If I'm being honest, I'm not really all that satisfied with this chapter but I got the plot moving and right now that is what is important. I'd really like to finish this story before 2020 if you know what I mean. Start the fic.
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Curtain Coast City...
On a billboard high above the other buildings sat Dipper and Pacifica. Dipper had dug out his goggles from their Jack Frost adventure and was using them to survey the city below.
"Anything yet?" asked Pacifica.
"Maybe... I'm not sure. I need the Love God to confirm it. Where is he anyways?"
"The ladder up here was kind of rickety so I told him it couldn't support his weight. He's been trying to fly up here this whole time."
"I was wondering what was taking him so long."
A hand landed on the floor which was soon followed by a gasping and wheezing Love God.
"Oh geez! Phew! I don't think you guys appreciate how hard flight is! I have to actually work to get off the ground!"
"Then maybe you should have kept yourself in better shape!" Pacifica snapped.
"Ugh! So much hate! Seriously, its a bad color for you!"
"Hey," Dipper pulled the Love God over to himself so he could inspect Dipper's findings through the goggles. "These your guys?"
"Hang on second." Love God took the goggles and gazed through them. "Is there a zoom function on these..."
Dipper adjusted the dial.
"Oh! Sweet! Yep, those are the hoodlums that took away my precious little Herbie."
"Good!" Dipper took the goggles back, handed them to Pacifica, and pointed to the area the gang was. "Now that we have a positive I.D. on them we can do a more thorough investigation."
"Hang on a second." Pacifica held up her hand stopping Dipper's train of thought. "Something seems odd about this street gang."
"What do you mean, partner?"
"Dipper, every single one of these gang members has a motorcycle parked by the curb! They aren't a street gang, they're a motorcycle gang!"
"Not possible!" snapped the Love God. "Those dudes are stationary! I should know, I tried to get Herbie back on my own by sneaking in to their hide out..." a haunted look came in to existence on the Love God's face. "That-That didn't go well."
"Wait!" Dipper snapped. "You know their hideout and you didn't tell..."
"Hold it!" Pacifica cut in. "They got something on the back of their leather jackets. I think it might their gang name..."
"What's it say?"
"They are the... oh you have got to be kidding me. Has to be some kind of flu-nope they all have it. They name is the... Huggle Chains."
"Wat?"
"You heard me right Dipper. They choose to call themselves the Huggle Chains."
"That's the stupidest gang name I have ever heard of!"
"I like it." stated the Love God.
"You would."
"There doesn't seem to be a whole lot of them. Six or seven of them at the most, I don't think sneaking in is an option at all."
"Maybe if we disguised ourselves we could pass off as newbies looking to join."
"Wait..." Pacifica put down the goggles down and a smile raced across her face. "Disguises can mean just one thing! Shopping!"
"Oh no! Please, Pacifica! We JUST went shopping!"
"No we went hat shopping! This is disguise shopping, like, its completely different!"
"Whoa. Whoa! Whoa!" The Love God's outburst captured Dipper and Pacifica's attention. He was down on the floor looking through the goggles. "Guys, the ring leader just showed up!"
Dipper snatched the goggles out of the Love God's hands. "Let me see!"
"Well?" Pacifica asked. "What's he look like?"
"I don't believe it. He actually does look like something out of Grease, big oily black hair combed over and everything. Wait a second..." Dipper zoomed in for a moment. "Hey has the bug!"
"What?"
"Really?!"
"Yeah! I can see it! He put it inside some kind of plastic Tupperware container but... uh-oh! They're getting on their bikes!"
"What do we do?! We'll never be able to get back to your RV in time." exclaimed the Love God.
"Don't worry, I got it handled with a new little feature I added in."
He pressed a button on the dial and small device shot out from the antennae and latched itself on to the back of the gang leader's leather jacket.
"Haha. Yes! Nano Tracking Beacon successfully attached to target!"
"When did you add that one in?" asked Pacifica.
"Very recently."
"Well that's good news then." The Love God puffed up his chest. "You know being up here, it makes feel like singing! You two should totally take advantage of the scenery and make out!"
Pacifica stood behind him looking absolutely done. "You want to sing? Fine! How about Free Falling?" With one good shove Pacifica pushed the Loved God off of the billboard.
"Whoa!" shouted Dipper. "That was a little extreme don't you think?!"
"Oh nonsense! He's a god, that means he's immortal right? Plus he can fly! He'll be fine!"
Dipper didn't say anything, he ignored the screaming of the Love God and looked through the goggles again. He suddenly stood up straight. "Uh oh!"
"What uh oh?"
"The Love God's screaming is so loud these guys actually hear it! They're looking around everywhere to spot where its coming from!"
"What?!"
"They're going to spot us!"
"Dipper, do something!"
Acting on instinct, Dipper the only thing he could!
One of bikers, searching for the source of the mysterious screaming, looked up at the billboard...to find nothing out of the usual. This was because the billboard was a poster of an upcoming remake to the movie Gone With the Wind and Dipper was dipping Pacifica exactly the way the man in the poster was dipping the woman.
The bikers eventually shrugged it off as the Love God finally hit the ground but Dipper and Pacifica remained frozen in place. She stared up at him and he stared down at her. The two remained frozen in place for what seemed like an eternity gazing deeper and deeper in to each other's eyes.
*THUD*
With the Love God's impact on the ground shortly followed by the sounds of motorcycles revving Dipper and Pacifica immediately separated from each other. They were both blushing beet red as they avoided eye contact with each other.
"We uh..." stammered Dipper. "We should probably head back down now."
"Mmhmm."
Bottom of the ladder...
Luckily for our duo sleuths the RV was parked nearby and the Love God's impact crater was even closer to them than that.
"I'll set up the tracking equipment in the RV, you see if you can get Captain Suave out of his crater."
"Why do I have to get him out?!" Pacifica snapped.
"Because you put him in there!" Dipper snapped back.
"Sigh. Fair enough."
"Oh! Before I forget I made you a little something."
"Really? For me? What is it?"
Dipper reached in to his pocket and tossed her something.
What landed in her hands was some kind of high tech gun with what looked like some kind of weird tuning fork at the end instead of a barrel.
"It is called a Magnet Gun. This is my own version of gun my Great Uncle Stanford let me use on one of our adventures. I assure you, mine works better than his did way back when."
"Wow! Dipper, when did you make this?"
"I started working on it shortly after I gave you your badge. An umbrella isn't a very impressive weapon for an officer of the law to have. Know what I'm saying?"
"Wow, thanks Dipper."
He shot her a couple of finger guns and walked in to the RV. "I'll show you how to use it later!"
'Dipper, what the heck was that?! Trying to look cool in front of her like that isn't going to impress her! You should have just given her the gun and left on a compliment!'
As Dipper mentally kicked himself he failed to notice a light blush appearing on Pacifica's face. She watched the doorway Dipper left through for a moment and a small smile graced her lips.
A hand shot out of the Love God's impact crater shortly followed by the rest of the overweight man.
"Oh. Its you." Pacifica dryly observed. "I forgot about you for a second."
"Please stop trying to kill me, I'm the God Father to a Snadger! He might need me one day!"
The Love God looked just as bruised as any man would from falling from such a height. Little rocks were sticking out of his face but outside of that there didn't seem to be any permanent damage.
"I doubt you'd die by my hands but, like, whatever."
"Oh, what's that you got there?"
"This? Just a little something from Dipper. Kind of sweet rea-Oh wait! Tell me you're not going to start going off about how Dipper likes to give gifts to his girlfriend because that is NOT how our relationship is!"
"Of course not Pacifica, I would never call you his girlfriend!"
The Love God had genuinely caught Pacifica off guard for a change. She looked down at her new gun and then up at the Love God.
"Wow, really? Well good!"
"No the proper term for you is his 'wife'!"
"What?! How am I like his wife?!"
"Well let's see..." Love God held up his hand and started to list them off on his fingers. "You live under the same roof as him, you share all your meals with him, you face every obstacle together, you stick together in troubled times, you go shopping together, I could go on forever Baby! Why the only thing that would cement it would be some kind of mutually naked act you committed together."
Pacifica froze. She was as stiff as a plank of wood. Her eyes darted away and then back to the Love God.
"Oh my me! You have! Oh girl you have to dish right now!"
"It didn't mean anything! It's not like we had sex or anything! He was just saving my life!"
"So saving your life doesn't mean anything?"
"No-I mean Yes- I mean... GRR! Just shut up!"
"Naw, not yet Sunshine. I need details!"
"Didn't Jack Frost tell you anything?"
"Jack Frost was involved?"
"He didn't tell you?"
"No. Maybe he was just respecting your privacy?"
There was an awkward silence for a moment and then they both said in unison "Naaah!"
So Pacifica regaled the Love God of her frozen adventure and much to her surprise he was nothing but patient and quiet through out the whole deal.
"And that's what happened."
"Sounds like it was critical turning point in your relationship."
"It was but you know..." Pacifica laid down on the ground for a second, staring up at the sky. "On this train adventure I overheard Dipper saying that he blames himself for my life change but the truth is I never really saw it as a bad thing."
"Really?"
"Yeah, I mean, like, don't get me wrong, it was a very cushy life. Living in a penthouse sweet, an entire fortune to inherit, and only the most exquisite meals imaginable but..."
The Love God urged Pacifica to continue "But?"
"It was all kind of boring. And given how my childhood was so exciting my adult life seemed like kind of a disappointment in comparison. With all the weird things that go on in Gravity Falls I guess it sort of seemed like a hollow victory."
"What kind of weird things?"
"Never mind all that. Then these weird lightning goblins started to ransack the family fortune and I had too much spice in my life, that was when Dipper came back. Yes, he did fail to protect my money but I wouldn't call the life on the road he's given me a bad one either. Yeah a lot of parts of it are, like, scary but its also kind of exciting and he makes it fun. For me at least."
Little did Pacifica know that Dipper was able to hear her entire conversation inside the RV.
*BEEP!**BEEP!**BEEP!*
Dipper raced out holding the laptop. "Everyone in to the RV! They're on the move!"
The Love God and Pacifica raced in to the RV and before you could say 'Follow that car!' they were off on the road following the tracking device. Where it lead them however, was a very curious place indeed. Certainly not even the Love God had expected them to be lead to such an establishment.
It was a nightclub lounge. The type with butlers in tuxedos and lady singers wearing sequin dresses. One might think it was some kind of mistake if it was not for the seven motorcycles parked out front.
"These guys are weird." deduced Dipper.
"Yes!" Pacifica cheered earning her the attention of Dipper and the Love God. "I have the perfect dress for this! This is going to be the best undercover mission ever!"
"What? What dress?"
"I was able to keep some of my fancy dresses from my old life Dipper and now thanks to mission I can wear one of them and go undercover as a lounge singer."
"Pacifica, that's a lot to..." Dipper started.
"Out!" Pacifica cut in.
"What?"
"Out! The both of you! I'm going to need the RV to get changed! Now out!"
"What's wrong with the privacy curtain?" asked Dipper. "It was always good enough before!"
"Dipper," Pacifica looked at him with a pleading face. "please just give me this?"
"Sigh. Alright, fine."
Omake
Outside the RV, the Love God was giving Dipper an annoyed stare.
"Listen Indiana Fedora, I don't care what you say. Neither one of you can honestly be happy with ignoring your feelings. I know romantic tension when I see it and..."
"You're right."
"I don't care what you... wait, did you just agree with me?"
"Yes. I can't ignore my feelings for Pacifica any longer and it is time I do something about it!"
"This is great! You're going to make a move!"
"Yes, but I must stick with my plan!"
"What? What's that mean?"
"When I was twelve I probably would have done something ridiculous like make a list on what to do and what not to do, but thankfully I've grown out of that."
"Well that's a relief."
Dipper ran to the RV's trunk for a second and then came back with a poster board.
"First I start with a pie chart!"
The Love God groaned and facepalmed.
"What? Do you think a graph would have been better?"
That's it for now. And YES, Dipper is going to actively pursue Pacifica. But will Pacifica pick up on this? Will Dipper still be his own worst enemy? What about the Love God and Herbie? Only one way to find out and that is to keep reading. So leave me a review about it if you enjoyed this chapter and that will help me write faster.