankets similar to hers, all of them wearing embarrassed looks and blushes.
"You sure you don't want a lift to the hospital, Mayor Cutebiker?" a medic asked the mayor.
"I'm not that injured. I'll go to the hospital later. Right now, there are plenty of others here that need to go." Cutebiker told them before the sound of babies crying filled the air. "Like Mr. Ramirez and his family."
"Yes, Mayor." the medic obeyed as a smiling, and unconscious, Soos was rolled into an ambulance on a gurney, his wife Melody being loaded on another with both her arms holding a newborn baby each.
"Awww." Luan cooed with a smile before they saw Susie being placed on another gurney before she stirred and woke up.
"Ooowww. My head." she groaned before she looked around. "What did I miss?"
"A lot." Mandy answered.
"Ma'am, we've been informed that you took a blow to the head from a shovel. We'd like to take you to the hospital to run some tests." the medic told her.
"I'd like to go with her." Lucy offered. "If it's okay."
"Is it?" the medic asked.
"It is." Susie nodded. With that, they were taken away in the ambulance just as Gideon was being rolled away on a third gurney.
"The pain...the soft, squishy pain!" Gideon wheezed as they placed him in a different ambulance, his father jumping in to be with him.
"What happened to him?" Maggie asked as the ambulance took off.
"We'll tell you later." Blubs said before noticing two figures trying to sneak away. "HOLD IT, NORTHWESTS!" he yelled, making everyone turn towards the Northwests.
"Oh! Hello!" Preston said with an uneasy smile as he and his wife turned towards the crowd, their hands in cuffs.
"Who are they and why are they in handcuffs?" Maggie asked.
"We'll get to that after we get everyone's story." Blubs announced. "I'll be getting the statements from your friends
"You're talking like this is some sort of trial." Maggie stated.
"Something like that. However, it's only for these two." Durland stated as he glared at the Northwests.
"If we're all here, we can get started." said Blubs.
"Not quite yet." Gaz spoke up after she hung up her phone. "Zim, Lisa, Lily and Tak's cat will be here soon."
"Good." a disguised Tak said. "Maybe we can get some answers. How long do we have to wait?"
"About...five seconds." Gaz answered before Tal rolled in, shocking those who hadn't seen her before.
"What the heck is that?!" Stan asked the question on everyone's mind.
"My limo." Gaz answered as the door opened, allowing a disguised Zim, Mimi, an exhausted Lily and Lisa, holding the Lilliputtian squealer in a jar, to exit.
"GAZ! EVERYONE" Zim cried as he tried to run to her, only to hobble and fall on his face. "Limbs...still hurt!"
"Easy, Zim. I'm here." Gaz said as she scooped him up and gently hugged him. "We're all safe."
"Okay! Is there anyone else that is late to arrive or needs to be taken to the hospital?!" Blubs asked. When nobody said anything, he continued. "Okay. I know we all have a lot of questions that need answers. And I believe I speak for everyone here when I ask...what just happened?!"
"Better question! How'd you get big when we were all shrunk?!" Lee asked Maggie. That got many others all asking her the same thing. They all stopped and covered their ears after a foghorn went off, silencing them all.
"She can't answer if you all keep yapping like that!" Tal huffed.
"...Did that limousine talk in her voice?" Ford asked while pointing at Gaz.
"I'm the onboard A.I. computer program." Tal answered. "Now all of you cram it and let her talk, or the next blast blows your eardrums out!" Everyone did the smart thing and kept their mouths shut at the threat.
"Thank you." Maggie said to Tal before she retold the story she had told to Luan earlier.
"So you got away because you tripped?" Thompson asked.
"Lucky." Nate grumbled.
"But how did you get as big as Polly did?" Ford asked.
"Same way she did." Maggie answered as she stepped over to Lisa and took the prisoner from her. "This guy told us everything. Polly's plans, how many were in on it, the location of the largest crystal they used to grow Polly. Everything."
"Oh, did he now?" Polly asked with a deranged smile, scaring the Lilliputtian.
"I'm sorry, Polly! They were gonna shove my golf balls through a garbage disposal!" the prisoner wailed, causing the other Lilliputtians to gasp.
"Ooooh. If that means what I think it means, then that's fighting dirty." Lee Kanker chuckled.
"Well, it doesn't matter now. After all, you'll be punished with everyone else!" she claimed.
"Uh, in case you didn't notice, you're tiny and in a jar." Robbie scoffed.
"True." Polly nodded before pulling something out of her overalls. "But I still got one last trick up my sleeve!"
All the other prisoners started to panic at the sight of a small remote that was in Polly's hands.
"POLLY, NO!"
"THAT'S TOO MUCH!"
"YOU'LL KILL US ALL!"
"Say what now?!" Dipper yelped.
"I DON'T CARE!" Polly yelled before pushing the big red button on the remote.
"Polly, what did you just do?!" the Miner leader asked.
"I DIDN'T SPEND ALL MY CHILDHOOD MOPING ABOUT AND PLOTTING JUST ONE PLAN OF REVENGE!" she stated as the display on the remote started to count down from 15. "IN A FEW MOMENTS, THE EXPLOSIVES I'VE PLACED ALL OVER GRAVITY FALLS WILL DETONATE, BLOWING THIS WHOLE STINKIN' TOWN INTO NOTHING BUT A CRATER!"
The residents all began to scream and panic or hold onto each other and confess their love, all while Polly kept her eye on the display.
3...2...1
"I'm coming, Big Henry!" Polly said as she closed her tear filled eyes as the display hit zero.
...
Polly opened an eye as the end had not come.
"Huh?" she said in confusion, which was shared by many others in the area.
"Did it happen? Are we dead?" May asked, her eyes still shut as she and her sisters clung to each other.
"I...think we're still alive." Lynn said with a nervous chuckle.
"But-no! NO!" Polly yelled as she kept pushing the button before smacking the remote against her jar. "WHY ISN'T THIS WORKING?!"
"You got a short memory?" Maggie asked. "I told you, your friend told us everything, including your Plan B."
"WHAT?! THAT'S IMPOSSIBLE! YOU COULDN'T HAVE DISARMED ALL THOSE EXPLOSIVES!" Polly yelled in disbelief.
"You're correct. We didn't have time travel to each explosive's location and safely disarm them." Lisa answered. "We did, however, come up with a plan to render them ineffective to carry out your revenge."
"How?" Dipper asked.
"While we were trying to make a plan, Lucy and Mimi appeared." Lisa began.
-Flashback-
Lisa, Maggie and Zim were in the middle of formulating a plan in the spare bedroom of the Mystery Shack before they heard a tapping on the window.
"Mimi?" Zim said in surprise as Lisa opened the window with her power, allowing her to jump in. "What are you doing here?"
"My master's in trouble! She sent me away to find help! Everyone at the mansion is under attack!" she answered before a small Lucy rolled off her back. She was breathing hard and just laid on the floor as the others gathered around her.
"Lucy?!" Lisa yelped as she gently lifted her older sister up into her hand. "You were shrunk as well?"
"Yes...Lynn...told me...to run!" Lucy panted as Lisa placed her on the bed.
"Why are you out of breath? You run here?" Maggie asked.
"Teleporting...at this size...puts...a lot...of strain...on me!" she explained between gasps.
"As she was warping, I saw her appear out of nowhere and grabbed her before coming here." Mimi explained.
"Thank you, Mimi. Lucy, hold still." Lisa told her before pointing the flashlight at her.
"What is..." Lucy started before Lisa hit her with a blue light, making her grow back to her normal size. "You have a...flashlight?"
"One of the creatures doing this missed and hit himself. Now we're taking the information we got from him and are in the middle of creating a plan to save everyone." Lisa explained.
"Really? That's great!" Lucy said as she sat on the bed. "Anything I can do to help?"
"First, we need to contact Tal." Lisa said as she got out her phone. "We need her to take us to Mabel's home."
"I'm coming too." Zim told her.
"No Zim. You're still injured. You need to rest and-"
Whatever Lisa was about to say was cut off when Zim rose from the bed, ripped his neckbrace off with his good hand and smashed his bad arm against his leg casts, knocking all of them off and freeing him.
"Gaz is in danger. Our friends are in danger! I. Am. Going!" Zim declared. Lisa saw the determination in his eyes before sighing in defeat.
"Fine. But don't blame me if your aggravate your injuries." she warned as she tried to call Tal, only to get static. "Oh...right." she said before she opened her phone.
"What are you doing?" Mimi asked.
"According to our prisoner, Polly set up a device designed to render most communication devices useless." Lisa answered as she took a few tools from her lab coat and began tinkering with her phone. "Hopefully, I can boost the signal of my cellular phone just enough to send a message to Tal."
Suddenly, the area began to shake before a horn was blown. Everyone inside rushed to the window to see Tal had appeared.
"GET IN!" Tal ordered while Gir stuck his head out the window.
"ROADTRIP!" he yelled in glee.
-Present-
"How did you know to go there at that moment?" Gaz asked Tal.
"Being there at that moment was a coincidence. As for what brought me there, I'll explain later." Tal answered.
"Alright. Continue." said Gaz.
"After that, we made a stop to Mabel's home." Lucy continued for Lisa. "I warped inside and unlocked the door so that the others could get in. Sorry Mabel." she said towards Mabel.
"Why'd you need to go to my house?" Mabel asked.
"According to our prisoner, you were the one in possession of this." Lisa said as she brought out Journal 3.
"My journal!" Ford exclaimed.
"Correct. He told us that Polly learned about the size altering crystals from within it's pages." Lisa answered as Ford took the journal and quickly flipped to his notes on the crystals.
"How did she-" Mabel began before her eyes widened, then glared at Polly. "Did you sneak into my house?!" she angrily asked.
"That's right! I was looking for a weakness to use against you, but found those interesting books instead!" Polly answered before she smashed her remote again. "BUT WHY DOES THIS MATTER?! WHY DIDN'T MY BOMBS WORK?!"
"I'm getting to that." Lisa spoke up before clearing her throat. "After reading what we could about the crystals, including the secret notes that were written, we came up with a plan to-"
"Secret notes?" Ford interrupted before taking out a blacklight and shining it on the pages, revealing a second set of notes and crude drawings. "I didn't write this down. Dipper?" he asked while showing Dipper the pages.
"That's not my handwriting." Dipper answered before turning towards a gasping Mabel.
"Those are mine!" she said before she grinned. "You used what I discovered about the crystals to defeat Polly, didn't you?!"
"What? What'd you discover?" Dipper asked as he took a closer look at the notes. "'If you aim light from a magnifying glass at the crystal, the light gets trapped and makes the crystal go...boom?'" he read as he looked at the pictures Mabel drew of a crystal exploding.
"'Exploding crystal sends out weird energy that cancels out whatever was shrunk or grown!'" Ford continued. "Remarkable! That energy wave that hit all of us must've been from one of the size altering crystals rupturing from storing too much light!"
"You mean all that came from a crystal this big?" Marie asked as she took a tiny crystal from a flashlight.
"Not even close. To make an energy blast big enough to counter Polly's plans, we needed a crystal big enough to hit all of Gravity Falls." Lisa answered.
-Flashback-
Lisa, Mimi, Zim, Maggie, Gir and Lucy were all inside Tal as she traveled to the location their prisoner indicated. When they got there, they saw a large, unactivated portable light resting on a platform and aimed at the crystal that was being suspended in the air by wires, all of which was surrounded by a lot of human sized Lilliputtians.
"They all gots golf balls for heads!" Gir stated before a TV appeared, distracting him with the Angry Monkey Show.
"Good thing we have the cloak up." said Lisa as they watched everyone through a monitor from within Tal.
"How are we supposed to get to the crystal without alerting them?" Lucy asked.
"Wait! Someone's coming!" Zim stated as Polly arrived.
"It's time! All of you, head for the golf course!" she ordered before pointing at four of them. "You lot! Aim that light and turn it on! It's time to begin my revenge!"
The group inside Tal watched as Polly stood on the other side of the crystal while two other Lilliputtians got on the platform and raised it up. One then aimed the light and shot at the crystal from an angle before adjusting it until the beam was blue. The light was then brought closer by two others holding the wires until it was against the crystal, which was tied in place by the last Lilliputtian. The one using the light then aimed it at Polly, making her grow until she was towering over them all.
"At last! The time for revenge is at hand!" Polly declared with a laugh before she started to walk away, the other Lilliputtians following inside vehicles.
"Did they all really leave it unguarded?" Lucy asked.
"Everyone else has probably been captured and shrunk by now. Polly wouldn't think twice about anyone going against her by now." the prisoner Lilliputtian sighed. "And she was worried that one of us would ruin her plans."
"Well not only has she left the crystal unguarded, she's left all this equipment as well." Lisa said, a smile growing on her face. "And I've already got an idea on how to use this to stop her."
Maggie was standing in front of the crystal, the light ready to be shot at her.
"Do you all understand the plan?" Lisa asked.
"You and I will stay here and fire a focused light at the crystal so it can gather enough energy to release a size nullifying wave large enough to cover all of Gravity Falls." Zim began.
"To keep Polly's attention, you'll make me as big as her so I can fight her." Maggie spoke up.
"And I need to make sure Dipper survives his trip down the gas filled hole." Lucy, now back to a tiny size, added while holding up some gas masks.
"And when everyone's distracted with either Maggie or Lucy and Dipper on the Eiffel Tower hole, I'll unshrink a few of the captives, including Lily, and give them the flashlight to unshrink the rest. Then I'll have Lily open the ground below the Lilliputtians before leading her around town to use her power to shift the land so that the explosives, the oversized 'M80s' that you call them, that Polly set up everywhere will be shrunk back down to a non-lethal size." Mimi finished.
"AND I'M GONNA WATCH IT AGAIN!" Gir yelled from where he was listening inside Tal before giggling and running back in.
"...Okay." Maggie said before turning back to the others.
"You ready, Maggie?" Zim asked. Maggie looked uncertain, but took a deep breath and steeled herself.
"Hit me."
A moment later, her vision was filled with light.
-Present-
"And that's the story." Maggie finished. All of them were shocked, and some very impressed, by the turn of events that they just heard. Polly, however, just stared with wide, empty eyes. She had unintentionally handed them the keys to her downfall. She said nothing before her legs gave out and she fell to her knees in defeat.
"Pretty cool." Gaz said before looking at Tal. "There's just one bit of the story that's bothering me. How did you know to go and find the others?"
"That's easy. He told me." Tal answered.
"He?" Wednesday asked. Tal responded by forming a little projector before it turned on, revealing a holographic image of McGucket.
"ME!" the hologram answered before laughing and doing a jig.
"MCGUCKET?!" a lot of them yelled in surprise.
"What is this? A program of Fiddleford?" Ford asked.
"I'm not just any program! I'm my own brain transformed into a digital algorithm!" McGucket explained. "Don't believe me?! Ask m' lawyer!"
Everyone turned towards Mr. Fergenson, who was now sporting a bandage around his forehead.
"W-What?! Oh, yes! Yes! I mean...I was there when he did the whole...downloading his mind bit." Fergenson confirmed. "B-But as for if that hologram is the same Fiddleford McGucket? I honestly can't say."
"You're saying he could be a fake?" Manly Dan asked.
"How can we tell if it's him or not?" Wendy asked.
"I've got an idea." Ford spoke up. "We'll ask him some questions. Questions that only the real Fiddleford would know and not a computer program."
"If'n it'll get ya to believe me, fire away!" said the hologram.
"I'll go first!" Mabel spoke up. "McGucket hologram, why did you build the Gobblewonker?"
"That's easy! I was looking for attention from everyone, seein' as ma own son didn't want anything to do with me at the time!" McGucket answered.
"He's right!" Mabel gasped with a smile before turning to the crowd. "Quick! Someone else ask a question!"
"Umm...okay, I got one." Pacifica said before stepping forward. "Mr. McGucket, how much did I pay you to applaud for me so I could be crowned Party Queen?"
"You done gave me a 100 bucks!" McGucket answered.
"That's correct." Pacifica nodded.
"Aw what?!" Mabel whined.
"Hey, we were enemies back then! I wanted to win!" Pacifica protested.
"Eh, point." Mabel reluctantly admitted.
"Convinced yet?" HoloMcGucket asked.
"I've got something, but it may bring up bad memories." Ford said while rubbing the back of his neck.
"I'm dead! Whatever it is can't haunt me no more!" HoloMcGucket stated.
"Okay...Finish this sentence. 'When gravity falls, and earth becomes sky...'"
"'Fear the Beast with just one eye!' That's what I said before I tried to forget and founded the Society of the Blind Eye!" McGucket answered, making Ford smile.
"There's no doubt in my mind. This is definitely Fiddleford McGucket!" Ford stated.
"In the computerized flesh!" McGucket laughed.
"But...how? Why?" Ford asked.
"For the how, I done built a brain scannermajig and used it to download my mind to ma personal computer in the mansion!" McGucket began. Everyone turned to Fergenson, who nodded in confirmation. "As for the why? It's simple. I wanted to keep Pacifica safe from the two snakes in the grass trying to slip away! I SEE YAS BACK THERE!"
Everyone looked to see Preston and Priscilla Northwest trying to sneak away again.
"Do I got to tie a bell on you two?!" Blubs snapped as he and Durland caught the two and forced them back towards the crowd.
"Just needed to step away to...powder my nose!" Priscilla said with a weak smile.
"More like run after all yer plans went up in smoke!" HoloMcGucket huffed. "I done know what you's were tryin' to do. Thowin' all them kind words at Pacifica these past few months! I may have been sick, but I wasn't deaf or dumb!"
"Wait. What are you talking about?" Maggie asked.
"Everyone in town knew that my health was shot, and I wasn't long fer this world. After word got out, the Northwests started to talk to Pacifica whenever she would help me take a walk around town., saying that they realized their mistake and kept apologizing to her, asking her to come back and be their daughter." McGucket explained. "Pacifica didn't buy it, and neither did I. At first, I thought it was just because they wanted whatever I would will to Pacifica after ma passing, but something didn't sit right. They were trying too hard and were acting desperate. So I did a little digging around and found out that they'd run into money problems. Big money problems!"
"What does this have to do with you downloading your brain?" Mandy asked impatiently.
"Don't rush me! I'm getting ta that!" HoloMcGucket huffed. "Anywho, after I discovered their situation, I was worried about what would happen to Pacifica after I died. I wanted to try to help her, so I came up with the idea of downloading ma brain and moving around cyberspace to keep an eye on her to see if her parents tried to do anything bad to her!"
"Awww. You turned yourself into a guardian angel." Mabel cooed. "A cyber, digital one."
"But how did you end up in Tal?" Gaz asked.
"Well, I was noticing that there was some powerful interference that started to pop up since yesterday. Too powerful to try to withstand on ma own. That's when I felt a strong computer presence coming from this here limousine. I messaged her and asked to hitch a ride for a bit to keep from becoming scrambled, and she agreed." HoloMcGucket elaborated.
"Sorry for not telling anyone. He told me the story and begged me not to tell anyone. Didn't know who might be listening if any of you spoke of it." Tal explained. "When everything went to shit, I started reaching out to all your phones, but got nothing but static."
"And the reason for that was because Polly had done gotten her hands on the blueprints for a scrambler I invented to keep everyone from calling for help." said HoloMcGucket. "I couldn't figure out where it was, but the general areas were both ma mansion and the golf course where everyone was either captured or taken."
"So, how are you feeling now? I mean, with the scrambler still on around here?" Thompson asked.
"HAHA! That scrambler's done deactivated already! She stole the specs, but they were incomplete. There was a flaw I was working out for the pwer. The energy consumption was too much and drained the batteries already!" HoloMcGucket answered.
"And after they went out...well, you know the rest by now." Tal finished.
"Polly's scheme's thwarted and everyone's okay. All in all, a happy ending." said Blubs.
"Too bad the will was destroyed. Now we'll never know who got what." Durland lamented. Everyone turned to him with 'are you for real' looks on their faces. "What?"
"You do realize I'm right here, right? I can just tell everyone what I intend to give what to whom." HoloMcGucket stated.
"Oh...OH!" Durland said in realization before blushing with a nervous laugh.
"So can you tell us who gets what now?" Stan asked.
"Sure can!" said HoloMcGucket. "Ladies, gentlemen, various magical creatures, approaching angry mob! Come on down and listen!"
"Approaching angry mob?" Lum repeated before she and everyone turned to see a large group of angry people coming towards them.
"THERE THEY ARE!" one of the people in the mob shouted as they pointed at the citizens. More specifically, at a very terrified Preston and Priscilla.
"Oh no! Not them!" Preston muttered as the angry mob started to shout as they approached the Northwests, stopping when Durland and Blubs stepped forward.
"Now now! Hold it! Hold it! HOLD IIIIITTTTTTT!" Blubs yelled, quieting them down. "Now who on earth are you people and why are you wanting these two?!" he asked. One of them, a middle-aged man in a fancy suit, stepped forward.
"We, dear officer, are a group of people that are seeking payment for goods and services that we provided to the Northwest family, and have come to collect." the man answered. A lot of the audience was confused at the man's speech.
"He said they're debt collectors!" Lisa answered. That made a lot more sense to everyone.
"Quite correct." the man said with a nod before noticing everyone else. "Hmm. It appears that there is something rather...odd happening here." he said as he looked at the magical creatures mixed in with the crowd. "Have we come at a bad time?"
"A little. We were just about to arrest these two for their crimes against Gravity Falls." Blubs said as he and Durland kept the Northwests from running.
"Oh no you don't! You're not getting out of paying again!" one of the mob yelled, which served to rile up the others. Some of them, however, were being pushed aside by a figure coming through the mob.
"Excuse me! Pardon me! Coming through!" a fat man in a striped shirt with tiny wings said before he made it to the front of the crowd. "Preston Northwest, you owe me big time!"
"What the-? The Love God?" Dipper asked in surprise while Preston went pale.
"Of all the people to show up." he muttered in terror as the man approached Preston, stopping when Mayor Cutebiker stood in the way.
"Hold your horses!" he said before straightening out his hat. "I will not stand by as more violence breaks out in my town! Now I won't stand in the way of you all getting whatever money the Northwests owe you, but there will be order!"
"Fine." the Love God huffed. "Just as long as he pays me for that potion he bought from me."
"What potion?" Pacifica asked.
"The anti-love potion I loaned him years ago to make his daughter and Dipper Pines despise each other and break up." the Cherub answered while pointing his thumb towards Dipper.
Gasps rang out at that statement while Pacifica and Dipper stood frozen.
"What...did you just say?" Pacifica asked.
"Yeah. I had a tiny grudge against Dipper and his sister, so I decided to delay payment and gave him the anti-love potion. He said he wanted his daughter to drop Dipper because he was a 'low born commoner' and that his daughter refused to dump him like the 'trash that he is' and-" he explained before seeing Preston silently telling him to shut up while Pacifica turned red. "Aaaand you're his daughter, aren't you?"
Pacifica didn't respond to him. She simply turned and slowly made her way towards Preston, who was now all alone when the officers did the smart thing and backed away.
"N-Now now, Pacifica, it was for your own good! He's a commoner! You need to be with your own kind! The elite and powerful!" Preston quickly said as he backed away from his enraged daughter. "Pacifica! Cease already! I am your father! Obey me!" he ordered before he pulled out a little bell and rang it. "Obey the bell and-" he tried to say before she grabbed him by the throat with one hand. She then grabbed the bell with her free hand, snapped the wooden handle off with her thumb and then proceeded to ram the bell into his mouth, making him gag and choke on it before he fell over, the action making him swallow the bell.
"Take that bell and shove it!" Pacifica hissed while wiping her hands.
"Pacifica! Pacificaaa!" Mabel whisper yelled, catching her friend's attention. She turned to see everyone looked at her with stunned expressions.
"What? He deserved it!" Pacifica said in her defense.
"No! Pacifica!...Your blanket!"
"My what?" Pacifica asked before looking down at herself. Her eyes widened when she realized that, in her anger, she had dropped the blanket covering her, allowing everyone to see the torn clothes barely hanging onto her suddenly voluptuous form. She screamed before she ran over to the blanket she dropped and covered herself again, her face as red as a tomato.
"Hey, can we borrow some clothes from you and your friends?" Tambry asked Gaz. "We're having a little wardrobe malfunction, and I can't use my phone and hold this blanket up at the same time."
"Sure. Tal, let them in." Gaz ordered.
"What happened to her?" Zim whispered to Gaz as the crowd muttered to themselves, many of them also red, while the four women quickly walked into Tal. "Last I saw her, she was an...what was the term? Ironing board?"
"She, Mabel, Wendy and Tambry were using that flashlight to shrink themselves for various reasons." Gaz answered. "But when that wave hit us all, well..."
-Flashback-
Everyone was fighting off the extra large Lilliputtians before an explosion was heard.
"What was that?!" Parker asked while being held up by a Lilliputtian
"LOOK OUT!" Pubitor yelled as a wave of energy surged towards them all. Everyone screamed before they were engulfed in the blast. A few moments later, the energy vanished, leaving everyone okay.
"What just happened?" Robbie asked as the large Lilliputtians all turned pink before they began to shrink.
"Hey! We're shrinking!" one of them yelled.
"Awesome!" Mabel yelled before she felt her center of balance shifted. She looked down to see a blue light coming out from underneath her sweater before her flat chest started to swell up. She looked up when she heard Pacifica yell to see it happening to her as well, along with her ass.
"This...is not good!" Tambry stated as she held her growing ass while the buttons on Wendy's flannel shirt strained to hold her tits in. Sadly, it was a losing battle for them all.
RIIIP!
-Present-
"After that, they warned everyone to shut their eyes before running into that warehouse where Melody gave birth to her twins." Gaz finished.
"That's...wow." Zim said, unable to think of anything to say to that. A moment later, the four freshly clothed women departed from Tal, each one now sporting a figure that rivaled Gaz's. "I repeat...wow." he said with a blush.
"Hey! Can we get back to the main issue here?" one of the debt collectors asked before he and the others turned towards the Northwests.
"I *hic* I just need a *hic* a little more time! *hic*" he said while hiccupping, each one giving out a little ring from the bell in his gut.
"That's what you said the last time and the time before that!"
"You promised us that you'd have our money today! So where is it?!"
"I don't care if you go to prison after this, but you're not getting out of paying your dues!"
"Please! There's just *hic* just been a *hic* small problem with *hic* getting the mon*hic*ey!" he said in a desperate tone. The debt collectors looked furious, although some were snickering at hearing Preston's hiccups mixed with the sound of a bell.
"What's the pfft hehehe problem?" one asked through his chuckles.
"We were all waiting for the will to be read." said Toby.
"You mean the will of that McGucket guy?" one of the mob asked.
"That's right! And if'n you give us a minute, I can finally read it!" HoloMcGucket told them all.
The mob all turned to each other and spoke amongst themselves before they stopped.
"Alright. But afterwards, we need to talk to these two." one said while pointing at the Northwests.
"Fair enough! Okay, everyone! Listen up to the Will of...well, me! AHAHAHA!" McGucket laughed before he began to speak out names and how much he'd be giving them. Some got a little while a few got a small fortune. Others were surprised they got anything at all.
The list kept on going before McGucket got to the end.
"And finally, to my adopted daughter, Pacifica." he said, making Pacifica's eyes widen and having everyone else on pins and needles. "I thought long and hard about this one, but I believe that you've earned this. I, Fiddleford Hadron McGucket, leave you...everything else!"
Everyone was shocked after hearing how much her inheritance was.
"...Everything?" Pacifica asked in disbelief.
"That's right! Everything! The mansion, the land it's on and the rest of my fortune!" he declared.
The blonde woman merely stood there and babbled a few times before shaking her head.
"B-But I don't understand! Why would you leave me that much?!" she asked.
"You and ma son took care of me during the last few months of ma life." he answered.
"So why aren't you giving him all this?!" she asked.
"Believe me, I tried. I kept wanting him to have most of it to make up for all the years I was an embarrassment to him. But he wouldn't have it. Said it didn't feel right to take ma money after avoiding me for most of his life. He said he'd only take a few million and even suggested you get the rest." he said.
"By the way, out of curiosity, how much exactly is the rest?" Stan asked.
"This." McGucket answered before projecting a number for everyone to see, making their eyes nearly bug out of their heads.
"That...is a big ass number." Lily whispered in awe.
"I think I'm in the wrong business." Zim muttered to himself.
"That's more than what *hic* we used to have." Preston admitted.
"I...I don't know what to say." Pacifica muttered as she trembled at the number in front of her.
"I do!" the Love God spoke up with a frown. "None of that money went to your parents! Which means none of us are getting paid what they owe us!"
That got the mob to yell in anger before they descended upon the Northwests.
"Leave us alone! Haven't we suffered enough?!" Priscilla yelled while Preston hiccupped, making the bell in his belly ring. "Pacifica! Please! We're your parents! Help us!" she begged.
"HOLD IT!"
Everyone stopped after Pacifica shouted and looked at her.
"Give me a moment." she said before turned and walked towards HoloMcGucket. She then whispered something in his holographic ear, making his expression change a few times. "Would that be alright with you?"
"I got no objections, but are you sure you wanna do that? I mean, after all you've been through, it seems a little strange to do something that outrageous." he said.
"I know it is. But I still want to." she said.
"Well, I won't stop ya. Go ahead." said HoloMcGucket. Pacifica smiled before approaching the debt collectors.
"Exactly how much do they owe all of you?" she asked them.
"Actually, I have the combined amount right here." the middle-aged man said before handing a long slip of paper to Pacifica. She started from the top and slowly read it all the way to the bottom, her jaw dropping the more she read.
"What is it?" Tak asked as Mimi used her zoom function to see the amount. Her eyes widened before she whispered the number to her master. "No wonder they were desperate to get Pacifica back."
Pacifica reread the paper again before looking at her biological parents in disbelief.
"I'm almost tempted to change my mind." she muttered before raising her voice. "You two wanted me to be a Northwest so you could pay off your debts with my inheritance." she said, earning a lot of glares from the people around them.
"After all those two have done, they'd be lucky if they don't end up in some gutter with a bunch of-"
"Fine. I'll do it." Pacifica said.
If you'd listened closely, you could've heard the gears in everyone's mind lock up at that moment.
"What?!" Zim and Gaz yelped.
"What?!" Zim's harem asked.
"What?!" the citizens of Gravity Falls yelled.
"What?!" Priscilla asked in disbelief.
*Hiccup* Preston hiccupped.
The area soon erupted with words of confusion and protest.
"Pacifica, are you crazy?!" Mabel asked.
"They don't deserve it!" Dipper yelled.
"Why would you go back to them?!" Wendy yelled.
"Oh Pacifica! You do care!" Priscilla said with teary eyes.
"I knew you'd make the *hic* right choice." Preston said with a smug smile as he and Priscilla approached.
"But!" she said while quickly raising her hand to stop them. "Only on one condition."
"Condition? What condition?" Priscilla asked.
"I clear your debt. I take your name." she said in a calm tone before leveling them a glare. "But only if you two take a hike! As far away from Gravity Falls as possible!"
"WHAT?!" they yelled.
"You heard me!" she snapped before started to count on her fingers. "You threw me out when I wouldn't marry who you wanted me to marry! Then you pester me to come back after you hear McGucket was dying! You hired those little maniacs to kidnap me so you could stage a rescue and make me want to come back to you! And finally, when all your plans were shot, you blamed all this madness on me!"
"They did what?" C-Beth asked in surprise.
"It's true. I heard them accuse her of causing all this." Poolcheck confirmed.
"BOOO!" the manotaurs sneered in disgust.
"Be a man and own up to your actions!" Chutzpar huffed.
"Well it wouldn't have happened if you'd have listened to us in the first place-" Priscilla began.
"SHUT UP!" Pacifica yelled, silencing her mother. "I will not stand by and let you keep blaming me for you failures!" She took a deep breath to calm herself before looking at her parents again. "I will only say it one more time. I will clear your debt and take the Northwest name, but only if you two leave and never come back."
"Why even bother clearing their debt? I say, let them suffer!" Stan spoke up, earning a round of agreement from the others. She walked over to him and showed him the amount of money they owed. "HOT BELGIAN WAFFLES! NO AMOUNT OF OVERPRICED SOUVENIRS AT THE MYSTERY SHACK COULD COVER THIS!"
"That's why I'm paying it off. It's not because I care about these two. I just know that they'll never leave me alone with this debt hounding them their whole lives." she explained before approaching her parents. "I once made a vow to fix our family name. I plan to do that and make it better than it was when it was riding on all those lies from the past, but I can't do that if you two dumbasses are around ready to screw it up again! So now, you've got two choices. You can either keep being dumb and deal with the mess you've made by yourselves..." she began before raising her hand towards her father. "Or you can shake my hand, let me handle your debts, and then get lost. Your choice."
"Now see here, y*hic*oung lady-"
"I'd hold my tongue and look around if I was you!" HoloMcGucket interrupted. Preston looked at the hologram before looking around himself. His angry frown began to fade as he saw everyone, from the citizens to the magical creatures to even the outsiders, was glaring at him, their eyes full of anger and hate. After a few moments, he'd come to a conclusion.
He and his wife were no longer welcomed in Gravity Falls.
"...Very well." he relented as he shook Pacifica's hand. The crowd cheered at this while Mabel ran up and Pacifica, making her roll her eyes.
"Well, I've seen enough!" HoloMcGucket spoke up before looking at Tal. "Alright darlin'! I'm ready!"
"Ready?" Ford repeated in confusion. "Ready for what?"
"To be deleted!" he answered, shocking them all.
"What?! But Mr. McGucket, you can live forever this way!...in a way." Mabel cried out.
"Nah. I've lived a good life. It's had it's ups and downs, but it was a great life. But like everything, it too must end." HoloMcGucket explained. "And my time has already come. Now, kindly let me rest."
"WAIT!" Pacifica yelled before running over to him. "I...I need to know! Why? Why did you adopt me years ago?!"
"Well, when I first saw you after you had been kicked out by yer parents, for a moment, I saw myself. No family. No friends. No home ta call ma own. The only difference was that was an old man that turned myself crazy by accident. You, however, were just a teenager. Not even an adult yet! Sleeping in booths and under restaurent tables? That's no way to grow up. So I decided to take you in." HoloMcGucket explained before giving her a kind smile. "You're life is still only beginning, and you only get one. Make something of yourself, Pacifica."
Pacifica, and quite a few others, looked ready to burst into tears at that before she wiped her eyes with her arm.
"I will. Thank you, Mr. McG-" she began before she gently shook her head and looked him in the eye. "Thank you...Dad." HoloMcGucket smiled again before turning to Tal.
"I'm ready."
"Deletion in progress." Tal announced. Everyone watched as McGucket's holographic form began to dissipate, starting from his feet.
"Well everyone, I'm off! Take care of yourselves and enjoy your lives!" he yelled before he began to laugh and jig. Many in the crowd was smiling and waving him goodbye before his holographic image finally disappeared, his laughter lingering in the air for a few more seconds before silence took over.
"...Goodbye." Pacifica said, tears rolling down her cheeks at that point. She wiped them away again before turning towards the debt collectors. "I know you're all wanting your money, but would you mind giving me a day to take this all in?"
"I believe I can wait a little longer." the middle-aged man said as he wiped his eyes with a handkerchief, with many in the mob agreeing or just crying. "I'll visit you at a later date, miss..."
"Pacifica. Pacifica Northwest."
A/N: Mabel and Pacifica's figures are based off of Gooeyblob's drawings, which they've given me permission to use. As for Wendy and Tambry? I'm just having them in the same ballpark.