Chapter 17: the sine of gideon, the tent of telepathy.

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AN: Hello again.

Thanks to everyone who has commented, voted, favorite, or followed this adventure so far, we are halfway done! Special thanks to Deusblade for becoming one of the voices, I like your character idea and it will allow me to have some interesting plot beats without forcing it.

I found part of an old discord conversation from 12/20/2022 at like 12:30 am. This is all me btw.

man I'm out here missing techno again. I should probably be asleep, but I have much more important things to do.

like writing fanfiction

kinda surprised I'm the only one on right now

Discord, to hang out or become one of the voices if you want: /eSSP2GtYQS

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Dipper Pines woke up screaming. "I just had a horrible dream that Gideon stole the deed to the Mystery Shack, and kicked us out, and..." Dipper trailed off before continuing in confusion as he didn't recognize his surroundings. "We all had to move in with Soos' grandma?"

"That was no dream, dude." Soos said, sitting up next to Dipper in the fold-out couch they were sharing. Dipper screamed, waking everyone up.

"Shh. Por favor." Soos's Grandma asked, turning on the lights.

"Uh, sorry, Abuelita." Dipper apologized awkwardly.

"Oh, Soos, your grandma is so adorable!" Mabel said, walking up beside Abuelita. "And her skin is old lady soft." Mabel whispered, reaching out to touch Abuelita's skin. "Haaaahhh!"

"Mabel, quit being creepy!" Stan ordered from the other side of the room. "The news is finally on."

Abuelita turned on the TV from her recliner. "In a move that has all of Gravity Falls buzzing," Shandra Jimenez, the local news caster announced, "child psychic Gideon Gleeful" here the news showed a picture of Gideon looking like an angel, "has taken surprise ownership of the Mystery Shack, previously belonging to area shyster, Stanford Pines." The news station pulled up their file photo of Stan, with Stan wearing a devil suit and surrounded by fire.

"That picture's taken out of context." Stan said. The picture had originated from a Summerween while he was scaring children, a respectable pass time.

On the news, Shandra Jimenez was interviewing Gideon. "Now that you have the shack, what exactly are you planning to do with it?"

"I have a big announcement to make today, and I'd like to cordially invite all the good people of Gravity Falls to join me. Free admission to anyone who wears their Gideon pins! It's my face!" Gideon said, punctuating the end with a wink.

The TV was turned off, and Dipper sighed. "I just can't believe Gideon beat us. Normally I'm able to save the day. This is all my fault."

"Don't worry, Dipper. Looks like Mabel's going to have to be the hero of the family now. I'll defeat Gideon with my… grappling hook!" Mabel said, doing a little spin to present her grappling hook.

"Mabel, no offense, but that grappling hook has literally never helped us once." Dipper told his sister.

"Oh yeah?" Mabel asked. "Jelly grab!" Mabel fired her grappling hook at a giant glass jar of jelly, shattering it and slashing jelly across the walls, Abuelita's decorations, and Abuelita.

"I vacuum the walls now." Abuelita said, pulling a vacuum from who knows where to start vacuuming the walls.

"So you lost the Shack. Look on the bright side, dudes! Now you get to live here with me, Soos! Hey, anyone want to play race cars? They're out of batteries but we can make pretend." Soos spat out two Fruit Loops onto his chest. "Would that be a new low if I ate that? Haha I'm just kidding, I'm totally eating it!" Soos said, grabbing a piece of food off his chest and popping it into his mouth.

"We gotta get the Shack back." Stan deadpanned.

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A few hours earlier.

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In the woods, Techno felt the hairs on the back of his neck stand up. He felt five gazes resting on him, and began playing the dangerous balancing act of being tense enough to leap into action like a condensed spring expanding while not making it obvious he was aware of his watchers.

Techno heard a series of faint slaps off in the distance. 'Huh, might not be Gideon's plan. Sounds like somebody's havin' fun.' Techno grinned to himself about that joke before throwing himself sideways, dodging four bullets. 'scratch that, definitely Gideon's doing.'

Techno was in the bottom of an open valley with scattered logs and rocks ringed by woods up on the hills. Somewhere in the trees, four gunmen with hunting rifles were aiming towards Techno and reloading for their next shot. There was one more (presumed) hunter who, rather than sit up in the trees, charged down into the valley with a shotgun.

Techno had taken cover in a ditch behind a big rock. 'looks like only one is coming down, I'll deal with him first, then run into the trees and start picking the rest of them off.' With a plan set, Techno slipped into a small crevice to wait for his prey.

The shot gunner advanced slowly, checking his corners and using hand signals to communicate with his allies. The snipers knew that Techno hadn't left the divot he had dived into when they first started firing at him. Eventually, the shot gunner entered Techno's ditch and began to slowly clear it. Techno tensed and jumped out, knocking the barrel of the shotgun down. The shot gunner pulled the trigger, shooting pellets into his foot and the kick forced the butt of the shotgun into the shot gunners chin knocking him onto the ground.

Techno pulled out his axe and swung down on the dazed man, cutting into his chest. Much to Techno's surprise, he wasn't covered in blood and guts. Instead, where Techno had pierced seemed to be dust. Techno looked at his foe's face, and noticed his chin and lower mouth had been crushed into a fine powder.

"What the?" Techno gasped, poking the downed foe. After just barely grazing him, the shot gunner's face began to collapse. The shot gunner's skin felt less like flesh and more like clay. Techno noticed that there was a red orb in the shot gunner's chest and picked the orb up. The orb was inscribed with the words: Clay Golem, and some random letters that almost looked like someone at their computer bashed their keyboard: Kirnfh, ovzwvi lu gsv tilfk.

Techno stomped on the clay golems head and dropped the orb. Just as Techno was about to walk away, he noticed the dirt starting to swirl around the orb. Techno acted quickly and destroyed the orb. From the shattered orb rose crimson smoke that curled into a skull before floating away. The clay golem's body lost its cohesiveness, floating off into the air while looking as though an angry purple raisin had snapped its fingers.

The other golems, having lost contact with their leader, started closing in on the trench. Techno lit a piece of TNT and threw it up hill, waiting for it to detonate. When the TNT blew up Techno used the explosion as a distraction to make it into the tree cover.

Once he passed the tree line, Techno jumped up into branches to maintain the high ground. Techno hopped from branch to branch, moving towards where he saw one of the clay golems. Techno got above his prey, and dropped with his sword pulled out, cutting it in half and destroying the orb.

The three remaining hunters heard their brother's death and moved towards the position. Techno ran along the trees around the edge before dropping on another one. Two shots rang out towards Techno from the two survivors, and Techno threw himself into the trees.

Techno dodged between the trees while bullets ripped through the foliage. Techno's plan was to circle around, getting out of the line of fire while also getting close enough to finish the final duo. He was about to rush towards the hunters when Techno heard a pair of sword slashes and felt a gust of wind, almost as if some large bird had landed nearby. Techno ran over and saw that Phil had slain the last two, and the earth that had made up their body was floating away.

"Hey Phil."

"Hey Techno. Any idea who these clowns were?"

"Gideon's minions or something similar, I was told after you left Gideon had some plan involving me."

"Looks like it was as effective as can be expected."

"Yep."

"I've got a question, though."

"Go ahead."

"Why didn't you use an invis pot?"

"You see, there is an excellent tactical reason, that being I forgot I had them on me."

"Oh no, forgetnoblade!"

"Phil, if either of us has dementia, it'd be you. Mr. I was around before life, Mr. Back in my day, Mr. Oldza."

"I'm not that much older than you though."

"Alright, old man. Let's go check on Ghostbur, I think I got everything that Gideon sent out, but ya can't be too careful."

"Let's go home. Hop on." Phil said, pointing at his back.

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"Why are you so heavy?" Philza grunted out as his wings beat furiously to gain altitude.

"Oh no! Is the old man too weak to lift me?"

"I will drop you." Phil said, tilting to the left.

"Phil, no!" Techno begged.

"Too late!" Phil exclaimed, flipping completely upside and dropping Techno… directly into the fountain that had been added inside the compound. Techno came up sputtering water and was about to shoot some arrows at Phil when he saw something in his potato fields.

"What is tha-" Techno began to ask before an explosion rang out from the potato field, sending spuds soaring to the sky. "My potatoes, NOOOOOOOOOO!"

The tater targeting terrorist ran from his position by the house where he had taken cover, but unfortunately for him, Techno saw him. "YOU! You killed my potatoes, now I'm going to kill you!" Techno declared, swearing vengeance for his lost crop. Techno jumped out of the fountain and turned the sixth clay golem into dust with a single punch, but accidently sent some of the dust flying into the Nether portal.

The Nether portal began to shake before disgorging its contents into the overworld. From the portal came Ghasts, Blazes, and Wither Skeletons, all of whom began destroying the interior of the base. Phil had circled around after dropping off his passenger and saw the events unfolding below.

"I'll take the Ghasts and any Blazes that get high enough!" Philza yelled, pulling out his sword. "You deal with the ground walkers!"

Techno shot Phil a thumbs up before wading into the horde of Nether creatures. Phil held the air like a certain blood colored baron, flying higher the king of the sky, while on the ground Techno was surrounded from all sides. Techno used his enemies number's against them, and with every swipe of his sword would cut down two or three. The Nether portal eventually stopped shaking and sending out mobs, so Phil and Techno finished the majority before committing to a clean-up operation.

"That's the last of them." Phil said, flicking the molten liquid that passed for blood in Blazes. "Now we just have to repair the… Oh no."

"What is it Phil?" Techno asked, coming up beside his friend and looking in the same direction. "Oh for cryin' out loud!" The explosion had bored through the rock and into a cave below, one that happened to have a zombie spawner, meaning hundreds of zombies were sitting in the hole, waiting for just a few minutes until the sun would dip below the horizon. "Let's go break that spawner." Techno sighed, picking up his sword in hand and his pickaxe in the other.

"You get started; I'm going to repair the edge of the crater so none of them can get up."

Techno nodded in agreement with Phil's plan before running towards the edge of the artificial hole and leaping down into it, accompanied by Dream On by Aerosmith. Phil shook his head at his friend's antics before grabbing some dirt from his inventory and starting to repair the crater.

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"Hello, Gravity Falls!" Gideon yelled the next day, jumping through a banner with his face on it while his father, Bud Gleeful, played a show tune on a potable organ. Gideon was celebrating the grand closing of the Mystery Shack and some big, secret announcement. A majority of the town was in the audience and started clapping and cheering after Gideon's entrance.

"Gideon is the psychic-est." gushed Lazy Susan, proprietor of the local restaurant, Greasy's Diner. "He guessed the secret ingredient to my coffee omelette!"

"Somehow he knew about my horrifying secret birthmark!" the local creepy journalist, Toby Determined added.

"I love that child psychic so much!" 'Manly' Dan Corduroy yelled, squeezing Sherrif Blubs and Deputy Durland.

"You're chokin' me!" Blubs cried out from 'Manly' Dan's arms.

"Grandma, is that you?" Durland gasped out, turning purple.

At the back of the crowd, Soos and the Pines snuck in. They were decked out in black trench coats, with Soos and Mabel having fake facial hair attached and Mabel also wearing a pair of fake glasses.

"We're in." Dipper whispered.

"Just wanna say, don't know what we're doing here, but I am loving these fake mustaches." Mabel said, pulling on the ends of her fake mustache.

"If anyone asks, I'm not Soos." Soos said, pointing at his hat to which he had taped a piece of paper saying, 'not Soos'.

"Ladies and gentlemen! Today I am delighted to announce my new plans for the former Mystery Shack. I give you..." Gideon said, drumming up interest as his father rolled a covered cart up beside him. "Gideonland!" Gideon cried, pulling the brown tarp of the cart, revealing Disneyland knock-off themed after Gideon.

""What?!"" The Pines and Soos gasped.

"We are gonna turn this dirty ol' shack into three square miles of Gideon-tertainment." declared Gideon. "And introducin' our new mascot, Lil' Gideon Jr.!" Gideon said as Bud pulled off another tarp, revealing Waddles in a blue suit with a American flag pin and a white wig. "Boom, he's a pig!"

"Waddles! You monster!" Mabel screamed.

"All right, that's it!" Stan declared, pulling off his disguise. The Pines ran up to the stage, and Mabel kicked a cardboard cutout of Gideon over. "Listen up, people. Gideon's a fraud! This kid broke in and stole my property!"

"Arrest him, officers!" Mabel shouted.

"Yeah!" Dipper agreed.

"Such accusations! Mr. Pines, I recall you gave the property to me. Look, here's the deed right here!" Gideon said, pulling out the deed.

"Well that's all the proof I need to see." Blubs said.

"I love you, Lil' Gideon! Sing them funny songs!" Durland yelled.

"You stole my pig!" Mabel cried.

"You mean Gideon Jr.? I found him in the woods."

"You pignapped him!"

"You know what, I'll prove it. Daddy, let the pig down." Waddles was set on the ground by Bud and immediately tried to run to Mabel. Before Waddles could reach Mabel, however, Gideon pulled out a whistle and blew into it, forcing Waddles to Gideon. "See?"

Gideon snapped his fingers and two buff bouncers walk forward, one grabbing the Pines twins and the other grabbing Stan.

"Hey!" Mabel complained.

"Now get off my property, old man!" Gideon ordered, slapping a Li'l Gideon pin on him.

"I'll show you who's the old man!" Stan shouted before his hearing aid started giving off feedback. "Ow, my hearing aid! Ow!"

Gideon bids farewell to the Pines while they're being escorted off the premises by the bouncers. "Thanks for visiting Gideonland, friends! Don't come back, I don't care for y'all."

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Outside the chain link fence Gideon had installed around the shack, the Pines and Soos regrouped.

"Don't worry, guys. We'll get the shack back somehow." Dipper said.

Wendy walked up from the woods. "We better."

"Wendy!" Dipper exclaimed.

"If I can't work at the Shack, my dad's gonna force me to work upstate at my cousin's logging camp." Wendy explained.

"What? You're leaving town? But we need you here!" Dipper said, starting to panic.

"Yeah, especially Dipper, because of his giant crush on..." Soos started saying, before catching the glare Dipper was sending his direction. "You… -calyptus trees! Ha! The kid loves eucalyptus trees!" Soos said, nervously laughing before turning to himself and fist pumping. "Saved it!"

The bushes nearby started rustling before metal could be heard. "Oh man, guys. Don't look now." Wendy said, rolling her eyes.

Robbie Valentino came out of the foliage holding a boombox above his head. "Take me back, Wendy! My arms are too skinny to keep holding this boombox forever!"

Wendy clicked her bike helmet on. "I was never here." She said before she pedaled off.

Robbie began chasing after her. "Have you been getting my texts? Do I need to send you more texts? Wendy!"

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The Pines and Soos returned to Abuelita's house in defeat, a somber mood permeating the air, with Stan in the kitchen talking to Dipper and Mabel's parents while the rest of the group sat in the living room, heads downturned.

"This is not good. I cannot feed such a big family." Abuelita said from her recliner.

"Where will we stay, Dipper?" Mabel asked, with a suitcase stuffed to the breaking point of hand-knitted sweaters. "Where will I put all my sweaters?"

"And what's Stan gonna tell Mom and Dad?" Dipper continued, depressed.

"Awh, Mr. Pines will figure something out. He always does." Soos said encouragingly.

Stan was still in the kitchen explaining the situation to Mr. and Mrs. Pines. "Don't worry, your son and daughter are fine. Where're we staying? Uh, I put 'em up in this amazing four-star hotel!" Stan cringed at the sight of a cockroach getting electrocuted before walking over to the fridge to answer more questions. "What, uh, sure we got-" Stan started, picking up and swirling the only thing inside the fridge, an almost empty gallon of milk. "plenty to eat." Stan closed the fridge, and continued. "Relax, if I thought I couldn't take care of these kids, I'd send them back right away. Uh huh, you too."

Stan hang up just as Mabel shouted from the living room. "Grunkle Stan, can we order pizza?" Stan checked his pockets for cash, only to find them empty and sigh.

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After revealing his plans to transform the shack into a theme park and kicking the Pines family off of his property, Gideon Gleeful was reading the second journal whilst laughing before realizing his mascot, Waddles, who he pignapped, was attempting to escape.

Gideon blew a whistle and ordered the pig, "Back to your corner!" Waddles fled into the corner and curled up into a fetal position, shivering. Bud Gleeful walked into the room with the beautiful painting of a clown Stan had stolen weeks ago before putting it down as he turned to Gideon.

"I've been meaning to ask you boy. Shouldn't you be celebratin' Gideonland instead of stickin' your head in that there book all day?"

"Father, have I ever told you the true nature of this book?" Gideon asked, annoyed. "It was written many years ago by a brilliant unknown author who learned secrets too powerful for one man. He hid his journals where he thought no one would ever find 'em. Because he knew that if the journals were ever bought together, they would unleash a gateway to unimaginable power. Codes and maps have led me to believe the other book is buried somewhere on this very property, and I intend to find it!"

"So that's why you wanted the Mystery Shack." Bud realized

"That's right, father, it's time to begin the search. For the other journal!" Gideon declared, holding a shovel.

Outside the shack, a certain hill billy mechanic was building the center piece of Gideonland, a giant robot in the shape of Gideon Gleeful. The hill billy worked hard, being careful not to catch his long, bandaged beard on fire from the welding torch.

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Back at Abuelita's home, Mabel and Soos were doing their best to have a fun time, playing with a race track toy, but it couldn't lift the gloom from the rest of the house.

"Go red car!" Mabel cheered her chosen vehicle on.

"Go other red car!" Soos urged, hoping his car would pass Mabel's and surge into the lead.

"This would be a lot more fun with batteries." Dipper said, watching the two play pretend with the static toys. Soos grabbed his red car and gave it a push around the track, rear-ending Mabel's card.

Stan walked up sadly behind them and cleared his throat. "Kids, we've got to talk. Look I've been thinking and... I can't take care of you anymore. I don't have house o-or a job. The plan is, you're goin' home. Your bus leaves tomorrow, here are your tickets." Stan forced out, pulling two bus tickets from his suit and holding them out for the kids.

"But Grunkle Stan, you can't give up!" Dipper begged.

"Yeah dude. Look at these faces!" Soos said, bending down and hugging the Pines Twins. "Be cuter, Mabel! Your summer depends on it!" Soos panicked, rocking Mabel back and forth.

"Look, I lost, okay? The best thing is for you to be with your parents. I'm sorry, kids, Gideon won." Stan said, setting the tickets on an end table. "Summer's over." Stan, defeated, walked out the front door.

"Mr. Pines! Come back! RECONSIDER!" Soos yelled, running after Stan and slamming the door when he passed the threshold.

The twins stood in shock, with frowns marring their faces, until Dipper screwed his courage to the sticking point. "Mabel, that's enough. If Stan won't get our home back from Gideon, then we'll have to do it ourselves." Dipper declared, causing Mabel to smile.

"Gideon may have the upper hand, but we have one thing he doesn't." Mabel started, preparing to finish the sentence with Dipper.

Dipper pulled journal number three out of his jacket while saying, "The journal!" at the same time as Mabel pulled out her grappling hook and yelled, "A grappling hoo-" before realizing what Dipper was thinking. "oh. The journal... Journal!" Mabel said.

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The next day, the Pines Twins stealthily rested in the bushes surrounding the Mystery Shack. With Gideon's takeover, security had been increased, meaning they couldn't just jump the fence. Mabel had a squirrel on her head and Dipper had a pair of binoculars.

"Alright, the bus to take us out of Gravity Falls comes at sundown. If we wanna stay in town we've got to get past those guards, make it through the fence, and get Gideon to hand over that deed." Dipper said, while looking at each element with his binoculars as he mentioned them.

"Leave that to Mabel. Wa-chaw!" Mabel shouted, pulling out her grappling hook and firing it into a tree. The hook part of the grappling hook bounced off the tree, hitting Dipper in the head and knocking him over.

"Ah!" Dipper screamed as he fell over before grunting when the grappling hook fell on him once it ran out of resistance to gravity. "Now will you admit the grappling hook is useless?!" Dipper asked, holding the hook.

Mabel retracted the grappling hook. "Nope!"

"Okay, rather than a grappling hook, we could go see if Techno can help us." Dipper suggested.

"Yeah, Techno's great at fighting! He overthrew governments or something!" Mabel cheered.

"Wait, what? Where did that come from?" Dipper asked.

"I talked to his brother."

"Oh, cool. Alright, let's go!"

With a plan set, the twins circled the shack and began following the path towards Techno's compound, hoping the Piglin would help them with their minor issue of summer being about to be ruined.

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Fixing the crater had taken longer than either of the minecrafter's had expected. The zombies weren't a threat, but there were so many of them, and Techno didn't want to risk any escaping, so he had to clear every branch of the massive cave system. Meanwhile, on the surface, Philza was having trouble finding enough dirt to fix the crater without making another scar in the landscape.

They had been up most of the night, trying to contain the outbreak. It was a little after six in the morning when they took a break to sleep, Techno having blocked off all the exits he had found. When it was time to leave, Phil airlifted Techno out of the hill. At Noon, the two woke up and started eating a lunch of potatoes before they returned to the site of the potato tragedy.

"The caves should be cleared by this afternoon, how's the top going?" Techno asked.

Phil, who had just taken a bite, gave Techno the stink eye before swallowing and responding. "Top's going fine, I found where you stashed the dirt from your previous construction projects."

"Good. Well, back down I go." Techno said, staring to walk towards the crater. Ghostbur flew after Techno, as he had been helping Techno by flying between the wall to try and find new caves. Phil cleared his dishes before stretching out his wings and starting to gather dirt.

Before either group could get far, however, someone knocked on the front gate. Techno and Phil communicated using hand gestures, and Phil took off into the air to see who was knocking while Ghostbur floated down into the zombie hole and Techno ran towards the gate, ready to intercept if need be.

"Hello! Technoblade!" Mabel yelled over the gate.

Techno pulled the gate open, having gotten a thumbs up from Phil that it was safe before Phil had returned to working on the crater. "Helloooo."

"Techno, we need your help, Gideon has taken over the shack!" Dipper said, before being cut off by Mabel.

"He stole Waddles!"

"And if we don't get the shack back, we're being sent back home for the rest of the summer!" Dipper finished explaining.

"Gideon, huh? I'd love to help ya, but we're busy containing what he unleashed last night. I don't want another zombie apocalypse." Techno said.

"Wait, another one?" Dipper asked.

"Don't worry 'bout it."

"There must be something you can do, right?" Mabel begged.

"Sorry kiddo, I can't let my friend deal with the zombies alone. Tell ya what, what's your deadline?"

"Our bus leaves this evening." Dipper said.

"Alright, if we're free we'll come help you. Oh, one last thing. I have faith you'll figure out what to do; I have been trainin' you after all."

"Thanks Techno." Dipper said, already walking away. Mabel made a grumpy face before joining him.

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"Okay. What can we use to defeat Gideon?" Dipper asked, opening the journal as he and Mabel sat In the woods making a new plan. "Let's see... Barf fairy?"

"Yeah!" Mabel cheered.

"Nope." Dipper denied. "Butternut Squash with a Human Face and Emotions?"

"Yeah!"

"Nope."

Dipper turned the page, and Mabel leaned over. "Whoa, what's this?" she asked, pointing to a diagram of circles, squares, and other geometric shapes with numbers and letters in the margins.

"I've stared at this page for hours. It seems like a blueprint to build some kind of strange futuristic super-weapo-" Dipper started explaining.

"BORING! To defeat those guards we need some kind of army." Mabel interrupted.

"... Wait a minute! An army! Mabel, that's it! The gnomes!" Dipper cried, rapidly turning the pages until he found what he was looking for. Once he found it, Dipper held out the page on the gnomes.

"Uhh…" Mabel dragged out her interjection to show hesitation. "The gnomes?"

"Do you have a better idea?"

"GRAPP-"

"That isn't grappling hook?"

"No." Mabel pouted.

"Then this might be the only chance we've got."

"We could always wait for Techno." Mabel suggested, not trusting the gnomes.

"He's busy keeping the world from ending, and might not be finished by the time we have to leave. I know this is a Hail Mary play, but it's our only chance!"

"Alright. Let's go recruit an army!"

"Yeah!"

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"I think this is their hiding spot." Dipper said as he and Mabel walked into the fantastical part of the forest.

"I wonder what Gnomes do out here all alone in the forest?" Mabel wondered aloud. Dipper and Mabel continued forward, pushing through some underbrush before both screaming. They had screamed at the sight of Jeff the gnome sitting in a bath tub with squirrels running around him.

"Ya da dee, ya da da doo-" Jeff sang nonsense to himself before noticing the Pines Twins. "Aah!" the twins and Jeff stared at each other for a few seconds. "This... this is normal. This is normal for gnomes. Scrub scrub." Jeff said, scrubbing his armpit with a squirrel and forcing an awkward smile on his face. The Pines Twins looked at each other in disgust before Jeff brought their attention back to him.

"Well, well, well. Look who came crawlin' back." Jeff said before whispering in aside to one of the squirrels. "Take five, Chris." Chris the squirrel, who was previously being used as a sponge, jumped out of the tub and ran up a tree. "You guys keep doin' what you're doin'." Jeff told the rest of the squirrels, and they started circling him again. "So, changed your mind about marryin' me, did you, Mabel?" Jeff asked, leaning backwards against the wall of the tub.

"Ew, hardly. We need your help. And seriously, ew!" Mabel said in disgust.

"You want our help? After you left me at the altar? No dice!" Jeff declared.

"What if we were able to get you a new queen? One even more beautiful than me." Mabel asked, and Dipper nodded his head beside her.

"Her name's Gideon, and she has lovely white hair." Dipper added while Mabel waggled her eyebrows.

"Who-hoh. Mature woman, huh? Hey Shmebulock, get my cologne!" Jeff said.

Shmebulock hopped out from behind a tree, holding Jeff's cologne. "Shmebulock!"

"Is Shmebulock all you can say?" Jeff asked, concerned.

"Shmebulock..." Shmebulock nodded sadly.

"It's a deal!" Jeff said, shaking Dipper's hand.

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"Where are you, Journal?" Gideon asked himself, looking at the page in journal 2 titled possible hiding spots before closing the journal and picking up a shovel. "Where are you!" He shouted as he shoved his shovel into the ground.

Bud gleeful walked over to Gideon from the shack. "Boy, I hate to interrupt you, but you have some guests." Bud said apologetically, pointing towards the fence on the parking lot.

"What?" Gideon demanded in shock. Gideon walked over to where his father was pointing and saw the Pines Twins.

"Give us the deed to the shack, Gideon, or else." Dipper ordered.

"Am I supposed to say, 'Or else what?'" Gideon asked sarcastically, gesturing to his two hired goons,a nd barely holding back laughter.

"Yes, you are supposed to say that." Mabel said, before yelling. "Now!"

The two massive guards supporting Gideon eyes widened comically, and they fell to the ground with gnomes sticking out of their back. Gideon gasped, and the gnomes broke down part of the fence using a buck's antlers. The gnomes used the opening to flood their bareback hare back cavalry into the yard. Gideon was surrounded by an army of over 160 gnomes, (I counted 164 in the overhead shot), a majority of which being armed with a thyrsus, an Ancient Greek weapon consisting of a spear topped with a pinecone, generally associated with the Greek god Dionysus. Gideon's minions were tied up, and the Pines Twins marched up to Gideon.

"You're surrounded by an unstoppable gnome army, now give us back our deed and get off our property!" Dipper ordered.

"And let the marriage ceremony begin!" Jeff cheered from the antlers of the buck the gnomes were using as both cavalry and a battering ram.

Gideon sighed. 'Very well. I suppose this deed belongs to-" Gideon started, reaching into his suit. Suddenly, the silence was ripped apart by a sharp shrill from the whistle Gideon grabbed from his suit. The gnomes fell to their knees, covering their ears. "Ha! What do you know! Works on gnomes too!" Gideon said before blowing the whistle again.

"Stop! We'll do anything! How can we serve you your majesty!" Jeff begged, before bowing repeatedly. "The most beautiful girl we've ever seen!"

"I am not a girl!" Gideon shouted, his voice cracking and making him sound like a girl.

"Really? But your skin is so soft." Jeff asked, taking and then rubbing Gideon's hand. "Do you moisturize or-"

"Subdue them!" Gideon interrupted, pointing at the twins. The gnomes, eager to prove their worth so they would never hear the dreaded whistle again, began crawling over the Pines Twins, making it impossible for them to escape. "I have to admit, kids, I am impressed by your creativity! How did you ever..." Gideon started asking, before Dipper interrupted after the first sentence.

"Let go!" Dipper yelled at the gnomes, struggling in vain against the tens of tiny hands. Unfortunatly, in his struggles, journal three was knocked to the ground. "Oh no!"

"No! Could it be? Is it?" Gideon asked himself in shock, bending towards the journal. Gideon picked up the journal with a cackle, flipping through the pages. "Of course! It all makes sense! The one place I'd never think to look! You had it the whole time! And to think I actually considered you a threat!" Gideon taunted, punctuating his point with a flick to Dipper's nose.

"No! Give it back!" Dipper cried, struggling in vain against the gnomes grasp.

"Every victory you had was because of your precious book!" Gideon continued to taunt, patting the book.

"Give it back or I'll-" Dipper started to threaten, pulling against the gnomes.

"Or you'll what, boy? You'll what? Huh? Huh? No muscles. No brains. Face it! You're nothin' without this! Bye bye forever, y'all." Gideon said, waving goodbye before blowing into his whistle and causing the gnomes to stampede away carrying Dipper and Mabel.

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The gnomes dropped Dipper and Mabel off on the side of a path and continued to scamper past. Dipper sat on a rock distressed while Mabel paced next to him.

"Next time, do your own dirty work!" Jeff told the twins before gesturing to his squirrels. "Come on boys!"he said as he ran off into the woods.

Dipper sighed, his head suddenly heavy. "Well, that's it. Guess the bus should be here soon."

"What?" Mabel asked in shock, stopping her pacing to look at her brother. "Dipper, don't give up! You always have a plan!" she encouraged as she crouched next to Dipper.

"No! The journal always has the plan! Think about it, Mabel, Gideon was right. The only courageous or cool things I've ever done have been because of that journal. Without it, I can't help you, or Stan, or anyone." Dipper said in defeat.

"There's gotta be something we can do?" Mabel said, inflecting the end like a question, hoping to jog her brothers brain into making a plan. Gideon's claims, however, had discouraged Dipper so much he felt completely defeated.

"What can we do?" Dipper asked despairingly. "Techno's busy, and without the journal we can't come up with any new plans."

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Dipper and Mabel boarded Speedy Beaver bus 52 departing Gravity Falls with their luggage and trudged to the back of the bus. They pressed their faces against the back window of the bus, seeing Grunkle Stan with a slumped posture and a long face.

"Sorry kids, it's for the best." Stan said, turning away as the bus pulled away. Wendy waved goodbye forlornly while Candy and Grenda hugged each other for comfort. Stan turned back to face the twins as they reached the city limits, his dejection obvious from his body language.

The twins kept looking back into Gravity Falls for several minutes. "I can't believe this is happening." Dipper said.

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After sending the twins on their way, Stan returned to Abuelita's house and changed from his suit into a tank top and his underwear. Abuelita was vacuuming the current while Stan sat on the couch, trying to distract himself with the TV.

"Well Stan, this is it. Rock bottom. No friends, no family, stuck watching infomercials for whatever that is..." Stan said to himself with his head in his hands.

"Are you sick of piles of owls constantly blocking your drive way?" the infomercial commenter Bobby Renzobi asked. "Well then you gotta get owl trowel!"

"How did you do it, kid? Why are you always one step ahead?" Stan asked himself as he inspected the Gideon pin (it's his face.). "Maybe he really is psychic after al-AH! My hearing aid!" Stan screamed, forming a fist around the pin and clutching his ear with his free hand. "What keeps causing that?" Stan asked to no one in particular before coming to a realization. "Wait a minute! That's it! I know Gideon's weakness!" Stan exclaimed, shooting to his feet.

Abuelita walked into the living room from the kitchen with tea. "Would Mr. Pines like a-" she started to offer before being interrupted by Stan kissing her like the one photo off the nurse and sailor from the end of world war 2 before Stan ran out the front door. Abuelita stood in shock for a few seconds before turning around and walking back towards the kitchen. "I go vacuum my face."

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The Speedy Beaver crossed a bridge in front of a waterfall 10 miles from the town's outer limits. Inside the bus Mabel had pulled her sweater down over her legs and was looking at the floor of the bus while Dipper stared out the window, starring melancholily at the passing landscape. Dipper saw the water tower pass by, and Mabel decided to try and cheer him up.

"Hey, Dipper." Mabel said, lifting her head, looking at her twin, and giving a fragile smile. "Wanna play bus seat treasure hunt?"

"I'm not in the mood."

"Aw, c'mon!" Mabel said, lifting the seat and trying to get Dipper's mind off what had just happened. "We got Canadian coin, gum that's shaped like Ronald Reagan's head, ooh! Miscellaneous fluid stain?"

"Giant robot!" Dipper yelled.

"Yeah, giant robot... Wait, what?" Mabel agreed before realizing what Dipper said.

"Look!" Dipper shouted, his voice cracking slightly, pointing out the back of the bus. Mabel slammed the seat back down, looking where Dipper was pointing.

A giant robot shaped like Gideon was chasing the bus while tearing through trees and power lines. "Halt! I command you to halt!" The bot ordered with Gideon's voice. Dipper and Mabel screamed at the sight of the metal monstrosity before running to get the bus drivers help.

"Mr. Bus driver! There is a giant Gideon bot coming towards us!" Mabel yelled as she and Dipper ran down the center aisle.

"Oh hey, dudes!" Soos greeted, as he had to take up a lot of part-time jobs once the shack closed.

""Soos!"" the Pines Twins cheered.

"Don't worry guys. I've been a part-time bus driver for at least 40 minutes. One of these is probably a clutch" Soos reassured them, pulling at random levers until the bus went into a higher gear. "Hang on, dudes!" Soos threw the bus back and forth to dodge the Gideon bot's arms.

"Soos, look out!" Mabel yelled as the bot blocked the road. Soos threw to bus onto an alternative route, up a closed road. As the bus barreled through the road closed sign and up the winding mountain road, the passengers screamed. The Gideon bot began to climb after them.

"He already won! What does he want from us?" Dipper asked desperately.

Inside the Gideon bot, Gideon was controlling it with a omni-directional treadmill and a motion capture suit. The TV McGucket had jury-rigged into a H.U.D. showed the Speedy Beaver well within Gideons grasp. "I got you in my sights!" he said to himself, panting slightly from controlling the Gideon bot.

The bus reached the top of the mountain. "Soos, cliff!" Dipper yelled as everyone inside the bus began screaming. The bus screeched to a halt, turning in an attempt to lose speed, with its back two tires hanging off the cliff. Because the bus is rear-wheel drive only, it was stuck as the massive Gideon bot stomped its way up to it. Gideon ripped the roof of the bus off, depositing the bus onto stable ground, but only Soos was inside.

"Okay. What's closest to our present situation? Raccoon in the engine or angry grandparent won't leave bus?" Soos asked himself, looking through the bus emergency manual. "Proba-probably the second one."

Gideon turned around, looking for the Pines Twins and saw them running across the old railway bridge further down the cliff. Gideon jumped down, doing the superhero landing as Dipper and Mabel realized that both sides of the bridge were closed tunnels. The kinetic shock from the giant bot landing knocked the twins onto their butts and sent wooden boards flying off into the valley below.

"Tell me! Where is Journal #1?!" Gideon ordered, his robot's mechanical mouth miming his words.

""Journal #1?"" The twins asked in confusion, looking back and forth between each other and Gideon.

"Don't play games with me, boy!" Gideon yelled, punching the cliff the Pines were hiding under and sending rocks tumbling down on them. Stones fell around the twins and one was about to hit Mabel but Dipper pulled her out of the way just in time.

"I don't know what you're talking about! You took the only journal I ever had!" Dipper yelled, standing in front of Mabel. "What do you even want with these journals anyway?"

Gideon reached down and picked up the twins. They tried to keep hold of each other, but were pulled apart. Mabel tried to pull herself out off Gideon's hold and Dipper repeatedly punched Gideon's iron fist. "Let go of her!" Dipper yelled.

Gideon laughed. "you still think you're some kind of hero?" he asked as he turned around and threw Dipper over the robots shoulder. Dipper landed roughly on the cliff on the other side from the bus, rubbing his head and with a bloody nose. "Once I find the final journal I'll rule this town!" Gideon said, before lifting Mabel up to be more level with his head. "With you as my queen! Ah ha ha ha!"

"Dipper! Help me! HELP!" Mabel cried out in desperation.

Dipper stood at the edge of the cliff, moving forward slightly before stepping away from the cliff as it crumbled a small amount. Gideon's words echoed in his head, driving Dipper back into the trees. "Face it kid, you're nothing without that journal. How you gonna fight back? No muscles. No brains. What are you gonna do, huh? What are you gonna do!" Dipper was on the brink of tears as he walked sadly into the woods before another voice echoed in his mind.

"I have faith you'll figure out what to do; I have been trainin' you after all." Techno's voice stated confidently, supporting Dipper. With this slight encouragement, Dipper shook off Gideon's disparagement and ran towards the cliff, leaping into the unknown and through the Gideon bot's eye. Dipper tackled Gideon, knocking him over and the robot followed.

"Let go of my sister!" Dipper ordered, punching Gideon.

"Never! I finally won this time!" Gideon screamed, attempting to punch Dipper but being dodged. This repeated for a few seconds, with Dipper scoring a hit or two before dodging or catching Gideon's attacks. Eventually, Gideon grew so irate he threw himself at Dipper. Dipper was unable to stop the flabby flechette due to Gideon's weight and was knocked to the ground, offering Gideon the first few hits in the fight.

Dipper recentered himself, hoping to his feet and catching Gideon's next punch. Gideon attempted to struggle his way out, but was unable to escape Dipper's grasp before Dipper began to punch Gideon using Gideon's own fist. Gideon began to get truly desperate when Dipper used Gideon's fist to throw one final punch. With the punch, the robots head began to spin, sending Gideon flying into the wall further destabilizing it.

"Careful in there!" Mabel yelled up to the two inside the robot, clutching onto the thumb of the Gideon bot so she didn't go flying off.

After just a few seconds, the robot fell of the bridge and plummeted down into the valley. "Dudes! Nooooooooooo!" Soos screamed from next to the bus where he had been watching. Mabel searched frantically for her brother as she slipped from the thumb. She saw him, but he was too far away for her to get to him. With tears in her eyes, Mabel pulled out her grappling hook and shot it up to slow her fall.

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Techno had cleared most of the zombies by the afternoon, with one more cave to clear. He took a break and called out to Phil. Phil had filled up the top, leaving only a small hole with a rope ladder leading down into the crater.

"Yo, Phil, I'm almost done down here."

"Cool. Do you want my help?"

"I don't know, there might be a baby zombie down here… we shouldn't risk it."

Phil started to grow irate. "Listen here you little shit, tha-" But Techno interrupted.

"Oh no, Oldza is getting grumpy."

"That's it." Phil declared as he dived down into the crater. Techno screamed and ran into the cave as Phil chased him, the two of them beating up zombies as they passed. "Get over here, Techno!"

"NO! You'll next catch me!" Techno screamed, slaying zombies left and right.

"You can't escape me forever, Techno!" Phil screamed.

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After the zombies were destroyed, and Phil was calmed down, he and Techno sat on their porch, looking towards what had been, earlier that day, a massive crater.

"It's strange to think earlier today there was hundreds of zombies under our house." Phil said.

"Yeah, there were lots of children, it's a good thing you repaired the top of the crater." Techno stated calmly before being clocked in the head by a potato Phil threw at him. "Ow."

"Shut up, kid. We gotta go help those kids you adopted."

"I didn't adopt them, that is slander."

"idk man, seems kinda sus."

Techno sighed at his friends teasing, knowing chat was going to use this as proof like Wilbur being born from a fridge. "yeah, let's go help those kids… did you feel that?"

"Yeah I did, do you think it has something to do with them?" Phil asked as he ad Techno felt the ground shake as if a several ton robot was chasing after something.

"Probably. Let's go." Techno said, hopping on Philza. Philza grunted at the weight but took off and flew, following the source of the shacking. "There it is!" Techno yelled over the screaming of the air. "Looks like a giant Gideon walker."

"I wonder how much redstone it took?" Phil asked before realizing the Gideon bot had jumped down onto a fragile bridge, causing the bridge to shake. Phil was circling lower and lower to drop Techno directly on top of Gideon's big head when the bot began to fight itself. "ah shit. Techno, this is your stop!" Phil said.

"What do you me-AAAHH!" Techno started to ask before being pushed of Phil's back and starting to plummet before pulling of a water bucket clutch, coincidently landing next to Soos.

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Oh, hey dude, where did you come from?" Soos asked. Techno looked at Soos with an unreadable expression before answering.

"I just thought I'd drop in."

Back with Phil, he saw the Gidoen tumble off the bridge and Phil dived towards the robots corpse. Phil's enhanced vision easily picked out that Mabel and Dipper were in trouble, that Mabel had a grappling hook, and Dipper was too far away for her to help. Phil flew even faster, hoping to catch Dipper before he hit the ground.

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The Gideon bot hit the ground and exploded in a bright, blue orb. The light reached from one end of the valley to the other, drawing the attention of the townsfolk. The Gideon bot had lost one of its arms and had exposed wiring everywhere, its limbs twitching like a dying beast. Mabel descended on her grappling hook line morosely, looking around for where her brother had landed.

The moment she touched the ground, she ran towards where she last saw her brother, pulling sheets of metal away frantically. She was so focused on finding her brother she didn't hear a beating of wings or feel a buffet of wind. Mabel tried to keep her vision clear, to find any hint of her brother, but her eyes began to gloss over with tears.

"Dipper!? Dipper, where are you?!" Mabel screamed through her tears. "Dipper! Are you ok?! Dipper!" Mabel felt something warm rest against her back and try to pull her away, but she wasn't having any of it, pushing the person away. "Dipper! Where are you!? Please, answer me!"

"Mabel, it's okay, I'm right here." The body trying to pull her away from the destruction said. Mabel gasped and turned around to see Dipper, alive and smiling, pulling her away from the wreckage. Mabel screamed and jumped onto her brother, hugging him like a baby sloth while bawling.

"Dipper! I thought you were gone! And I…I… it was my fault! I wasn't close enough to save you! You saved me from Gideon, and I was going to let you fall to your death!" Mabel choked out through her tears, holding Dipper in a titanium grip.

"Mabel, shh sh shh. It wasn't your fault, I'm fine!" Dipper comforted, returning Mabel's hug.

"But what if you weren't? Then you would be gone, a-and it'd be my fault. It's always my fault! You're always getting hurt to help me! Maybe I'm just a bad, worthless sister."

"No, don't say that! Mabel, you're a great sister! It's not your fault, you aren't forcing me to help me, I'm doing it because I love you!"

"But I always make you give up on what you want to do!"

"Mabel, that's just the near-death experience talking, you don't always make me give up on my things. Besides, I like protecting my family. I promise, I'm fine."

Mabel sniffed, her tears tapering off. "You mean it?"

"I mean it."

Mabel backed away from the hug, rubbing her eyes clear. "Awkward sibling hug?"

"Awkward sibling hug." Dipper said, hugging Mabel before they both patted each other on the back. ""Pat, pat.""

"Hey Dipper, how did you survive?" Mabel asked shakily.

"That would be because I caught him." A new voice calmly stated with a British accent. Mabel looked at the source of the voice and saw a man wearing a black jacket over a green robe and a striped green and white hat on his head. In addition, this man had a set of massive midnight black wings.

"Thank you so much for saving my broski!" Mabel exclaimed, smiling at the stranger.

"Thanks for saving me, but uh… who are you?" Dipper asked the winged man.

"I'm Philza. I'm one of Techno's friends."

"Wait, were you the one in that cave that Techno was looking for?" Mabel asked.

"Yep. I was stuck down there for around thirty years."

"Thirty years… wait, wait, did you know anyone who had a journal with a six fingered hand on the front? The cover was red like… that one right there. Hey look, my journal!" Dipper said, bending down to grab his journal. As Dipper started to stand back up, police sirens were heard and the light of the police cars began to flash over them.

"Ah crap, I'll be back kiddos, I just can't be seen by the feds." Phil said, leaping into the air and flying low to the ground. As the police car pulled up to the destroyed Gideon bot, it was quickly joined by a large majority of the townsfolk asking what was going on.

Gideon pulled himself out of the wreckage, pulling the broken remnants of his mo-cap suit off while groaning.

"Gideon!" Deputy Durland cried in worry as he and Sherriff Blubs ran towards Gideon. "Oh, good heavens! What on earth happened here?" Durland asked as he helped Gideon down from the head of the Gideon bot.

"It was the Pines twins! They tried to attack me and blew up my statue with dynamite! Arrest 'em!" Gideon claimed, hamming up his lies to the sheriffs.

""What?"" Dipper and Mabel asked, shocked.

"Officers, he's lying!" Dipper said.

"Sorry kids, but we trust Gideon." Blubs said as Gideon walked towards the twins with an evil smile on his face. "And nothing short of a miracle could ever change our-" Blubs started before being interrupted.

Stan came screaming into the crowd, in both meanings of the word, in his 1965 El Diablo. "Wait! Wait! Stop everything! I've got somethin' to say!" Stan yelled, leaning out of the car's window still wearing his underwear and white tank top.

"Not this guy again." Blubs complained.

"Just wait! Look!" Stan yelled, pushing his way through the crowd. "You guys all think Gideon is so perfect and honest," "Stan said, before mocking Gideon. "Oh! I could never tell a lie! I'm Gideon!"

"He's more honest than you!" Blubs fired back.

"Yeah! And he's psychic too!" Durland said.

"How's this for psychic? Bam!" Stan asked, kicking a panel off the Gideon bot. behind the Gideon bot, hundreds of screens showed people all over the town revealing their secrets, the very same secrets Gideon had used as proof of his psychic ability. "Take a good look!" Stan said, pointing to the screens.

"Wait a minute, is that ME?" Lazy Susan asked, looking at a recording of herself revealing the secret ingredient of her coffee omelet. "The secret ingredient to my coffee omelet is coffee!" the recording of Lazy Susan said happily.

"And me!" Toby Determined said, pointing to a recording of him at the doctor's office.

"I can verify that that birthmark is indeed disgusting." The doctor confirmed in the recording.

"Hooray!" Recorded Toby Determined cheered.

The crowd began finding themselves on the TV's as Stan held up a Gideon pin. "That's right, these pins are hidden cameras! And my hearing aid was picking up the feedback! Who's the fraud now?" asked Stan, moving the pin back and forth, showing one of the screens following it before he crushed the pin. The townsfolk threw their pins to the ground before walking towards Gideon.

"Gideon, we gave you our trust." Durland said sadly.

"You LIED to us!" Manly Dan said, his sadness from the betrayal quickly turning to anger.

"Please, I... It's not what it looks like..." Gideon stammered, backing away from the irate crowd whilst trying to think of some excuse. "What are you gonna do with me?" Gideon asked in fear as he realized there was no way of explaining it away.

"Tyler?" Durland asked Tyler Cutebiker.

Tyler couldn't bear to look at Gideon while he said his usual line. "Get 'im, Get 'im. Tyler choked out, forcing down tears.

"Lil' Gideon, you are under arrest for conspiracy, fraud, and breaking our hearts." Blubs said, wiping his tears. "Durland, the tiny handcuffs."

"Wha!?" Gideon asked as he was cuffed. "No!" Mabel and Dipper smiled at each other as Gideon was led to the back of the patrol car.

"Just one more thing." Stan said, picking Gideon up and shaking him until all of Gideon's stuff was strewn about on the floor.

"Let go of me! Ow! Ow! Ow!" Gideon protested.

"I believe this belongs to me." Stan said as he picked up the deed to the shack and one other, non-important item that he hid behind the deed. Stan smiled as the local news took pictures of him.

"No! No! Watch the hair!" protested Gideon as he was pushed into the patrol car. "You can't do this to me! Y'all are sheep! You need me! I'll be back! You'll hear from my lawyers!" Gideon yelled as he was driven off to jail.

"There you have it. Local hero Stanford Pines has just exposed Li'l Gideon as a fraud. Anything you have to say to the town, Stanford?" Shandra Jimenez asked, offering Stan the microphone as he held Mabel on his shoulders and leaned on Dipper.

"The Mystery Shack is back, baby!" Stan declared with a huge smile as Dipper and Mabel celebrated.

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Mabel laughed as she played with her pig while, in the fireplace, Gideon's suit and wig were burned. The next day, Dipper, Mabel, Soos, Wendy, and Waddles were up repairing the roof when the S in shack fell off again, making the sign say Mystery Hack once again.

"Ahaha! Oh, thank you, thank you!" Stan said, cashiering and signing things in the gift shop while Soos read a newspaper who's headline story was Li'l Gideon in the Big House. Up in the attic, the twins were moving back in.

"Meow, meow, meow, meow, meow, meow." Mabel meowed to herself, putting up her cat posters before the door creaked. "Hey, Grunkle Stan!" She greeted with a big smile.

"Uh, you kiddos settlin' back in okay?" Stan asked, leaning through the doorway before walking into the room fully.

"Yep! All of my favorite moldy spots on the ceiling are still there! Even you, Daryl." Mabel said, pointing to Daryl.

"Hey, Grunkle Stan." Dipper said holding Journal 3, getting his Grunkle's attention. "me and Mabel have been talking, And I think there's something we should finally tell you. This is a journal I found in the woods." Dipper said, handing Stan the journal and Stan began to flip through it. "It talks about all the crazy stuff that goes on in Gravity Falls. Gideon nearly destroyed the whole town trying to find it. I don't know what it means, or who wrote it. But, after all we've been through, maybe you should finally know about it."

"I'm glad you showed me this, Dipper." Stan said seriously, closing the journal before bursting into laughter. "Now I know where you've been getting it all from! Spookums and monsters. This kooky book has been filling your head with crazy conspiracies!"

"But it's all real!" Dipper protested.

"Haha. You gotta quit readin' this fantasy nonsense for your own good. Although some of these would make great attractions! Can't come up with this stuff! Mind if I borrow this?" Stan asked as he was already on his way out the door.

"Wait, no! Grunkle Stan!" Dipper said, starting to panic.

"' Magic book'" Stan laughed. "Ridiculous!"

"Stan, I need it!" Dipper cried as Stan exited his field of view.

"Dipper, you don't need that book! Don't you see? On your own you defeated a giant robot with nothing but your bare hands! You're a hero whether you've got that journal or not!" Mabel encouraged.

"Whoa. Thanks, Mabel." Dipper said, smiling. "I still want it back though."

"I'm sure you'll get it back. What would a boring old man like Stan want with that book anyway?" Mabel asked sarcastically before both twins were sprayed with streams of water, causing the twins to scream in shock.

"Soos-ed!" Soos yelled, standing up from a box he had used to infiltrate the room holding two squirt guns. Dipper and Mabel both started laughing as they chased Soos around the shack.

"Soos, get back here!" Mabel yelled as she took the stairs three at a time.

"Never!" Soos yelled back.

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Night had descended on the valley of Gravity Falls again, and Dipper and Mabel rested peacefully in the attic, sleeping calmly now that Gideon had been defeated. Meanwhile, in the gift shop, Stan was up to something. He walked up to the vending machine and punched in the code AB1C3, causing the vending machine to swing away from the wall, revealing a secret tunnel. Stan walked into the passage, pulling the vending machine closed behind him.

Stan walked down a set of stairs to an old elevator, descending two stories into a room filled with future-y techno gizmos that looked dated, like old computers from the early 1980's. Stan sat down at a desk that had a picture of the twins being goofy and opened a sliding panel, revealing several books. Stan pulled one out in particular.

"After all these years. Finally, I have them all." Stan said, revealing his possession of all three journals. He organized the journals so that a complex machine was formed from a double page picture with one set from each journal. Stan flipped some switches, confirming the order with the journals, lighting up an inverted triangle with an empty circle in the center in the massive open area next to the control area.

"It's working!" Stan exclaimed in shock, rushing out of his chair and through the door into the next room. Stan forced a lever to flip, causing the triangle to shoot out cyan lightning before stabilizing into a solid light blue glow. "Here we go."

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Inside a mind used to violence, there were three great locks, each so complicated that it would take hundreds of years to crack even one. Suddenly, one of the locks cracked, the chain wrapping around an ominous door disintegrating into rust. The lock fell to the ground, and out from the rubble crawled a messenger.

Deusblade: My liege is awakening. Soon, blood will flow like water and the sane will be considered insane!"

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Completed 6/28/2023, Words: 10,175, Written using a pirated copy of Microsoft Word 2007.

AN2: Well, that's the end of season 1, I hope you enjoyed. If you see any typo's please point them out as I am finishing this up at almost two in the morning and am sleepy.

I would like to offer my most sincere of thank you's to everyone who's read this, from those who were here from the very beginning to those just joining us, and those reading in the future.

This chapter was almost twice the length of the previous longest chapter, and a lot happened! Plot threads were closed off, cliff hangers ended, and new plot hooks deployed to catch some unsuspecting fish, (that's you guys). The next update won't be an actual chapter, I'm going to talk about my experiences with Tehcno and my memories of him, but after that, Season 2 baby! I have a lot planned, and cannot wait to write it.

If anyone knows any groups making fan-episodes of Gravity Falls or any fan content at all, hit me up. I would love to add my voice or writing to a fan continuation of Gravity falls, the only bad thing is I can't draw.

Fanfiction request: I would like Gravity Falls reacts to Gravity Falls, where the characters watch the show. I would also like the timestuck au, so if y'all know any good ones, please send me the link.