Waddles survived…physically at least, psychologically? He stayed shaken for half an hour by the experience. Soos gently carried the trembling animal away to the Shack, followed by the others, except the young Pines and Membrane after making sure Waddles would survive.(which involved running around the shack with hands up in hope of catching the swine like running ostriches which ended in Waddles falling on Stan's hands causing its ass to hit his face to his disgruntlement and whine, it was pretty funny) stayed around to ensure there would not be a repeat performance.

The girl Pines with hands on her hips was glaring and at a sheepish Sir unit with his hands locked from the back.

"Bad Robot! Bad! You don't eat someone's pet and launched them up!" She lectured him harshly while Gir made the face of an embarrassed dog that got caught by his owner which led to him begin making tears in his eyes with his mouth fluctuating like he was on the verge of crying which caught Mabel off guard.

"What, no way!" She shook her head.

The blue eyes intensified.

"Not working! Not working at all!" Despite what she said, her tone said otherwise as she tried to look away.

One drop of tear came down.

"Nuh hu!" She shook her hands, she gave a careful glance and seeing Robot on the verge of crying finally broke her wall.

"Alright! I won't punish you, but you are banned from playing with Waddles!"

Gir immediately from crying went cheerful like it was nothing "Okie dokie!" The Sir Unit then walked away happily back to the Shack.

Gaz wasn't impressed by seeing this "Seriously? You got offed by Gir's crocodile tears?"

"The eyes have power!" Mabel objected.

"For weaklings, yes."

The Pines girl squawked in offence and spat acid "Oh! Go to heck, purple dyed bim!"

"It's NATURAL Beverly Hills Brat!" The purple Membrane snarled. By this point both girls were closer to each other and any moment away from going physical.

"DEMON SPAWNED SHE DEVIL!" Mabel snarled with frowns like thunder.

"STINK PIG LOVING BIMBO!" Gaz growled with her teeths like a snarling tiger.

The Membrane and Pines boy glanced nervously and awkwardly, seeing their sisters at each other's throats not knowing what to do to stop them from tearing each other like feral cats. They stayed that way until they finally reacted.

"Pheg!"

"Pah!"

The glaring Membrane and Pines respectively said and seized their aggressive posture, stopped their glaring contest and went away.

Dib in bewilderment uttered. "What…just happened?"

Dipper who held his own Pine Tree sigil journal giving him his answer "It's a female mystery, don't try to understand it." He then continued drawing a painting of Zim with menacing teeths and bug eyes on 4 of his spider bot legs. Dib took notice of that.

"What's that?"

"It's my journal of all things weird I learned off, that and what I learned from Great Uncle Ford."

"Can I give it a look?

"Sure thing."

The Membrane boy, after borrowing the journal fastly switches pages with a thirst for knowledge, analysing anything his eyes could see and incredulous of things he saw. Gnomes were real! Unicorns are real and huge jerks! There is an entity called Hide Behind

that pranks on others! There is a small civilization in the Mini Golf place!?! And why are the Minitaurs called 'Manotaurs'? There was just so much he wanted to read and learn, but chose to gently give it back to its author like he was giving a religious text.

"Incredible…. You did all this by yourself!?" He in awe glanced at his new and only best friend who humbly rejected.

"Not by me, I had my sister, great uncles and my friends to-

He was cut short before he could finish "I met paranormal creatures before and consider myself a professional, but YOU, make my life's work look like an utter joke!" Dib babbled in amazement.

Dipper thought he was taking offense "I'm sorry if I-"

He read the situation mistakenly as the big headed boy once again cut him off "Dude! Why didn't you publish your findings by now!? You have a gold mine of supernatural knowledge!"

The Pines boy shrugged "Is not like anyone would believe it, at best they would think of it as some fun mockumentary."

Dib wanted to reject that notion, before recalling how much he was made fun of, and left being alone for having an interest in esoteric things as he hummed "Mhmmm, I should make Journal myself, why didn't I think of that before!?" He slapped himself "I would get a Nobel prize for it!"

"I'm sure it would sell out like wildfire." Gaz blandly commented in a dried voice.

"Oh! If only Skool and my father saw my true potential!" The Membrane boy moaned dramatically which made the Membrane girl roll her eyes, the Pines noted that Dib had a flavor for dramatics like the Alien Invader.

"Skool?" Mabel inquired about that pronunciation.

"It is the name of the school I have back home." The Paranormal investigator elaborated.

She was dumbfounded by such an odd choice of name so as Dipper who said "Skool? Your School is called Skool but with k?"

Gaz with a sigh responded "Don't ask us why it is, that school our dad sent us to is freaking weird."

Dib continued where his sister left "How it never got closed by health care inspectors or any of the standards for that matter is worth investigating." And then changed the topic.

"Anyway you said there you leaned some from your great uncle?" He asked Dipper.

"Yes, in fact his journals were the ones that inspired me in making my own journal."

"Until we decided to throw them into the Bottomless Pit." Mabel answered not knowing she was gonna receive an intense outbursts reaction from Dib for that.

Dib in utter outrage of what he just heard cried out and leaned close "YOU THREW THEM OFF A CLIFF!?!?"

The twins flinched at the sudden change of volume.

"Oh great, he's in a nerd rage mood." Gaz asserted in annoyance.

Dipper corrected him "It wasn't a cliff, it was a Bottomless Pit-

Dib grabbed both of his shoulders and got too close to his face with intensity "But WHYYYYY!?!?" The fact that such treasure of paranormal knowledge got lost forever intentionally has made the truth seeker inside him rage on.

Mabel came in to save her brother from the explanation "Those books caused a lot of trouble and Grunkle Ford didn't have the heart to burn his own work, so we just tossed them to wherever the Bottomless Pit ends."

That did not calm the outraged Membrane, it had the opposite effect "That's-!"

"Just-!" A screeching voice not belonging to either Membranes or the Pines was also heard joining Dib.

"STUPID!" Both Dib and the voice shouted in dismay. Realising that it wasn't anyone of the present company that were joining one with Dib, they glanced at the source of the voice.

It was Zim who was monitoring them in the bush until he revealed himself when he got out of his cover to share the Membrane Boy's nerd rage with both hands up now frozen like statue,

seeing that he made an oopsie.Feeling the stares everyone was giving him he chuckled nervously.

"Ehehehe, Zim goes to fight you the other OTHER day!" His thrusters activated and this time he flowed away for good.

A few awkward moments were between the Pines and Membrane.

"The fact that he knew of us contacting online means Zim was spying." Dipper noted.

"I really need to upgrade the security of my account." The hair spiked boy concur.

Gaz gagged in disgust and anger at the implications and made a fist "Pheg! that green bug better not stalk me too if he knows what's good for him!"

After processing the disturbing implications that Zim may also have supervised their internet search history, Dib decided to change the subject as he glanced back at his best friend.

"So…there really is a UFO in Gravity Falls?"

"How did you know that?"

The Membrane boy sheepishly told the why with two fingers aligned to each other "Well… I overheard you with others, was there an alien infiltration here as well?"

Mabel chortled "We wish! Try having Armageddon by an eldritch triangle god!"

That left Dib frozen at what he just heard, gears began to work in his big cranium, processing the fact that there was an apocalypse and not related to Zim made him exclaim high, result? An explosive exclamation that warped the air from the sheer sonic wave.

"WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT!?!?

The Pines winced at the high volume as the shout was so high that the birds flew from the trees they were sitting in.


Deep in the woods lies Zim's new base of operation in the form of a dome shielded by grass and vegetation to hide it well in contrast to his previous base of operation which used America's proudness on a culture of freaks and oddities to hide as a very strange looking house. Indoor it was the almost replicate of the previous base; however, smaller and the weird Monkey photo is gonna be blasted with a burning hole at the centre from a raging Irken.

BLAST!

A red beam coming from a weapon coming from Zim's Pak ruined it with a smoking hole leaving it began to burn lit on fire until the new base' anti-fire hazard protocols put it down with an automated fire-extinguisher.

"CURSE YOU Gir for betraying your master to the dirty worms!" Zim bellowed up to the ceiling ranting and ranting that Gir went 'Native' and a traitor to the Irken Empire.

"To THINK you would choose these…these inferior life forms I was supposed to conquer, after everything I did for you!" He howled in a dramatic pose, just then a floating small Moose came in.

"Nyah." It could only say that and yet the Invader seemed to understand what it meant perfectly.

"Not you minimoose! You're my most obedient minion! You're good in Zim's grace!" He told his other minion with a satisfied nod.

"Nyah." It chirped happily.

Without any warning, three small humanoid goats swarmed at a surprised Zim who nearly shrieked.

"UNCLE ZIM!" The three smaller hairy humanoids with small goat horns jumping on him began to hug him as Zim seethered in repulsion of such open form of affection. "Unhand me! Stop squishing me!"

They were the offsprings of prisoner 777 which he gained for extortion as he would say. Vortians to be exact. That race used to be allies to the Irken Empire during the reign of Tallest Miyuki, until her demise resulting in them being blamed for her death and being betrayed, though this is the Irken Empire we are talking about, who considers all other species to be inferior so it probably was inevitable.

"COMPUTER!" Zim as he struggled to push the alien children off him called out.

That was when the base's AI, with a bored tone, answered his master's call completely non-enthusiastically "Ugh, yes?"

"I thought I told you to keep the hairy smeets entertained!" He finally managed to push the three hellions away.

"Uh, did? Otherwise we would have another 'Cheese Ball of Doom' on our hands."

"Nyah!" The flying moose objected, considering he has no hands.

"I don't have anything against those who don't have hands!" The AI protested at the notion that he discriminates against those with hands.

Zim ignored their bickering and shuddered at the memory, let's just say…as he found painfully Vortian kids, if not entertained properly and getting bored for a long period would go on a…phase. That tube which he used to keep them there with a big button that said 'ERASE CHILDREN' wasn't the only thing the three goat babies broke during their rampage. 'So much cheese...!' He thought as he repulsed in displeasure, it did not help that Gir before that tried to educate them on how to make cheese from squids' inks.

It was also another reason why he after that incident no longer have them contained in some cage or prison, though as much as he revile at the idea of being called an "Uncle" he does find a certain fondness in having those who genuinely admire him and being able to shape younglings into perfect Elite Invaders(though he would rather get swallowed by a Black Hole to ever admit that to anyone.)

Minimoose went to entertain the energetic children with a chippy "Nyah!" Moving the children away to leave Zim enough space to think and strategize.

"Drat! No matter where on this pitiful planet, the Dib Stink keep on my nonexisting tail like a Camelian Leech!" He moved left and right on a militaristic movement "And these Pines have proven more competent than expected of the entire human vermine race! But again…." He stopped moving and gave a scared gaze, like he expected an intruder to come in, "Better dealing with them than being sent to Area 51 where other non-terrestrials get OPENED AND CARVED and Then!" His eyes then looked haunted with a snap of his neck "Then! put in a glass of Amino acid to be gazed upon by their filthy and unworthy eyes!" He shivered with his hands grabbing both of his arms like he was feeling cold.

That was when the Computer felt the need to interject "Haven't we hidden like an entire year after our base was attacked by human military? Not to mention we self-destruct our- "

Zim cut the AI off in indignation "OUR!? IT WAS MY BEAUTIFUL BASE!"

"Whatever, 'your' base you set in self-destruct to wipe all traces and had the old Voot Runner used for our escape and hide on the dark side of the moon for some time as you giggled like a lunatic, while spying on the Dib human, slowly morphing into a blob of fat fused to his chair- " momentarily showed the video of Zim giggling madly as he looked at earth through a telescope to Membrane House.

"Oh yeah, it was cathartic." Zim fondly recalled spying on Dib, taking joy in seeing him in the process of becoming miserable and purposeless.

"Until the user 'Lord Tyrone Pines' gave him some encouraging words making you to throw a tantrum from seeing your arch-enemy no longer morphing into a hideous fleshy blob to the point you tracked down the one who I quote-" the Computer began to quote Zim's exact word by showing a video of an infuriated Zim "ZIM WILL FEED THAT WRETCHED INSECT ENOUGH KATS TILL HE DEVELOPS AN ASTHMATIC CRISIS IN HIS BLADDER!" The video feed shut off back to the expressionless monitor with beeping lines that only go up and down from vocalization "(Which is not how asthma works and please don't do that.) By marching to eliminate him with no plan, no research on who the target is, as the said target also has family units and allies that turned out to be even more competent and deranged paranormal investigators than the Dib." It then showed random pictures of the Pines from Dipper with a taser fighting a giant bat while two cops cowered behind him to Wendy arrested for vandalism with handcuffs on her back by two cops both of their faces are pixelated while showing a group of teens with pixelated faces seemingly cheering for the vandalist and the wall near had the yellow giraffe of a triangle with an eye, two jail pictures showing the worried Ford holding his serial number while in the other was Stan giving pose with one hand holding his serial number with a grin like it was picture day, a restraining order from the Corduroy brothers against Mabel who had a deranged look with both pupils one up and the other down and giving a raspberry and Soos greeting a group of tourists to the Mystery Shack with an article that said 'Human or Gopher-men?'.

Zim grunted in annoyance with hands shooing him "Yes, yes. Must be the best day of your sad existence to prove Zim wrong." He dismissed "But WROOOONG!" He then contradicted the Computer who sighed.

"It was also because Gravity Falls has secrets! Secrets for Zim to use in his mission! Eliminating the Dib-clone was only phase 1 of 3 phases!"

"And what is phase 2?" The AI in a deceptively casual tone snarked. The green alien then tried to speak, his mouth kept gaping as he tried to think of something to say with a claw on his head scratching.

"You didn't plan that far, did you?" The artificial being wasn't even surprised by his master's lack of oversight and it was certainly not the first time

Zim did not appreciated his subject's attitude as he made a loud outburst with a finger pointed at the ceiling "DOOON'T question the wisdom of Almighty ZIM!"

"Whatever." The Computer relented with apathy, knowing his advice and critics were rarely appreciated. "Do I have to expect a depressing episode now that the annoying Sir unit is no longer here to ruin your plans?"

"NONSENSE! Zim will not miss that rusted bucket of random circuitry trash!" Zim denies that by shaking his head repeatedly "If anything, I won't have to worry about him ruining my INGENIOUS plans to take over this dirtball!"

Time would tell if he really meant it or not.


"I CAN'T BELIEVE IT!" Dib shouted out as he paced, "I can't believe there was a localized apocalypse by interdimensional horrors and you people managed to save the day and get credit for it!" After explaining the Weirdmageddon which they were at first reluctant to tell about Bill Cipher considering the grief that Dream Demon gave the Pines family if it weren't for Dib's infectious excitement and not stopping in nagging them to explain further.

"I just can't believe it! I'm soooo jealous of you both!" He excitedly said to the Pines, Gaz nearly facepalmed as his brother always did not know when to shut up evident by the Pines baffled by that egregious statement.

"Hey hey, it's not as grandiose as you make it." Dipper protested with a frown.

"Trust us when we say, it messed us up, hard." Mabel grimely added.

Dib was too excited to pay attention "What other world in danger adventures did you have??" He then babbled "Did you go to space too!?"

"Actually, we have never been to space." Dipper answered his question.

"Oh I have so much to tell you!" And so he began to tell them of his experience of going to space with zealous glee.

Dib was insatiable in learning of their adventures, even Gaz decided to join in only because she didn't have her Game Slayer because apparently she's too addicted to it. So the patriarch of the Membrane family banned her from that until the end of the summer trip, to her displeasure. So out of boredom and also because knowing her brother he would misinterpret or omit some embarrassing details and she was gonna get a kick in correcting those in exchange the Pines would learn of theirs.

Even though the Pines are used to facing strange and weird stuff, even they had to admit some of the things the Membranes told them didn't make any sense: like turning to bologna by bologna DNA? bologna is a food product, unless he meant pig DNA there is no such thing as 'bologna DNA'. They would have a much easier time believing if it was by magic.

These were some interesting times.


"WHYYYY HAVE YOU BETRAYED ME GIIIR!"

Zim really did mean what he said; he definitely did not just wallow, certainly wasn't sitting on the couch eating snacks to fill the void he was feeling(sometimes with even their packages unopened which he didn't care or was oblivion) and absolutely wasn't missing Gir to the point he was weeping, anyone who thinks that has puny brain matters.

"WHYYYYYYYAAAAAAAH!" Another ear-blistering wail was vocalized as he ate his snacks while Minimoose came near him and nuzzled in its attempt to comfort him.

"Nyah"

The Computer whined from hearing Zim having a depression episode, if it had ears it would be sure that their drums would bleed from the almighty wails of the 'Almighty Zim' "Ugh, this is even worse than when you turned into a literal pile of cheesy misery."


After exchanging stories of their adventures and to the male Pines and Memebrane's horror exchanging embarrassing stories by their respective sisters who have finally found one thing to find commonality in which is making fun of their brothers, They decided to go to the location where Skool children are planned to stay which is a motel. There, the tour given seemed to be long over and it was near lunchtime, there were no signs of the teachers except for the Skool children playing and walking in the courtyard of the motel.

Suddenly, the kids stopped whatever they were doing and froze as they were, with some gasps being heard, as if they saw something very spooky, which turned out to be true as the Pines and Membrane will find out.

A shadowy figure slithered behind the Pines and Membranes which caught their attention.

Mabel yelped and Dipper came in front of her infront of the scary crone that hissed like a snake while Dib became stiff in contrast to Gaz who kept her calm and stoic posture. There it

was, Miss Bitters, the crone fossilized she-demon in all its glory looking at the startled group with the scowl of a vulture and looking so old that she may as well be as old as dinosaurs.

"You're late." Miss Bitters hissed.

Dib swallowed and spoke "We- I- we're-"

"I don't care if you were trying to find the swage Loch Ness or decided to harass another hairy boy as 'Big Foot's kid'." Miss Bitters cut him short coldly "But losing children would be a bad image for Skool so next time ask permission before going out or the next term you will spend time in the Underground Classroom." she said with a grim visage the last part.

Dib became pale at hearing that, the Pines knew by his look of fear that whatever it was, it was not good.

"And that includes all of you." the Skool kids noded frantically at the threat also mortified.

"Y-yes Miss Bitters!"

"As it may." The Crone then with unnatural elegance slithered away like a shadow. "And the same is true for you Gazele!"

Gaz wanted to object before the scary teacher walked(or rather slithered) away.

There was a pause leaving everyone silent until Mabel was the first to say "I'm pretty sure your teacher is not normal at all."

"Remember when I said our school is freaking weird?"" Gaz reminded them.

"Who are they?" Sara one of the Skool asked and pointed at the Pines.

Dib gave a dramatic introduction "Meet! My, NEW FRIENDS!" He pointed at the Pines who felt slightly uncomfortable with the attention they were given. "Who, unlike you narrow minded lot, actually appreciates my insight into the paranormal!"

The Skool students murmured with each other.

"Dib? Get friends?" Zita stated in genuine surprise and blinked, the very concept of that was incomprehensible to her.

"I'M YOUR FRIEND!" Keef enthusiastically got his hand up with something so infectious that Mabel thought he was some alternate male version of herself back during the first summer.

"No you're not Keef." Dib refuted him.

"Awo." Keef with a deflated face looked down.

Jessica snarked by channelling her inner karen "Of course you would find friends with people who rather spend time chasing hocus pocus than pursuing real academic endeavours."

A sly smile crept on Dipper's lips instead of outrage. "Oh I don't know, not everyone can afford it, maybe the chain of the world should check her privileges." The last word hit her like a shockwave gaining everyone's attention.

Jessica was taken back by that retort before she regained control over her composure and decided to try to change the topic "Well…I think you have no idea who you're befriending with the big headed freak and the unholy purple fatty!"

"My Head is not- !"

"I'm not fat- !"

Both male and female Membranes respectively tried to protest; nevertheless, Dipper continued to roast Jessica.

"And what? Big people shouldn't be proud of who they are?" The Pines boy's sly smile became a sly grin as he added, causing others to give a collective "OOOOooooh!" To the blonde's ever increasing dismay as her tactic backfired.

"NONO! I mean- ! I'm just saying they should visit a doctor! He- "

"A 'he'? Why do you think it has to be a 'he'? Do you think women can't do it?" That caused the Skool students to wince at such sharp retorts while Jessica now hyperventilating.

"I- BU- THA!- STOP CANCELLING ME!" Jessica cried out before she then began to run away as she screamed in dismay. Leaving everyone bewildered looking from where Jessica was to the Pines who gave a twin smug satisfaction.

"Wow, I'm actually impressed." The purple haired Membrane with eyes wide really meant what he said.

"You're officially the coolest person I ever met!" Dib after commenting on that then fell on his knee in an act of procrastination with his hands down. "Teach me your ways oh great wise sage!"

Dipper gave an eyebrow at that statement, 'Is this what it feels like to be in Wendy's shoes?' He wondered as Membrane's admiration of him reminds him of his own admiration of Wendy. To be honest, he did not expect his retorts to work at all or to sound cool; he just felt like he had to put the Queen Bee in her place.

Chunck snorted in mockery "Bah! These pipsqueaks don't look tough! All bark does not bite!"

This time it was Mabel who retorted back "Oh, like you who is the very definition of 80s stereotype to fed his own insecurities by bullying those weaker than you, ya Smelly-sick looking- brutish-worm for brains-unseasonable jacket wearing-Lummox-thick headed-toxic masculine pretending but secretly chicken- secretly puppy loving-insecure-air headed-stereotypical jock of a CLOD!" Mabel finally finished her long rant of insults causing everyone except Dipper and Gaz to gasp aloud at this. Chunk began breathing rigidly like an angry bull, his breathing becoming more and more intense with his eyes out of his eye sockets with visible veins in rage ready to explode like a volcano on the girl who made insults after insults on him while the said girl and her brother were ready for a confrontation.

Then something completely unexpected happened catching everyone off guard who was crying with both hands on his eyes "IT'S TRUE! I LOVE PUPPIES!" He then ran away as he wept in tears leaving Mabel blinking in confusion, not the reaction she was expecting.

That left the Skool children looking in utter disbelief of what just happened and then again looked back at the twins too dumbfounded to say anything. Even Gaz disgruntledly developed respect for the Pines.

"Who are you guys!?" Poonchy blurted out what the Skoolmates were thinking.

Mabel after getting out of her confused state decried with an air of finality. "Mess with the Pines, you get the needles!"

After saying that she swiped with both of her hands in x formation. Afterwards, the Pines Twins decided to leave as Dib swiped his hand to say goodbye "See ya later!"

If that demonstration on Jessica wasn't enough, the fact that Dib's new friends managed to make Chunk the bully cry caused the Skool students to mentally add to never mess with these guys because these Pines absolutely have needle leaves sharper than swords.

While Dib and Gaz were ascending up stairs The Membrane boy began fanboying with his far less enthusiastic sister by leaning near her. "Aren't they so cool!?"

"Ugh." At least it is a step up from Zim or cryptids and conspiracies she thought, didn't mean she was gonna enjoy her brother's babbling still.

"And THIS place! I can't wait to uncover its mysteries!"

Said too soon, Gaz groaned and hit her face on the wall, repeatedly until it developed cracks.