Disclaimers: I do not own Gravity Falls or the Relativity Falls AU idea.

Author's Notes: Good Morning my amazing readers! This Episode is inspired by the book Ford and Heather and the Curse of the Time Pirates Treasure. Now I know the book is non-canon, but Alex reveals that the part where Ford and Heather meet the Axolotl is! So I took some creative liberties to add the encounter into the series. Again PAY VERY CLOSE ATTENTION TO THIS EPISODE! It has a big payoff later on in the series!

As always, thank you for reading and please review!

Portal-Potty? (Part 2)

(Back with Ford)

He wasn't Sure what he had been expecting to see when they crossed over the threshold, but he had a few guesses. He knew thanks to the journal he could end up in a desert and thanks to Crazy Chu he knew he could walk through this door and see a T-Rex. What he wasn't expecting was a vast space filled with pink fluffy clouds and stars.

"Whoa!" Ford exclaimed as the ground ceased to exist from beneath him. Luckily, he and the others started to float in the space.

"Where are we?" Stan asked.

"The sky?" Fids asked. "But we're floating."

"Maybe it's the sky in another dimension!" Heather exclaimed. "Only here you float, like a planet with no gravity."

"Awe Man." Cooper whines. "I wanted to go back in time."

"Well looks like we have to leave and try again." Stan joked.

"Not a chance." Ford squashed that idea before anyone could back it up. "How much rope do we have stan?"

"Not a lot." Stan said as he swam ahead through the air to exercise his point. Only he kept going and going and going! "What the?"

Sussan who is tied to the same rope had no choice but to tag along for the ride. "This is so weird." She whispered.

"This place must warp objects that pace through." Fids realized.

"But why isn't it effecting us?" Cooper asked.

"Maybe it has to do with the rope being on both sides." Ford answered thoughtfully as he pointed the camera to Stan who is waving.

"Hey guys you have to see this!" He exclaimed.

"Should we?" Heather asked.

"Are you kidding?" Ford asked. "This could be the discovery of the century, heck ever!"

"Okay, but we should stay together." Fids reasoned.

"Sounds Good." Cooper agreed. "Hey dorks, you two stay there, we're coming to you." He shouted.

"I know he's not talking to us." Stan snapped.

"He is." Susan giggled. "Besides doesn't he always call you that?"

"Me yes, but you?" Stan cracked his knuckles. "I draw the line at you."

Susan laughs some more.

"Okay we're here." Ford said as the group caught up with them. "What did you want to show us?"

"Up there!" Stan pointed further into the distance where a bright glow was illuminating the pinkish and cloudy sky.

"What do you think is up there?" Heather asked.

"Only really one way to find out." Fids said the obvious.

"Guys stay close!" Ford said firmly.

The friends join hands before they begin to move as a group towards the glow. Their journey rose them higher and higher through the space. Rising over clouds that faintly resembled a towering staircase in the way they stacked one after the other. It was a long climb and Ford was beginning to wonder if they would have to turn back before they reached their destination.

Shapes and colors whiz past as they continued their climb but they didn't seem to get any closer.

"Seriously?" cooper huffed. "No offense Pines but this is the stupidest discovery ever. It just keeps going."

"We have to be close by now." Heather insisted.

"Doesn't matter." Fids said looking at his watch. "I'm sure it's almost time to…" He stops realizing his watch has stopped working. "Guys , time doesn't work here!"

"What?" Ford looks at his own watch and sees that it too has stopped.

"This is crazy." Cooper exclaims. "We have to turn back, I could be late for my shift for all we know."

"But we can't." Ford says sounding desperate." We haven't figured out what this place is."

Where are we?" muses Ford.

Suddenly a strange otherworldly voice that seems to ebb and flow like whale song from the ether speaks up. "You are in the time and space between time and space," the voice says, echoing around them.

Suddenly the clouds part to reveal the glow, a halo of light surrounding giant….

"Awe." Susan exclaimed. "It's so cute!"

"I am the Axolotl," says the creature, which was as its name described an Axolotl, all be it, a giant and pink axolotl. "But enough about me. You've managed to find me, so you get one question apiece. Don't waste it!"

*What are you, like, a salamander?" asks Stan.

"I am the Axolotl," replies the Axolotl. "And that was your question. Who is next."

"Oh, I know!" Heather raises her hand. I've got an idea for play I want to do at the theater." She reveals kind of shyly. "Should it be serious or a musical."

The axolotl looks thoughtful and then answers. "A musical, everyone likes a good musical."

"I didn't know you wants to do a play." Susan says.

"I want to a play writer when I grow up." Heather revealed. "Cooper here convinced me to finally take a leap of faith."

"What will it be about?" Susan asked.

"The adventures of this amazing summer." Axolotl answers, mistaking the question for him.

"Oh, that's a really cool idea." Heather said as she gets excited.

"How about you, boy?" The Axolotl looks to Cooper.

"Am I late for work?" Cooper asked without missing a beat.

"Seriously?" Ford asked.

"What I really need to know." Cooper reasoned.

"We have an all powerful creature here, who can answer any question and you want to know if its "Time to go to work?" Ford reasoned.

"Yes." Cooper confirmed.

"You are not late." The axolotl Explains. "Time is absent here."

Ford's eyes widen. "Wait you mean this place exist outside of time and space while also being in-between it?"

"Yes." Axolotl answers with a smile.

Ford looks thoughtful but then his eyes widen. "Wait that wasn't my question!"

"But it was a question and you asked it." Axolotl reasoned. "I did say to be careful."

"Man! I wanted to ask who the author was." Ford mumbled, then his faces lights up. "Fids ask him!"

Fids looks at Ford and bites his lip. "I want to…" He admits…" But…"

"You have another question." The Axolotl says gravely.

Fids gives Ford an apologetic looks.

Ford sighs, "It's okay Fids go ahead and ask."

Fids takes a deep breath and asked the question that has plagued his mind since the very first day he and the twins sat down at the diner with Mabel and his dad.

"What can you tell us about the beast with one eye?"

The Axolotl ponders the question. Then his eyes begin to glow, before he touches Fids forehead with on of his gills and speaks:

"Sixty degrees that come in threes. Watches from within birch trees.

Saw his own dimension burn. Misses home and can't return.

Says he's happy. He's a liar. Blame the arson for the fire.

If he wants to shirk the blame, He'll have to invoke my name.

One way to absolve his crime. A different form, a different time."

Fids suddenly jerks back as if he's been hit by lightning.

"Fids?" Ford asked looking worried.

"I saw…" Fids looks up at the axolotl with a mixture of fear and awe. "What does it mean?"

But the Axolotl cannot answer, they have run out of questions.

"I think it's some kind of free-form poetry!" Heather reasons. "I thought it was beautiful. Maybe a little wordy."

The Axolotl laughs. "None of you will remember me come tomorrow. But it was my genuine pleasure to meet you." He smiles and then with a blinding white flash of light, the children find themselves…back in the forest.

Standing by Bud with no door in sight.

"What happened?" Bud asked. "Where's the door?"

The friends all blinked at each other, trying to comprehend what they had just experience. It was behind comprehension and already Ford felt his mind starting to feel kind of fuzzy.

"Well, did you go back in time? see some dinos" Bud prompted hopefully.

"No we saw a...thing..." Cooper tried to find the words, but strangely he couldn't remember. It was like he just woke up from a dream and time was making said dream fade away.

"Yeah we asked it questions." Stan said, sounding more confident. "I think it was a salamander."

"Yeah..." Ford found himself agreeing, even though he knew the answer felt...wrong. "We asked it about the Beast with one eye." He suddenly pulled out the journal franticly and began to write down the riddle that the being shared.

"What did it say." Bud asked.

"It gave us a riddle and then he touched Fids..." Heather trailed off.

Ford froze. "He showed you something, didn't he?" her asked, looking up at his friend.

Fids was shaking slightly, but he managed to speak. "It-it did, but it's hazy now I can't remember."

"It must have been scary." Susan pointed out, you're shaking.

"Yeah you know something alright!" Cooper accused. "Spill."

"I-I don't." Fids stammered. "it's like when waking up from a nightmare. You know you had one cause your heart is pounding, but you can't remember what it was about..." He trails off.

His friends share a look, and wordlessly they all think the same thing, he remembers. It's just so horrifying, he'd rather not share.

Ford finishes writing down the riddle before pocketing the journal. "Well, if you don't remember than you don't remember." He said talking the lead.

"Yeah our memory ain't that better." Stan agreed, playing along. "I can't even remember what my question was."

"Yeah, it's cool." Cooper agreed, though he still didn't look convinced.

Heather smiled as she took a moment to measure just home much Cooper had grown in maturity since meeting her new friends. Maybe dating him again hadn't been a bad idea after all. "It's okay Fids, we can wait until you remember."

Fids visibly relaxed as Stan rewinds the video footage before pushing play.

"Hey guys, this is weird." Stan said.

The friends huddled around to see the screen and gasped.

The footage of what they just encountered was nothing but a grey screen and feedback noises.

"Hope you remembered that stupid poem, cause we ain't getting a repeat." Cooper stated the obvious.

Ford did remember it, with district clarity, and he was beginning to feel very grateful to Fids for asking it. Sure Crazy Chu had been going on about the Beast with one eye since day one of the summer, But today the gang learn the monster was real. More than that he was beginning to suspect that this creature was most likely responsible for the Author's disappearance. "We need to learn more about this monster." He decided out loud.

"Is he in the book?" Cooper asked referring to the journal.

"He could be." Ford admitted as he started to flip through the pages mindlessly. "I haven't read every page yet..." He admitted. "A lot of it is code I haven't deciphered yet. I'll keep looking, but for now let's get back."

"Yeah these woods are starting to give me the hebegebees." Fids admitted.

"Are you sure you're ok?" Ford asked as the group started on their way.

"Yeah, I'm good." Fids smiled with ease.

Ford relaxed, thinking maybe he was indeed fine and perhaps he had been reading a little too much into it. he shrugs it off and pulls the journal back out to read through it some more.

It's a mistake on his part, for just as he looks away Fids eye twitches and a look of paranoia flashes over him as he realizes something.

They are surrounded by birch trees, the Beast was said to watch people through them.

He suddenly sees the eyes of the enemy on him as a maniacal laugh fills his mind.

He sees a flash of what the being behind the door showed him and shoves the image down HARD! No! It wasn't going to happen, it was NEVER going to HAPPEN! He looked to Ford as he thought entered his mind. He would do whatever it takes to make sure that vision never came to pass.

-To Be Continued