A/N: Yeah, I updated this one... When I started working on it again it was the when the reviews were down... My depression has been pretty bad... and I went to see Star Wars on Tuesday so there's that too... Anyways enjoy!
Chapter 7: Time Loop
Hotaru had taken in the two clones. She knew something about non-traditional families and offered opt make one with the clones. After all neither of them were technically Dipper, and even they were technically made of paper they wee still people.
However it was better to plan out makeovers.
And so one day, Dipper, Mabel, Serena and the other girls went to Hotaru's house to give the two clones makeovers and find a way to prevent water damage.
However this was the first time going to Hotaru's house and needless to say they were shocked by the rather big fancy modern house in front of them.
"Is this really the place?" asked Lila.
Dipper rang the doorbell and Hotaru opened the door.
"Good you made it." Said Hotaru letting them in.
The two clones were playing a video game.
"This is really your house?" asked Mabel in shock.
"Is Grunkle Stan right? Are you secretly rich?" asked Serena.
"It's true!" said Hotaru, "One of my aunts is a famous painter and violinist, another of them is a famous race driver and my father… well when I was young he owned a very prominent and elite private school… then it mysteriously blew up and we're still living off the insurance money."
They all stared at Hotaru who just smiled.
"All right! Let's get started on this make-overs"! said Mabel.
She and Marina held onto markers and stencils.
"I got a bad feeling about this." Said Number 3.
"IT will all be over soon." Said number 4.
As Mabel and Marina gave them makeovers Serena was looking at a picture, it was the one when she was young.
"So this is your family?" asked Serena.
"Yep! My three aunts and dad." Said Hotaru.
Serena looked at the two cats in the picture.
"Why do they seem familiar?" thought Serena.
"You know I was wondering… how did you meet your aunts?" asked Dipper.
Hotaru froze.
"He does raise a good point, they are also Sailor Guardians, aren't they?" asked Riley.
Hotaru sighed, "I guess I should come clean about it… you see, my father… at one point was possessed by an alien parasite." She explained.
"What?" asked Dipper.
"The story gets weirder." Sighed Hotaru, "That school I mentioned factored into the parasite's evil plan. It was up to Sailor Uranus, Sailor Neptune and Sailor Pluto to stop it and it's goals of destroying the earth. When it was all over my father was free but didn't remember anything… They also could tell I was Sailor Saturn… the three of them decided to help my dad raise me and give me a normal enoguh life."
"Yet you came here to mentor us." Said Lila.
Hotaru shook her head no.
"Aunt Setsuna was going to do it, but I volunteered." Said Hotaru, "I chose this… I wanted to finally help even if I can't fight along side you…"
They all looked at Hotaru. Unsure how to respond.
"Besides I got the most normal childhood as I can get in my satiation." Said Hotaru, "I'm actually happy this all happened after I got out of school, daddy would never let me leave school to come to America for this."
"Hey guys! You want to check this out." Called out Marina.
"They're ready already?" asked Serena.
"That was fast." Said Dipper.
They came to see that indeed the makeovers were mostly done.
3 (who Marina was working on) now had black hair, his cap was a darker shade of blue, his shirt was a light shade of blue and his vest and shorts were black.
4 (who Mabel was working on) now had red hair, his cap was green, his shirt was yellow, and his vest was a dark green and his short were a denim blue.
"Wow you actually did a good job." Said 3.
"What's that supposed to mean?" asked Marina, "Just because I tore skin off your uncle's chest doesn't mean I'm bad at make-overs."
"What?" asked Dipper and his clones.
"Marina… Dipper wasn't there that day…" pointed out Mabel.
They all looked at Hotaru who was shaking her head no.
"Silly Question, but are the stencils for?" asked 4.
"Seriously? You haven't figured it out." Said Mabel.
She pointed to the numbers on their caps.
"Oh yeah…" said 4.
"Should have remembered that." Sighed 3.
They played rock paper scissors who got the star. 3 ended up winning.
And so 4 ended up with a paw print.
"All right! So it seems thanks to you composition hair spray will work to prevent you from getting wet." Said Amelia who was on her computer the whole time, "I'll ask my grandpa if he can think of any sort of substance that prevent paper from melting."
All the Pines (including Dipper's clones) all nodded while the others stared at Amelia like she was crazy.
None of them knew that Old Man McGucket was also a mad scientist.
"He dabbles with potions sometimes…." Said Amelia.
"Okay…" said Marina.
"Anyways we all need names for you." Said Hotaru, "Since we can't call you Dipper Clone 3 and Dipper Clone 4."
"And Tyrone's out of the question since you know…" said Dipper.
The other two clones were quiet at that mention.
"So what names are we going to use?" asked 4.
"How about Andrew and Sammy." Said Serena coming up with two names.
"No…" said the two clones.
"How about Chad and Melvin?" asked Marina.
"No." said the clones thinking those names were pretty bad.
"Jason and Alex?" asked Amelia.
"No…" said 3.
"That was one feels forced if you ask me." Said 4.
"How about Rob and Doug." Said Lila.
"No… I don't know but those names sound a bit off." Said 3.
"Yeah." Said 4.
"How about we use a random name generator online and use that?" asked Riley.
They all shrugged.
They pulled up the computers and looked at the options.
"Okay how about Danish, Dutch, , English, French, German, Italian…" said Amelia clicking the boxes.
"Put Japanese." Said Hotaru.
"Fine… for you." Said 3.
"Put Jewish too!" said Mabel.
"Okay also Portuguese, Scottish, Spanish and Welsh… anything else. "said Amelia.
"How about the names on that list." Said Mabel pointing to one of the lists.
The list had all sort of weird options like "Fairy" "Goth" "Hippy" and "Transformer"
"No." said both Clones.
"Tell when you find something." Said Amelia.
After several names the name "Garrick" popped up.
"Oh that sounds cool!" said 3 and 4 at the same time.
"3 gets it since he's older." Said Dipper.
"Fine…" muttered 4.
"Yes!" said the newly named Garrick.
After a few more names the name "Blaine" popped up.
"Oh yeah! I want that one!" said 4.
"Okay, so you're name is Blaine now." Said Dipper.
"Yes!" said the newly dubbed Blaine.
"Okay now you need last names." Said Mabel.
"I was thinking we stickle to the tree theme so I came up with a few last names, Oak, Elm, Birch, Rowan and Juniper." Said Hotaru.
There weans an awkward silence.
"Wait a second those are the professor names from Pokémon!" said Blaine.
"Seriously?" asked Garrick.
"I didn't think you'd notice…" said Hotaru.
"Just use them…" said Mabel.
"I'll go with Juniper." Said Garrick
"I'll take Birch." Said Blaine.
"Blaine Birch?" asked Dipper.
"I like the alteration." Said Blaine with a shrug.
"All right, you two are now Blaine Birch and Garrick Juniper!" said Hotaru.
The two nodded.
"You know I was think there's a chance they won't age…" said Amelia.
"We'll cross that bridge when we get to it." Said Hotaru.
And so over the course of the next few days the twins had an adventure dealing the real 8th President of the US.
It's a long story…
And soon enoguh Stan decided to hold a fair, for various reasons.
Of course Hotaru had to help set it up.
"Behold, the cheapest fair money can buy." Said Stan, "I spared every expense."
That was when the tram ride fell, turns out Dipper was riding it.
"Grunkle Stan, the tram is broken… and so are some of my bones." Said Dipper.
"Nonsense." Said Stan.
"By the way Hotaru, can you put these on the rides." Said Stan handing her some grades that all said A.
Hotaru sighed.
"Is that legal?" asked Mabel.
"Anything's legal as long as there no cops around." Said Stan.
Hotaru sighed and did her job then later she checked on Dipper.
"Thanks." Said Dipper.
"By the way Garrick and Blaine are coming the fair." Said Hotaru.
"How are they doing?" asked Dipper.
"Fine." Said Hotaru, "Garrick is figuring out way to explore the forest without getting too wet while Blaine decided to try to be his own person, he hasn't figured how to do that yet."
"Yeah…" said Dipper.
"IF you want to you should hang out with them." Said Hotaru.
"Actually I'm hanging out with Wendy." Said Dipper.
"Oh okay." Said Hotaru.,
Dip[per stretched.
"Amazing…" he said, "I can't believe I can't believe you have powers like that."
"Yeah… growing up a lot of people found it weird." Said Hotaru.
"Does my sister have any powers when not transformed." Said Dipper.
"I don't think so." Sighed Hotaru.
And so the fair got underway. As Stan was busy with the dunk tank, Hotaru had the day off and decided to enjoy the fair.
She saw that Serena was enjoying the Tunnel of Love and Corn Dogs with Darien.
"That was… a very strange ride." Said Darien.
Serena nodded.
Hotaru noticed a strange bald man and he crashed into Dipper who was carrying ice
She looked at his uniform and her eyes widened.
"Oh man." She sighed, "Can't I have at least one day off from anything…"
"What's going on?" asked Marina the other girl showed up.
"It's nothing to be concerned about." Said Hotaru, "Don't it's fine."
She found the bald man.
"A Paradox Removal Agent…" said Hotaru, "Can you tell me what you're doing around here?"
The man screamed and turned to Hotaru.
"How do you know about me?" he yelled.
Hotaru took out her transformation wand, which was much different than the other girls, it was purple with the planet Saturn with the rings a little lopsided, on top the planet was a gold star that had the mark of Saturn.
She also removed a small key from around her neck and showed it to him.
The man began to shake.
"A Sailor Guardian…" he said.
Hotaru nodded.
"Look I didn't know you were here! I'm sorry!" he cried falling to his knees, "Spare me! I'm just here to do my job."
"I just want to help…" said Hotaru.
The man looked at her nervously.
Hotaru sighed.
"Do you know what you're looking for?" asked Hotaru.
"No…" he answered, "I have no idea what's going to happen…"
"I'll be on the look out for anything wrong." Said Hotaru quickly figuring out there wasn't much she could do help.
"It's better if you don't get involved, I mean what am I going to tell my boss that a Sailor Guardian helped me.. . I mean…" said the man.
"It's fine…" sighed Hotaru, "Just forget I even talked to you."
"Right…" said the man.
Hotaru sighed as the two parted ways.
Unaware that she was going to get involved anyways.
As the fair was winding Hotaru was tracing a break on the couch in the front of the mystery shack.
"I need to take more days off." Said Hotaru stretching.
Was when the key she wore around her neck began to glow.
"What?" she asked.
There was a bright of light and suddenly she found herself at the start of the fair.
She began to sweat.
That was when her cellphone started ringing.
"Hello." She said.
"(Hotaru, it's an emergency.)" said a voice in Japanese.
"(I know Aunt Setsuna…)" said Hotaru.
"(I don't know what's going on, but someone or something is messing with time)" said Setsuna (who was Sailor Pluto).
"(I know It's centered right here in Gravity Falls other wise you wouldn't have called me.)" said Hotaru.
"(One of Time Baby's people?)" asked Setsuna.
"(One of Time Baby's People)" confirmed Hotaru.
"(Time Police or Paradox Avoidance?)" asked Setsuna.
"(Paradox Avoidance.)" said Hotaru.
"(Looks like you're going to have to find that time paradox.)" said Setsuna on the other end.
"(It was my day off too…)" sighed Hotaru.
She heard laughing.
"(Sorry…)" laughed Setsuna.
"(It's fine)" said Hotaru.
"(Give your new boys and the other Sailor Senshi my best.)" said Setsuna.
"(Yeah…)" sighed Hotaru.
She began to look around looking for changes in the time line.
"Hotaru! It's bad!" yelled Garrick running towards her with Amelia.
"What's wrong?" asked Hotaru.
"Well you see…" sighed Garrick.
They lead Hotaru to the problem.
She found a mob with torches and pitchforks. She saw that the other girls, Blaine and Serena were trying to defuse it.
"What's going on?" asked Hotaru.
That was when the one leading them (which Hotaru recognized a farmer running a booth where you guess a pig's weight and if you guess correctly you win it.) came forehead.
"There's a witch among us and we must burn her!" said the farmer.
"What?" asked Hotaru.
"Can you tell the story from the Beginning?" asked Hotaru.
"Of course." Said the farmer.
He told the story, and Hotaru sighed afterwards.
"You can't burn the witch." Said Hotaru.
"Why not it's in the town charter?" asked the father.
"What?" aced Hotaru.
"Quentin Trembley." Sighed Serena.
Once again, long story.
"Look, it might be in the town charter but it's still a little girl." Said Hotaru, "And she was probably messing with you…"
"How would she did she know what was I going to say though." Said the farmer.
"Look as Stan Pines personal assistant." Said Hotaru.
Much of the mob went "Oh… that's why she's talking to us."
"I have the authority to ban you from the rest of the fair." Said Hotaru, "Disperse peacefully or I'll call the police."
The mob ended up breaking up save the farmer.
"I should get back to my booth." Said the farmer.
Hotaru sighed.
"This didn't happen last time." Sighed Hotaru.
"Did you just say last time?" asked Blaine why over heard her.
"Oh that's not important." Said Hotaru.
"Hotaru…" sighed Garrick.
"Aunt Setsuna game the task to find a strange time paradox going on." Sighed Hotaru.
"What?" asked everyone else.
"It's not really Sailor Business so you can't get invoked…" sighed Hotaru.
That was when the time key began to glow and she disappeared.
"Died she just disappear." Said Serena.
"She did say mentioned something about a time paradox." Said Garrick.
"You think she'll be fine?" asked Marina.
"She was raised by the Guardian of time." Pointed out Blaine.
They all shrugged and went about their business.
Back at the start of the fair Hotaru sighed.
"I have be on the look out for a girl with a pig, that's the easiest thing to find." Thought Hotaru.
She was on the look out for a girl and a pig and she began to note certain events of the day. Such as Wendy constantly getting hurt by Dipper thanks to a game.
However she didn't pay much attention to that, she tried to find a girl with a pig.
She decided to take a short break after several loops.
As she sat on the bench someone handed her a corn dog, she saw it was Garrick.
"Thanks." She said.
She stared at the corn dog, which was question mark shaped.
"The shape?" asked Garrick.
"The shape." Confirmed Hotaru.
She began to eat but Garrick could still tell something was wrong.
"Is something wrong?" he asked.
"I'm caught in a time loop." Sighed Hotaru.
"Okay… wait… what?" asked Garrick.
"You see someone or something is messing with time." Said Hotaru, "All I know is a girl who claimed to be a witch won a pig might be the cause."
"Wait won a pig?" asked Garrick.
"Yes." Said Hotaru, "You know something?"
Garrick nodded.
"Mabel won a pig she named Waddles." Said Garrick, "You don't think."
"I should have checked her… " sighed Hotaru.
"And if she has been time traveling, claiming to a be a witch is something she would do." Said Garrick.
Hotaru nodded.
She finished her corn dog, because that was when she was pilled back ion time again.
She began to search around for Mabel, that was when she saw she was fighting with Dipper over a tape measure.
She knew that was the time machine that the man she met earlier was using.
She sighed, "Today's not my day." She sighed.
She ran over and seprated the two.
"Stop this now and give me the tape measure!" said Hotaru.
"No way!" said Dipper.
"I know your two are trouble magnets but messing with time is bad." Said Hotaru.
"Wait…" said Mabel.
"How do you know about the time travel?" asked Dipper.
"Aunt Setsuna gave me the task to fix the paradox going on." Sighed Hotaru, "And my emergency time key was dragging me along too…"
She showed them the key around her neck.
"This allows me to travel through time, thought it's not as effective a tape." Explained Hotaru, "Although due to the paradox you're creating it's dragging me along with you."
The twins looked guilty.
"So tell me how did you get yours hands on it and why you're now fighting." Said Hotaru.
They told her the story, Dipper tried to win a stuffed toy for Wendy, he ended up hitting her in the eye. When he tried to get her ice he bumped into the time traveler.
It was bumping into him that caused Dipper to miss his chance with Wendy as Robbie asked her out and Dipper entered a depression.
However they learned that he was a time traveler they needed up stealing his time machine and the two had been reliving the fair over and over again, with Dipper trying make sure Wendy didn't get hurt.
Mabel tagged along because she wanted to relive winning her piggy over and over.
However Dipper finally came up with a plan to win the stuffed toy, use Mabel. However the plan prevented Mabel from winning her pig, Pacifica won it instead.
Which is why they were now fighting over the tape measure.
"Dipper you have to go back in time and fix things." Said Hotaru.
"What?" asked Dipper.
"Look the person you the time machine from…" sighed Hotaru, "In the future his faction and the Sailor Guardians are in a cold war."
The twins paled.
"Plus you know… my aunt is also tasked with protecting time…" said Hotaru, "I know more than enoguh about the time line."
"She's right, none of this was meant to happen." Said Mabel, "We have to fix this."
"But I finally got what I want!" said Dipper.
The tow once again started to fight over the time machine being sent back in time.
However they were sent too far back that the Time Key didn't drag Hotaru.
Hotaru sighed, "I guess have to wait and see what happen…" sighed Hotaru.
She waited for the two to hopefully return. After a few minutes she heard screaming form inside a porta-potty.
The door opened and the two walked out.
"How did you know get stuck in a port potty?" asked Hotaru.
The two shrugged.
Hotaru grabbed the time tape from Dipper.
"Dipper we have to fix this, do you know how much trouble you can get if you don't change it back! I don't even think Serena can protect you from this! I can't even protect you from this! Aunt Setsuna can't even protect you from this!" said Hotaru.
Dipper paled.
"You serious?" asked Dipper.
"Completely." Said Hotaru, "Look I know you have a crush on Wendy."
"How do you know?" asked Dipper.
"It wasn't hard to spot." Said Mabel.
"But I doubt she'll stay together with Robbie, for various reasons." Said Hotaru.
"I even heard in a couple timeline a pool going around about how their going to breakup." Said Mabel.
"Seriously?" asked Dipper.
"Look Dipper I don't what's going to happen." Said Hotaru, "But if you don't realign the timeline then something bad is going to happen."
Dipper sighed, whatever Hotaru knew it must be serious.
Hotaru handed the time machine back to him and he pulled the tape and went back in time.
"Hey!" yelled Mabel realizing he left her behind.
Thankfully Hotaru grabbed her in time so they went back in time together.
"Why don't you use that time key often?" asked Mabel.
"Because this is not the normal way it's used." Said Hotaru, "That and it's supposed to be used in emergencies."
Mabel nodded and then ran over to the pig booth.
"Wait! Don't say you're a witch!" said Hotaru.
"What?" asked Blaine walking towards her.
"Long story." Sighed Hotaru.
And so Hotaru walked over to the booth with the stuffed todays Dipper wanted to win for Wendy.
She watched Dipper.
"Wendy, I just wanted to say that… well that some people make mistakes. When they do you should forgive them… also tight pants are overrated." Said Dipper.
"Dude you lost me." Said Wendy.
"I know." Sighed Dipper.
Hotaru watched Dipper threw the ball and landed right in Wendy's face. She was tempted to treat her right then and there to give Dipper a Sweet and Sour Grapes ending but she knew she couldn't do that.
And so she watched as Robbie asked out Wendy.
It was her job to ensure that the time line as right as it could.
Dipper walked over to her while Mabel ran over with a pig in tow.
"Oh I want you meet Waddles!" said Mabel, "Waddles this is Hotaru!"
Waddles oinked happily.
Dipper sighed.
"Sorry." Said Hotaru.
"It's all right." Said Dipper, "I mean they cant' date all summer."
"YOU TWO!" yelled the time traveler.
He grabbed the time machine from Dipper.
"Do you know how many rules you have broken?" he asked, "No seriously I'm asking I was there for it."
"Blendin Blandin!" yelled a voice.
They turned to see two futuristic guys in armor.
"Time Police." Muttered Hotaru.
She instantly placed the twins behind her.
"Our phones have been ringing off the hook!" said one with the nametag that said "Lolph", "There are settlers high fiving each other in the 1800s and calculators littered in 5 centuries."
"What did you do?" asked Hotaru.
"You didn't follow us?" whispered Dipper.
"I couldn't." said Hotaru, "My time travel was limited to this day."
"You are under arrest for the time travelers code of conduct." Said the other who had "Dundgren" on his nametag.
The two grabbed him.
"Wait! It wasn't my fault." Said Blendin, "It was those kids fault!"
As they dragged him away Hotaru realized something.
"Wait!" said Hotaru.
The two men stopped.
"What do you want?" asked Lolph.
"I think you need to be lenient on him, it seems this was a stable time loop." Said Hotaru.
"I have no idea how you know about this." Said Dundgren.
However before he could finish that sentence she pulled out her transformation wand and time key like she did for Blendin earlier.
"My name is Hotaru Tomoe." Said Hotaru, "I believe you know the name…"
"Sailor Saturn…" said Lolph.
Both of them glared at her harshly, but she didn't budge.
"If you believe that's the case then we'll consider it." Said Dundgren.
"But we can't make any promises." Said Lolph.
Hotaru nodded.
Blendin looked at her with a thankful look on his face, then shot a glare at the twins.
This wouldn't be the last time he would encounter the twins… for if everything went bad, he would have his revenge.
Once they were out of site Hotaru sighed.
"I'm going to have a take off tomorrow." Sighed Hotaru.
"Wait do you honestly think that's the case… "said Mabel.
"It makes sense if you think about it." Said Dipper, "I guess all of the stuff your aunt told you about time travel must have worked."
"Uh…" said Hotaru.
(Flashback)
They were was Back to the Future as a family when Hotaru was young.
"You know my theory about this movie is that this is merely the start of a stable time loop." Said Setsuna as they watched.
They all looked at Setsuna.
"Sorry…" said Setsuna.
(End of Flashback)
"It's not important." Said Hotaru.
They saw walked through their last time at the fair.
"I guess I have to get used to that." Said Dipper looking at the two looking lovely dovey.
"I wouldn't if I were you." Said Lila and Riley as they joined them, "She's going to dump him soon enoguh."
"I say he's going to do something really stupid." Said Riley, "And break her heart."
"Seriously?" asked Lila.
"I know my brother." Said Riley with a shrug.
They watched as the two lovebirds ate a caramel apple together.
"Can I?" asked Mabel.
"Go ahead." Said Riley.
"Fine with me." Said Lila with a shrug.
And so she let Waddles go after the caramel apple tackling Robbie and knocking him into some hot water and causing his tight pants to shrink, earning a laugh from everyone watching.
Dipper looked at Waddles.
"That will do pig, that will do." He said to the pig.
And so Hotaru's never ending day finally ended.
However the Twins didn't realize they made an enemy, an enemy who while didn't seem that intimidating had a grudge and a method for revenge.
But for now, they were safe… safe from both him and the faction he worked for.
Next Time: Robbie challenges Dipper to a fight, however Dipper ends up summoning a video game character to act as his body guard. But something goes wrong? Will Riley be able to save her brother? Find out next time!
A/N: Yeah, the random name generator I used did have those options... including the goofy list...