*IF YOU ARE READING THIS IN THE FUTURE THIS CHAPTER HAS BEEN POLISHED/UPDATED!!*
We've arrived at the debut episode of Gideon and are introduced to the main antagonist of season 1! The plot is slightly altered from the original episode but nothing please has really changed.
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It had been a few days since the whole Wax Stan incident, where a trance murder involved the kids finding out that their uncle's proud wax statue possessions were actually cursed. This resulted into a tense fight to the death that they emerged victorious, and now things were more or less getting back to normal.
The sun was setting on another day in the small town of Gravity Falls, Oregon, and the residents were starting to wind down.
On the front lawn of the Mystery Shack, Stan was up to his regular tricks again, ending his last tour session. Holding up a brown empty sack, he advertised it to some tourists as a wonder that they simply couldn't miss out on. "For tonight's final illusion, we have the incredible sack of mystery!" He told them as he waved it around, before adding, "If you put your money in, it mysteriously disappears."
The tourists, being as stupid as rocks, of course believed him and put their cash in one by one, much to Stan's satisfaction.
"Of course!"
"That makes perfect sense!"
"What a nice man!"
"That was totally worth the drive!"
That was all the people said before walking away, leaving Stan to laugh mischievously to himself.
While he was busy scamming people out of their money, his employees and family were enjoying some good reality television. They were crowded in the living room, watching another strange yet intriguing show. The premise was about a tiger that had an arm surgically attached to its body, and it was really starting to grow on them.
"The tiger was badly injured, but we repaired him, with a FIST!" The narrator said. On the screen, it showed the main character on the show, the tiger himself inside an operating room. Dipper, Mabel, Mason, Wendy, and Soos, all cheered for the show, completely invested in where the plot would go.
But they would have to wait a little bit longer, since after the tiger punched himself in the face the narrator said, "Tiger Fist, will return after these messages."
Before any one of them could complain, it cut to a commercial where two hands let free some doves into the air, like the beginning to a magical movie. Recognizing it, Soos pointed to the television and said, "Look, it's the commercial I was telling you dudes about."
"Are you completely miserable?" Said a man's voice, narrating over a beautiful image of a mountain and sunrise over a valley.
The screen then switched to a man dramatically crying by himself while sitting on the bed. The man looked up and said through his tears, "Yes!" The man then went back to crying.
The narrator then said in a secretive way, "Then you need to meet…" Changing to a different image, this one was much more mysterious and intriguing. It was a silhouette of a person with a question meaning the middle of their body "...Gideon."
"Gideon?" Asked Wendy confusingly.
"What makes him so special?" Dipper added.
The narrator answered his question as if he could hear him through the television: "He's a psychic."
"What's that?" Mason asked, tilting his head in wonder. "You mean like a magic wizard or something?" Today, the boy was back in his shooting star sweater.
His sister shook her head. "No, a psychic is someone who appears to have telepathic powers beyond normal human senses." She then placed a hand on her chin and thought about that statement. "Wait, maybe that actually is a wizard."
That was when the scene that made Soos remember the commercial in the first place came on. The screen switched to footage of Stan Pine exiting out of an outhouse while trying to shake toilet paper off his leg. "So don't waste time on the other, so-called Men of Mystery!" It then paused on the footage and the word FRAUD appeared over Stan
"Learn about tomorrow tonight! At Lil Gideon's Tent of Telepathy!" The credits then scrolled on screen, narrated really fast. "Void where prohibited, no c.o.d.'s accepted, Carla I've always loved you but I never had the guts to say it."
After this, Wendy stood up from her spot on the carpet. "Well, I'm curious." She told the others, wanting to see what this 'Gideon' character was all about.
However that was when her boss walked into the room, looking none too pleased and lifted up his eyepatch. "Well don't get too curious. "Ever since that monster Gideon rolled into town, I've had nothing but trouble!" He said
His beef with Gideon had started when the old man was searching for a parking spot one day. He found a perfect one and was about to pull into the spot. But at the last second a loud honking was heard and Gideon's tour bus pulled into the spot instead, stealing it away from Stan. Being as popular as he was, a large crowd formed outside the bus and began going absolutely crazy. Watching this, Stan growled and shook hisfists in anger. "Gideon!"
"Is he really psychic?" Mabel asked.
"I think we should go and find out!' Dipper said as he stood up as well.
But Stan wasn't crazy about that idea. "Never! You're forbidden from patronizing the competition!" He instructed his family and employees as he slipped out of his jacket and hung it up next to him. "No one who lives under my roof is allowed under that Gideon's roof!" He then stated, shaking his fist.
"Do tents have roofs.? Dipper asked pointed
"I think we found our loophole!" Mason exclaimed happily.
Mabel held a piece of string in the shape of a loop. "Literally! You see because…it's…it's a loop in a hole…"
While the others gave her a blank stare, Soos was the only one to laugh at her joke. "Haha, good one dude!"
Just then, the commercial gave one last and eerie message: "Come down soon folks, Gideon is expecting you."
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PLAY MUSIC: GRAVITY FALLS THEME SONG
A time-lapse of the waterfall and a lumberjack statue.
The scene changes to the interior of a bus. The triplets are in one seat asleep as the bus drives on a long stretch of road leading into the town, running beside it are telephone poles and the sky is clouding and gray, adding a mystical feel. A bus carrying our main characters drives down the road and then out of frame. A second later, a Bigfoot looking creature runs across the road to the trees on the other side. The camera pans back just enough to show a yellow sign on one of the trees with an image of the same creature on it.
The scene changes again to the triplets standing outside of the Mystery Shack, looking at it in wonder and confusion. Then, there is a puff of smoke behind them and Stan appears.
Dipper
He is flipping through the journal in the woods, and studying a symbol in a tree, not noticing a singular and familiar eye staring at him through the dark trees.
Mabel
She is seen flirting with a boy. After a bit, the boy takes off his jacket, revealing him to be the gnomes again. Mabel pulls out her grappling hook and fights them off.
Mason
The boy is enthusiastically jumping up and down on his bed in the attic bedroom, with a pig in his arms and a big grin.
Stan
When a tourist is turned around looking at a shirt, Stan takes the opportunity to steal money out of the man's wallet.
Soos
He is eating a chocolate bar and trying to complete a task of fixing a pipe under the sink. The pipe suddenly bursts, spraying water everywhere and all over him.
Wendy
She is seen cutting down a tree with her family. They manage to succeed but the tree falls down, nearly missing their house. Wendy shakes her head.
Cut to the Mystery Shack crew camping out in the middle of the woods. Stan is telling them a story about a monster in the woods. The campfire gives off enough light for us to make out a creature behind them.
Then we cut to a small camp lake at sunset. There is only one wooden pier with several canoes tied to it. Towards the treeline shore of the lake, there are children playing in the water, splashing each other and jumping into the water off the pier. However further down, a hump appears out of the water, and the faint outline of flippers can be seen under the waves, then the hump disappears under the water leaving behind only ripples. It goes unnoticed by the children.
Another cut shows Mystery Shack property at night. Cicadas and crickets are singing, there is a nice cool breeze, and all is calm and peaceful. The top window at the front of the shack is lit up. Then a low growl echoes through the air. There is something in the woods. An owl hoots somewhere in the dark trees.
Then, the three Pines kids are in their attic bedroom laying around, when they and objects around them mysteriously begin to float in the air. Dipper is the only one to notice it.
The scene cuts to a bulletin board with pictures of Stan over the years. The board is labeled with "Can't be trusted" and "Who is he"
Cut to the title screen.
THEME SONG ENDS
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The Tent Of Telepathy was located in a parking lot on the far side of town. It was a large blue tent, similar to one in a circus, and had a pentagram with an eye in its center on top. As established, it was a top competitor to the Mystery Shack.
It was around seven o' clock, with the sun going down, when Soos, Wendy, and the triplets made it to the tent's location. They were interested in viewing the show that would be performed tonight, and also seeing their uncle's/boss's sworn enemy. The gang arrived with high spirits and expectations, and also hoped that they could learn more about the rivalry between the two businesses.
At the entrance of the tent, there was a man encouraging the visitors to put their money into what was deemed 'Gideon's Psychic Sack'. The man was Bud Gleeful. He was a large, slightly portly, balding man, with long brown sideburns going down his face. His eyebrows appeared to be very bushy. He had a Southern U.S. accent and wore a salmon floral button-up shirt with a collar, a white undershirt, a straw hat, tan pants, and white pointed shoes.
"Step right up there folks! Put your money in Gideon's psychic sack!" Bud ushered. The trick was an obvious rip off of the 'Sack Of Mystery', however the visitors didn't notice and happily followed the instructions. Even the same tourists from earlier did just that as they walked into the tent.
The Mystery Shack gang took their seats and began curiously glancing around at their surroundings. There were rows of benches set up facing a stage with a closed blue curtain. On the stage was a piano and a loudspeaker. In between the rows of seats was a pole supporting the tent, with multiple other speakers attached to it.
"Whoa, this is like a bizarre version of the Mystery Shack." Dipper said as he observed the tent."
"You gotta admit though, they really know how to treat their guests." Wendy said as she gestured around the tent and the popcorn Mason's hands. "This place is nice as hell."
"They even have their own Soos." Mabel commented as she pointed to a man near them, their name tag read Deuce.
Deuce had many of the same features as Soos, but he wore a dark gray ski cap and gray shirt with a name tag. He had a full head of brown hair, and no facial hair. He also has a tool belt and carries a tool box. The man had a double chin, just like Soos, and also has a crooked nose.
The real Soos narrowed his eyes threateningly at his doppelganger while chewing on a burrito.
A few moments later, the lights began to dim and a fanfare played over the speakers, signaling that the show was about to start. Two lights shined directly onto the stage and people began to clap, some having already been here multiple times in the past. "It's starting! It's starting!" Mabel whispered excitedly.
But Dupper was not as enthusiastic as her. "Let's see what this monster really looks like." He said while crossing his arms.
Soon enough, a shadow appeared on the curtain as Gideon himself approached the stage. Loud footsteps were heard from behind and the anticipation was through the roof. The show. Got bigger, and bigger. Untill…
The curtains parted to reveal a little kid standing on the stage who looked no older than ten years old.
Gideon. That was him. He was a short, stout kid with pompadour hair bigger than his head and the color of it being ice blonde. He had an upturned nose, blue eyes, and three freckles on each of his cheeks. He wore a baby blue suit, a black shirt, and an American flag pin on the left side of his collar, with brown, polished shoes. A bolo toe was tied around his neck.
Facing the crowd, he smiled at them and spoke. "Hello America! My name is Lil' Gideon!" He introduced himself before clapping his hands and spreading his arms wide open. This made five doves fly out of his hair and upwards to the roof of the tent. This act elicited gasps and cheers from his fans.
Upon finding out who Gideon actually was, Wendy, Dipper, and Mason all burst into laughter.
"Stan's mortal enemy is a kid?" Wendy exclaimed through her laughter, wiping a tear from her eye.
"What's he even going to do Grunkle Stan? Bite him in the legs?" Mason added, making the boy and teen chuckle again.
But Mabel was not laughing and took kindly to the little kid she was seeing. "But he's so 'widdle'." The girl said in a whisper as she clutched her hands together.
With his introduction out of the way, Gideon moved on to the next part of his show. "Ladies and gentleman, it is such a gift to have you here today!" Gideon said enthusiastically before tapping his chin. "I have a vision, that you'll soon all say…awwww!" He then turned around with his back facing the crowd for a few seconds, before turning around and making a cute face that no one could possibly resist. The audience of course fell for it and did exactly what he predicted.
"It came true!" Mabel whispered.
"What?" Dipper said and raised an eyebrow at her, before shaking his head and saying, "I'm not impressed."
"You are totally impressed right now." Mason insisted and smiled at him.
"Hit it Dad!" Gideon said and pointed at his father. On the other side of the stage, Bud sat and started playing the piano. Gideon then removed his cape and tossed it into the audience for one lucky person to keep. One woman stood up and caught it, but was immediately attacked by others who wanted it for themselves. This included one old lady that began beating the others with her cane.
"Yessh." Mason commented and cringed.
The little boy on stage then began singing to the piano's cheery tune.
"Oh I can see what others can't see."
"It ain't no sideshow trick, it's an innate ability!
"Where others are blind I am future-ly inclined."
"And you too could see it, if you was widdle-ol'-me!"
While Gideon sang the lyrics to his song, the audience moved their heads to the beat. "Come on everybody rise up I want y'all to keep it going!" Gideon said as he held on to his bolo tie. The audience then stood from their seats, catching Dipper off guard and making his gasp as he had kept himself sitting but somehow stood up with the others.
"What the-how did he do that?" He said.
Wendy was also having this same thought. "Freaky."
Gideon continued singing and pointed to an old lady at the front of the audience. "You wish your son would call you more."
The old woman with two cats in her lap said, "I'm leaving everything to my cats!"
"I sense that you've been here before…"
"What gave it away!" Sheriff Blubs said, wearing a Gideon shirt while also holding tons of the kid's merchandise.
"Oh Come on!" Dipper protested.
"This kid can't be serious." Mason said.
Gideon then appeared next to their sister while the people around them continued clapping. "I'll read mine if I'm able, something tells me your name Mabel."
As the boy ran back up on stage, Mabel looked down on her arm where she had written her own name in marker. Okay, she could kind of get where Dipper was coming from now. It was becoming pretty obvious to them how much of a fake this kid was, but he had everyone else deceived.
"So welcome all ye, to the Tent of Telepathy. And thanks for visiting…little ol' me!" Gideon finished his song with a huge celebration. Dancing while fireworks and an LED sign of his name apparently behind him while the audience's cheese rang through the tent. The Mystery Shack could never pull off anything to this scale. Well it could, if Stan wasn't too much of a cheapskate.
Panting, Gideon pulled out his water bottle and took a swig from it, rehydrating himself while his audience showered him in praises. "Thank you! You people are the real miracles!" He called out to them waving before stepping behind the closing curtain, therefore ending tonight's performance.
While the rest of the people clapped and whistled, the Mystery Shack crew just blinked and then looked at each other. Silently agreeing to never attend another of his shows. And with that, they exited their seats to the exit of the place.
"That was the biggest load of horseshit I've seen in my life." Wendy said as they walked out of the tent, following the crowd to the parking lot and headed towards Soos's truck. "And I've seen a lot of horseshit in my time."
Dipper nodded his head in agreement with a chuckle. "I know right? That kid's an even bigger fraud than Stan. I mean, it's no wonder our uncle is so jealous he's making him hundreds more money than him with the same tricks." He then turned to Mabel and Mason for their opinion. "What'd you guys think?" He asked them.
His brother shrugged and simply stated, "I think he's a big hoax too. And the popcorn was dry anyway so it's minus points for Gideon." He then made a raspberry. "Two stars!"
"Aw come on," Mabel protested, wanting to defend the boy from their conjoined bashing. "So he might be a big fake, but did you see his dance moves? They were so cool! And his hair was like..like whoosh!" She said, making movements with her hands to mimic Gideon's giant head of hair.
You're too easily impressed." Dipper told her
Yeah yeah!" Mabel laughed and began poking his face. He retaliated by poking her back, and the three kids walked away poking each other and laughing.
They didn't notice Gideon staring at them menacingly from behind the fabric tent. More so he was staring at Mabel, taking in the sound of her laughter.
Dipper and Mason then looked over their shoulders behind them, noticing that the little boy was staring at them. Gideon then smiled and waved at the two Pines boys. However they were a bit concerned seeing that his smile didn't quite reach his eyes. But Mason hesitantly waved back and continued following the others to his friend's truck.
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The next day came around and they had pretty much forgotten about the performance. Dipper was sitting at the table drinking water from a glass. On the table in front of him was Journal #3, open to a page about floating eyeballs. His brother was attempting to make a new shirt, but ran out of yarn halfway through so he was left with half a watermelon design and one sleeve. Muttering in frustration, he threw it aside to the trash.
The two were happily minding their own business when Mabel came up to the table with some kind of colorful sparkly beads all over her face and holding up a bedazzler gun. "Check it out guys, I successfully bedazzled my face!" She said triumphantly, seeing nothing wrong with putting these jewels all over her face.
Mason gave her a smile and a thumbs up. "You look great sis, I should have you decorate one of my sweaters." He told her before looking at the hump of cloth near the trash can where he had missed. "Though maybe wait until I get more yarn first."
However Dipper was much more concerned for the safety of his sister's skin, and raised his eyebrow at her. "Is that permanent?" He asked dryly, already knowing with her arts and crafts, that it would most definitely be permanent.
"It's called being a genius in our time." She shot back defensively and crossed her arms. "You never appreciate my artistic talents."
Dipper stared at her with an unimpressed look. "The last time I appreciated your 'artistic talents'," He said with quotation marks with a frown. "You covered half of my possessions in glitter and I had to throw it all out." He was referring to an incident in fourth grade when he complimented one glittery poster she made, and woke up from a nap to nearly half of his video games, books, papers, and even his clothes, in shiny pink glitter. Mason has named it The Great Sparkling of 2010.
"Well it's not my fault your side of the room looked depressing as hell." She said with a scoff, knowing what he was talking about. "It was basically nerd central, it needed more color!"
This quickly turned into an argument between the brother and sister, which Mason had no interest in taking part in. So he walked out of the room and towards the direction of the kitchen. As he was doing this, the doorbell rang. "Somebody get the door!" His uncle yelled from somewhere in the house.
Being the closest to the back door at that moment, Mason strolled over to the door and opened it. He was expecting maybe a lost tourist asking for directions, they did get those people around sometimes, or maybe Soos had accidentally locked himself out of the shack again. But what he most certainly didn't expect was to see Gideon Gleeful standing on his back porch.
"Hello there." Gideon said in a friendly way, waving at the boy he only just saw the night before.
Mason blinked down at him. There were a load of questions running through his head, all of them involving this small child. First off, how did he know that they lived here? Second, why was he here? He was a bit suspicious of him, especially after the look he noticed on that pale face the night before, and that he was the biggest fraud next to Stan.
But shaking it off, he offered the boy a friendly smile, not wanting to judge him too quickly. "Welcome to the Mystery Shack, now with fifty-percent more mystery, where we put the fun in no refund." Mason said the shack's slogan before adding apologetically, "I'm afraid my uncle isn't available, but I'm sure he'll be happy to fit you into his next tour."
Gideon chuckled with a smile. "I'm actually here hopin' I could maybe see Mabel." The kid said. "This is her summer residency if I'm not mistakin'?"
Even though his gut told him to be wary of Gideon's intentions Mason knew that Mabel seemed to like this kid. So he shrugged it off while hoping he wasn't making the wrong decision, and turned back into the house to call his sister to the door. "Mabel, your friend is here!"
She appeared at the back door moments later, clearing the jewels off her face as Mason was leaving, gasping in excitement when she saw who'd come to see her. "It's little ol' you!"
Gideon chuckled again. "Yeah my song is quite catchy, I know we haven't formally met but after yesterday's performance, I couldn't get your laugh out of my head!" He said.
"You mean this one?" She asked and then laughed dramatically like the theater kid she was.
"Oh what a delight!" Gideon said before leaning closer, looking around to make sure that no one was near to overhear their conversation. "When I saw you in the audience I said to myself, now there's a kindred spirit, someone who appreciates the sparkly things in life."
This statement made Mabel's smile widened and she puffed her stomach out proudly. "That's totally me! The person-" Her sentence was cut off when she started hacking up something, like she was going to throw up. A few seconds of this and she choked up some jewels, landing on Gideon's suit collar.
"Enchanting, utterly enchanting." He whispered to himself as he touched the jewels that made his already elegant suit sparkle.
"Who's at the door?" Stan yelled, interrupting their conversation and Gideon frowned when hearing the elderly man's voice.
"No one Grunkle Stan!" Mabel shouted back before turning back to her new friend.
That was when Mason came back to the door to see how everything was going with Gideon. "Hey Mabs, what are you guys talking about?" He asked her. His sudden appearance made the small child frown again at Mason with sharp eyes, silently ordering him to not get in the way of things. Mason glared right back at him, crossing his arms and stepped protectively closer to Mabel.
"Just chatting." Mabel replied, not noticing the silent daggers the two boys were shooting at each other "Don't tell Grunkle Stan he's here." She then said, talking about Gideon. "He'll probably try to use the hose on him."
"I appreciate your discretion. Stan's no fan of mine." Gideon said as he looked back to her, shaking his head. "I don't know how a lemon so sour could be related to a peach so sweet!" He added while gesturing to her, his way of buttering her up. Mason didn't like the sound of that. It was becoming clear to him that Gideon was forming a not so platonic relationship with his sister, despite her showing no interest of that kind in return.
However the compliment did have some effect on his sister based on her reaction. "Gideon!" Mabel exclaimed and she blushed furiously.
"What do you say we get away from here and chat more, perhaps in my dressing room?" Gideon offered, being discrete.
Mabel gasped and nodded excitedly. Finally she could hang out with someone who had the same interests as her. "Yes! Makovers!" She said and poked her new friend in the stomach playfully. The boy then took her hand and began leading her away from the porch.
However Mason took her other arm and yanked her back to him. "Hey, are you actually going to go with him?" He whispered, appalled that his sister would so willingly trust this stranger she didn't even know yet. He was getting flashbacks to the Norman incident and didn't have a good feeling about him at all, remembering what happened the last time he had this feeling. "He seems a little…" Mason quickly glanced at Gideon who's eye twitched and once again had that look on his face. "...unstable?"
"Come on," Mabel insisted as she pulled her arm out of his grip. "You know that I can't say no to that stuff. Besides, I need a break from all the crazy stuff that's been happening. I'll be back before dinner." She hummed a tune as she hurried back to where Gideon was, and the two kids took off towards the direction of his house.
Despite the pit in his stomach, Mason didn't bother going out to stop them. He shut the door and trudged back to the living room, sitting back at the table. Should he have stopped her? Should he have told Stan? What if Gideon had more planned than just hanging out? He was beginning to feel like his brother with his much worrying he was doing right now.
Dipper set the journal down and looked around, noticing that one of them was missing. "Where'd Mabel go? And who was at the door?" He asked.
"It was just Gideon." Mason answered.
"Gideon? Why was he here?" Dipper asked and raised an eyebrow, now he was becoming suspicious as well.
Mason shrugged in response to his question. "He just wanted to hang out with Mabel I guess." While part of him still told said to march over to the child's house and break this up as he was sure Gideon was playing an act, another part of him knew that Mabel was really starting to become friends with the kid, and he didn't want to ruin that just because their uncle said to not be around him.
Meanwhile, Gideon opened the door to his dressing room and his guest was shocked at what was inside. There were all sorts of clothes in different shapes and sizes and colors.
"You see something you like, cause I do." Gideon said while at Mabel with a smirk.
"Excuse me?" She replied and looked down at the child with a firm expression. This made him chuckle nervously.
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In the evening, Mabel walked back to the shack accompanied by her new playdate buddy, returning from a pleasant few hours filled with makeovers and cycling through different stylish outfits. It had gone better than the girl had hoped. The two were growing closer and already planned another hang out for tomorrow. She was happy she didn't listen to her uncle about avoiding him, since now whenever she got tired of being around her brothers, she had someone else to turn to.
Heading into the shack, her brothers were busy being lazy in the living room. Mason was watching the television, sitting on the floor with a bored expression, one elbow propping his face, and Dipper was relaxing on the recliner, having his nose buried in the journal again. She decided to have some fun with them with her new look, sneaking up to scare them.
Before she could, the two boys glanced up at the sound of her footsteps. Needless to say they were left speechless when seeing their sister's appearance. She had a load of makeup smeared on her face, her hair was completely altered with curls in every direction and a pink bow in it, and her fingernails were much longer and pink.
"Hey guys, what's going oooon." She said, reaching out to them with those freakishly long nails that made them both very uncomfortable.
Dipper swatted her fingers away from him. Whoa, what's going on with your fingernails? You look like a wolverine." He said.
"Is all that because of Gideon?" Mason asked.
You're darn right it is!" Mabel exclaimed enthusiastically before placing her hands on her hips. "I'm hanging out with my new pal Gideon, He is one dapper little man. And you said that I shouldn't go with him." She added when pointing to Mason and smirked. "You guys were all being Negative Nancy about him. Well guess what? He's a really cool person actually."
"Mabel, I don't trust anyone whose hair is bigger than their head." Dipper retorted flatly and he pointed to his own head of hair. He was really doubting that Gideon was the person she said he was.
But Mabel was quick to defend him. "Aw, leave him alone! You guys never want to do anything girly with me! You and Soos get to do boys stuff all the time!" She snapped, remembering all the times she was forced to sit through video games and Pokémon card battles. "If I feel like spending time with him then that's exactly what I'm going to do."
"What do you mean boy stuff?" Dipper asked as he slightly backed down at her defensive attitude.
As if the universe was proving her point, that was the exact moment Soos walked in carrying a pack of uncooked hot dogs. "Yo dudes, ready to blow up these hot dogs in the microwave one by one?" He asked the boys with a big smile.
Immediately forgetting about what he and his sister were arguing about, Dipper jumped off the recliner with a wide grin. "Am I?" He exclaimed.
He and Soos then ran into the kitchen. The sound of beeping and afterwards hot dogs blowing up could be heard along with their laughter. "One at a time! One at a time!" Dipper chanted.
Mason patted his sister's shoulder for comfort before he went to the kitchen to join Soos and Dipper. "Hey, don't let them get in your way. He said to her over his shoulder. "If you want to hang out with him, then you do that. But just be careful, okay?"
Mabel smiled at him and nodded. What's the worst that could happen?
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The next day came and just like Mabel and Gideon had agreed, another hang out took place. This time instead of going to his dressing room, Gideon took her to 412 Gopher Road. The address was to a cliff where a large building sat upon it. The building was where his family stored their merchandise and the two climbed up onto the roof so they could overlook the town below.
From there they could see the whole town and the valley that surrounded it. It was also a rare partially sunny day, which only elevated the beauty of the sight.
A bird flew over them as Mabel looked down at all of the people mingling in the town streets, looking like tiny dots from her perspective. "Wow, the view from your family's factory is nuts!" Mabel said, holding a hand up to a face to block out the sun shining on them. "It's a good thing we both brought our…"
"Opera glasses!" They both said simultaneously, turning to look at each other through their respective pairs of glasses. The two kids then laughed, enjoying the time they were spending together.
They turned back to the town. A couple of seconds passed in silence besides Mabel humming a tune under her breath, until Gideon set his glasses down and spoke. "Mabel when I'm up here looking down at all of those little ol' people, I feel like I'm the king of all I survey!" The last half of his sentence came out as a very menacing whisper and he rubbed his hands together with a wicked grin while saying it.
This unsettled Mabel a tiny bit. "Yeah uh…I guess that's one way to look at it…" She said with a nervous laugh, attempting to sound composed.
"I guess that makes you my queen!" Gideon then added, back to his regular cheerful tone that he was known for.
Now she was really beginning to feel uneasy. She suspected that the little boy was crushing on her since yesterday, but she didn't know how to tell him to stop without sounding rude. So she tried to brush it off. "What, are you being so nice to me right now! Quit it!" Mabel said exaggerately and playfully poked him in the chest
"I can't quit it, I'm speaking from the heart ." Gideon replied honestly.
"From the where now?"
"Mabel I've never felt this close with anyone. So, so close…" Giseon said as he scooted closer to her, making her nerves shoot up. It didn't help when the boy reached out and creepily stroked Mabel's hair while making noises to himself, feeling the stands run through his fingers.
Uncomfortable beyond belief, Mabel immediately shoved his hand away and firmly glared at the boy. "Whoa, whoa, hey! Do not touch me!" She ordered him then sighed. "Look Gideon I um-" Gideon tried to touch her hair again and she pushed him away a second time. "I like you a lot, but let's just be friends, okay? That way nothing's complicated between us."
"At least give me a chance." Gideon protested before dropping a bomb on her. "Mabel, will you do me the honor of going on a date with me?"
This was certainly not what Mabel was expecting today. She didn't hate him per-say, but she was already having second thoughts about hanging out with him and this was the icing on the cake. First he had touched without an ok, which was creepy in general, but now he'd dropped something that made her feel a tremendous weight on her shoulders. Mabel was searching for a way to decline, only for nothing to come up.
It wasn't just that either. The last time she went on a date with someone she barely knew, she was kidnapped by gnomes. In hindsight that incident probably served as a warning for her to not repeat her mistakes. And she was too old for him anyway. And even if they were the same age, Gideon just…wasn't her type. While she did somewhat enjoy being around him, it wouldn't have been that type of friendship that bloomed into something else.
"A shopping date?" Mabel asked hopefully.
"Mm'mmm." Gideon said and shook his head. "It'll just be one little ol' date, I swear on my lucky bolo tie!" He held onto his bolo tie, showing her he would keep that promise.
Even though she was still hesitant to agree, she let in with a sigh, hoping it would be enough to move on to any other topic but this. "Okay fine. But only one."
"Mabel Pines, you've made me the happiest boy in the world!" Gideon exclaimed before pulling her into an embrace.
It wouldn't have been as weird if he hadn't done what he did next. She felt something in the back of her head and immediately pulled away. "Are you sniffing my hair?"
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When Mabel returned to the shack, she spilled the whole entire thing to her brothers. How the sequence of events had gone down, how it had started off normally, how Gideon's behavior grew increasingly odd until she couldn't ignore it anymore. And the biggest part of it all: when he'd asked her on a date and she had felt so much pressure, that she was worried about what he'd do if she said no.
So the next day she decided that playing a video game could maybe take her mind off the date for a while, even if she didn't like the game that much. "It's not a date-date. It's just, I didn't want to hurt his feelings, so I threw him a bone." She told them as she played against Dipper. Mason sat on the arm of the recliner watching the two play.
"Mabel, guys don't work that way." Dipper told her as he was focused on the game. He then turned to her to tease. "He's gonna fall in love with you.
"Yeah," Mason agreed with a nod. "We take one look at a pretty girl and boom! It's off to 'crush mountain'"
Mabel scoffed at their statements. "Yeah right, I'm not that lovable." She said as she pushed her hair up. She then noticed she was on track to win the video game and put all her efforts on the screen. In the end, she was successful. "Kaboom! Yes!" She cheered, throwing her hands up to celebrate her victory. Despite not caring much for video games, she absolutely crushed her brothers at them.
"Okay we agree on something here." Dipper replied.
Just then the doorbell rang, so Mabel set down her controller and got up to walk to the door. When she opened it, a horse's head suddenly was staring back at her and neighed, then stepped half of its body inside the house. The girl was so startled that she fell on her butt and scooted back with a surprised yelp.
Sitting on top of the horse, wearing a comically tall cowboy hat that matched his suit, was none other than Gideon himself. He leaned down and held out his hand to her, like one of those romance movies. "A night of enchantment awaits m'lady." He said to her with a smile.
"Oh crap." Mabel said to herself, realizing the huge mistake she got herself into her.
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After taking a ride on Gideon's horse for about half an hour, they arrived at the location where their date would take place. The restaurant was surprisingly very fancy for a place like Gravity Falls, and it was also sea-themed. The interior was decorated with props made for the guests to feel like they were in the ocean.
But most weren't focused on their own conversations or meals, but instead on the famous child psychic and his date sitting in the nicest booth of the place. Mabel glanced around unsure before attempting to start a conversation. "Wow uh, I can't believe they let us bring a horse in here." She said, gesturing to the animal that was drinking from a fountain.
"Well, people have a hard time saying no to me." Gideon said as he propped his feet on the table, getting into a relaxed position with his hand behind his head. Behind him, the horse was eating off a woman's plate but paid no mind to it.
The waiter then came to their table and poured Gideon a glass of water and said in a French accent, "Ah Monsieur Gideon, ze feet on ze table, an excellent choice!" He then took Mabel's glass and filled it with water as well before setting it down.
However Gideon did not seem to be thrilled with the man or his compliment at all. "Jean-Luc, what did we discuss about eye contact?" He said as he refused to look at the waiter and held up a finger. Mabel scowled at the boy, about to scold him for being rude but Jean-Luc replied faster.
"Yes yes, very good!" The man said and immediately obeyed what the child said. He straightened up and looked in a different direction other than the two kids. He then started to walk backwards away from their table towards the kitchen.
Mabel picked up her glass and observed the bubbles floating to the top of the water. Despite the date being very awkward thus far, even she couldn't help but be impressed by the quality of the restaurant. She guessed that Gideon had pulled a few strings to make tonight go perfect for them. "I've never seen so many forks. And water with bubbles in it? Ohh-la! Oui, oui!" The girl said with a growing smile.
"Oh, parlais-vous francais?" Gideon then spoke French, looking at her with a smirk.
Mabel stared at him in silence for a moment before admitting to him, "I have no idea what you just said."
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As that was happening, Dipper, Mason, Wendy, and Soos were hanging out in the gift shop. The only adult was also the only one doing any actual work while the others were sitting around waiting for Mabel to return from her date so they could ask her how it went. It didn't look like she would be getting back anytime soon they had to find ways to keep themselves occupied.
Stan then came into the room looking not at all happy. "Hey, hey! What the jackal is Mabel doing next to that greasy pick pocket Gideon?" He demanded and held up a newspaper, then pointed to a picture of his niece and enemy on the sidewalk, holding hands while Mabel looked uncomfortable.
"Ohe yeah it's like a big deal. Everyone's talking about their big date that's happening tonight." Wendy filled him in while typing on her cell phone. The teen then flipped her phone around to show her boss the same news headlines.
This only pissed Stan more off. "What? That little shi-yhat little shyster is dating my great-niece?!" Stan exclaimed furiously though quickly catching himself before he swore since there were kids present in the room. He looked at the paper and growled. He had no knowledge that any of this was taking place and like a protective father he was not about to let this continue.
"I wonder what the new name will be for the power couple?" Soos said as he paid his sweeping, before throwing out different ship name options. "Mab-ideon, Gide-able?" He gasped and his face lit up and said, Ma-Gid-bel-leon!"
"I didn't hear about it." Dipper lied before adding, "And plus, I told her not to."
Mason sighed with a guilt expression. "I'm sorry Grunkle Stan, I probably should have told you what was happening, but I didn't wanna ruin their friendship." He said while rubbing the back of his neck. "Mabel only went because he pressured her, please don't be mad at her."
Having had enough of this, Stan crumbled the paper and threw it down on the floor. He then marched out of the room and appeared moments later, now dressed in usual clothes and his cane. "Relax kid, I'm not gonna yell at your sister, and it ends tonight. I'm going right down to that little skunk's house! This is gonna stop RIGHT NOW!" Stan said angrily, grabbing the exit door's handle then slammed the door behind him when walking out.
They all stared at the door, unsure of what to make of his reaction, though they couldn't exactly blame him for being so upset. "Dude, wouldn't it be funny if that was a closet, and he had to come in and walk out the real door?" Soos asked. The others watched the handy man as he opened the door. Behind it was the great outdoors. "Nope. Real door."
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Stan sped over to Gideon's house in an angry frenzy, breaking multiple road safety laws on his way over. He skidded to a stop in front of the child's house, and the reason he knew it was Gideon's place was because there was a giant sign in the front lawn that practically said it out loud. Once he parked the car, he exited his vehicle and slammed the door behind him.
The elderly Pines then shoved himself through the gates and marked up to the front door while glaring at it. "Gideon you little punk! Open up!" Stan demanded while pounding on the door. He glanced into the peephole and saw nothing so he pulled his eye back. That was when he noticed a sign on the door that read, Pardon This Garden. "I will pardon nothing!" He said and knocked the sign down.
A second after this the door swung open and he was met with the face of Bud Gleeful, who studied the man for a moment before smiling. "Well Stanford Pines, what a delight." He said, giving the man a welcome gesture.
"Out of the way Bud! I'm looking for Gideon!" Stan snapped and pushed Bud out of the way, looking into the house for his arch nemesis but he was nowhere to be found.
"Well I haven't seen the boy around." Bud informed him before placing his arm around the man. "But since you're here you simply must come in for coffee." Bud then ushered Stan into the house, ignoring his attempts to keep himself from entering and closed the door.
"But I came for-" Stan was interrupted by Bud.
"It's imported all the way from Columbia." Bud said.
Stan smiled and replied, "Wow, I went to jail there once." He then started to take a look around the house. If he was going to be here a while then he might well get used to his surroundings. The interior was actually really sweet and cozy, with lilac walls and comfy furniture. Bud stood proudly with his arms crossed as Stan looked around.
The older man whistled low. "Some digs you got here." He then went up to a sad clown painting on the wall and pointed to it, attracted to the emotion it was conveying and the colors used in the artwork. "Oh this? This is beautiful."
As Stan sat on the end of the couch, Bud approached him with a staring mug of coffee in each hand. The man sat on the chair with one of coffee, he set one the other on the table in front of Stan and spoke. "I hear your niece and my Gideon, they're singing in harmony lately so to speak." He said with a chuckle at the end.
Clearing the hospitality from his mind and getting back to the reason he was here, Stan sat up with a frown. "Yeah, and I'm against it." He said before shoving a pillow off the couch. It made a soft thump on the floor on impact.
"No! No! No! I see it as a fantastic business opportunity!" Bud replied as he stood up from his chair. "Yes, the Mystery Shack and the Tent of Telepathy!"
He began leading Stan around the house while explaining to him the proposition forming inside his brain. 'We've been at each other's throats for far too- oh let me get that." Bud ripped down a picture of Stan off a dart board, and tossed it aside before continuing. "We've been at each other's throats for far too long, yes we have. This is our chance to push our rivalry aside, and pull our collective profits you see."
Stan heard a ca-ching sound. "I'm listening." He said with a smirk and then closed the register he was leaning on.
Bud had him at money.
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Back at the restaurant, Gideon and Mabel were wrapping up dinner, with Gideon telling her a story about an interaction he had with a fan. "And so I said, autograph your own headshot lady!" He said and began to laugh.
"Haha…yeah." Mabel chuckled weakly. This had officially been the most awkward and boring night of her entire life. Gideon gave her no room to talk the entirety of their date and even the parts she did have a tiny bit of space to talk between his rants, he just nodded without actually listening and quickly turned the focus back into him.
This was a disaster. It did help that everyone else in the restaurant had been staring at them all night, and she was really starting to regret not ripping the bandaid off earlier and telling him no. She was deep in thought when Gideon spoke again, and she didn't have any other choice than to listen to what he was going to say next. "Mabel, tonight's date was a complete success! And tomorrow's date promises to top this one in every way!"
Her head snapped up to him with a serious expression. "Hey you said one date and this was it." She stated firmly. "You swore on your lucky tie or whatever. I'm sorry but I'm gonna-"
"Hark, what a surprise! A red crested South American rainbow Macaw!" He said and a large colorful bird then landed on his arm.
Mabel yelled in shock and grabbed her live lobster meal, holding it away from the bird. "Two, three, four…" Gideon whispered to the bird and it spoke on command. "MABEL-WILL-YOU-ACCOMPANY-GIDEON-TO-THE-BALLROOM-DANCE-THIS-THURBDAY-" Gideon shook it violently and the bird corrected itself quickly after that. "THURSDAY!' The bird then spat up a pink envelope onto the table and flew off. Add cruel to animals to the list of things she didn't like about him.
This had come completely out of left field, and of course this was the exact moment everyone in the restaurant had chosen to eavesdrop on. It quickly spread throughout the place in excited whispers.
"Aw so adorable!"
"Gideon's got a girlfriend!"
"They're expecting us! Please say you'll go." Gideon said as he held up the envelope. A crowd soon formed around their table, each of them anticipating what her answer would be.
Now Mabel really felt herself in a rock and a hard place. She had been this close to finally telling him to back off but he wasn't listening at all. He said one date but now he wanted more and she expected that he was only wanting more and more dates after. And there were all these people watching them and would most likely judge her shooting him down.
But Gideon was getting way too close for comfort and she hated being pressured. He was stepping over a boundary that he told her he would stay behind. So gathering all the decisiveness inside her, she stood up and stared right at Gideon with a firm expression as told him, "Gideon, I'm sorry. But I'm declining that request. You promised me that we'd go on one date. This was it. And I appreciate your company but now, I'm going home."
She then stood up and grabbed her lobster, then walked away from the table and to the exit. Leaving Gideon alone with his shock and rejection.
As Mabel walked out of the restaurant, she did feel bad about what she did, but she told herself it was only to make sure that Gideon knew his place. They could still be friends and all, though she wouldn't be surprised if she didn't come around the shack the next day. He'd put a massive weight on her shoulder by asking her out again, and now that weight was gone, replaced by a feeling of relief that she'd finally spoken her mind.
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Mabel returned to the shack about a half hour later, feeling much better than she had at the start of the night. Her brothers were at the table playing chess in which Dipper was sure to win. They looked up from their game and at first seemed worried for her, but when they saw her expression they both smiled.
"I'm guessing it went well?" Dipper asked as she pulled up a chair next to them.
His sister grabbed Mason's soda cam and drank from it like she was taking a shot. "It went..well it was an experience. I mean he was incredibly self-absorbed the whole time and I have a perfect lobster now. And he asked me out again." She noticed Dipper about to open his mouth and quickly added, "But I told him no and left after that."
Dipper shrugged at this and went back to the chess game. "Well at least it's a good thing you told him no and you'll never have to date him again." He said when he moved a piece on the board.
"I know, right? Everything can go back to normal now."
But Mason seemed to be the only one concerned for her. "I don't know Mabel, what if he doesn't take your rejection well and freaks out? You've only known him for like, three days, he could be capable of anything. What if the next time he sees you he tries to attack you with his psychic powers?" The boy said worriedly. Gideon was already way too obsessed with his sister and
"Mason, Gideon's a kid. I hardly believe he has psychic powers." Dipper said with a roll of his eyes.
Mabel took a moment to think about what Mason had said. She hadn't really thought about that until now, and he did bring up a valid argument. But then again, Gideon was only ten years old. How much harm could he really do? "Nah," She said with a dismissive hand. "Even if he doesn't get upset I'm sure he'll stop sulking eventually."
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Except Gideon was doing everything but talking it well. The boy was currently sitting at his table in his bedroom, staring at himself in the mirror. His breathing came in deep heavy rags and he was seething in absolute fury.
No one had ever rejected him before, yet Mabel had the audacity to. She turned down the person that could've given her everything she ever wanted. Hell, he would've given her the whole damn world with a hesitation if she asked. But no, the girl had denied it all and for what? Because she didn't want to see him anymore? That she just wanted friendship?
That wasn't the Mabel he knew. Those wretched Pines brothers must have been behind this, must've planted that idea in her head. Mason already thought he was a devil in angel's wings and he wouldn't be surprised if Dipper thought the same thing too. They've been trying to drive a rift through him and Mabel since day one.
"Pines, you don't know what you've done…" Gideon muttered to himself as he grabbed ahold of his bolo tie. A green glow appeared around it and suddenly the candle on his table began to float up into the air, and the light bulbs on the mirror exploded one by one. All around him, the furniture in his room started floating in the air same as the candle
At the peak of his rage, Gideon threw down his wardrobe using his magic, and it shattered into wooden prices. "YOU'VE JUST MADE THE BIGGEST MISTAKES OF YOUR LIVES!" He exclaimed as he did this, sweating like crazy as he glared boys into whatever direction he was facing.
That was when his father burst into the room, hearing the commotion inside the room from where he was sitting in the living room. "Gideon Charles Gleeful, you clean up your room this instant!" Bud ordered strictly.
"I CAN BUY AND SELL YOU OLD MAN!" Gideon screamed back and pointed a shaking finger at him.
Bud was silent for a moment before responding, "Fair enough." He then closed the door and walked away without another word. This was probably another reason why his son ended up the way he did, his father barely gave Gideon any repercussions to his actions and pretty much failed at actual parenting. This led Gideon to believe that he could do whatever he wanted, whenever he wanted.
Either that or he didn't recognize he had an egomaniacal person for a son.
When the door closed, Gideon looked at the dozens of photos on his door shaped into a heart. Every single one of them had some kind of variation of Mabel in them, whether she was smiling or posing. He stared at one that had the three Pines siblings on one, and used his magic to burn away the part of the picture that had Dipper and Mason in it, leaving only Mabel. They had come in between them.
And he was going to make sure they paid for it.
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Now that she didn't have to worry about Gideon anymore, Mabel was free to go back to having fun around the shack. Which was what led to this moment happening right now. On the front lawn, Soos tucked a pillow under his shirt for the game that they were playing.
"Alright, hit me dudes." Soos instructed them once he was finished. The three kids then simultaneously took off running towards the big man and hit him right in the stomach where the pillow was, protecting him from any pain and making them bounce off him onto the dirt. They all shared a laugh and Soos said, "Feels good."
Mabel then sighed and laid down on the ground, stretching her arms out over her head. "Man, I'm just glad everything's back to normal now." She said with a smile.
They were about to go for a second round when the phone ringing from the gift shop caught their attention. Without a beat, the triplets said, "Not it," at the same time, a challenge they made where the last to say it had to answer. This time it was a dipper who lost, so he reluctantly picked himself up off the ground and walked into the gift shop.
The boy took the phone and held it up to his ear. "Hello?" He said to the person on the other end.
It came as a total surprise to him when that person turned out to be Toby Determined. "Toby Determined, Gravity Falls Gossiper!" The man said.
"Oh hey, sorry for accusing you of murder last week." Dipper said sheepishly, also wondering what reason he would be calling the shack for.
"Water under the bridge!" Toby assured him before moving on to the topic of their conversation now. "Say we want to interview you about whether you and your brother have seen anything unusual in this here town since you arrived."
This caught Dipper's interest immediately and a smile grew on his face. "Finally! I thought nobody would ever ask! I have so many questions and theories!" Dipper exclaimed enthusiastically before taking out a pad and pen as Toby gave him an address, and he wrote it down on the paper. "412 Gopher Road? Tonight, got it!"
He then hung up the phone and quickly rushed outside to tell Mason the good news. While he was a bit suspicious about why they didn't want Mabel to come along too, as she had been present for their supernatural encounters, that thought was pushed aside by his excitement that someone finally noticed and wanted to interview him.
Unbeknownst to him, it was all a lie. At Toby's office, he hung up the phone now that the child had fallen for the trick, and looked at the person across from him who had orchestrated the whole thing. There! I did your dirty work! Now it's time to pay your end of the bargain!" He said. The person gave him a piece of paper and Toby gasped, hugging the paper to his chest. "Shandra Jimenez's phone number! Bless you Lil Gideon!"
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Later that night Dipper and Mason arrived at the location that Toby had given them. After walking through the woods for a while, they arrived at a road leading up to a cliff with a building sitting on it.
Mason stared at it before turning to his brother. "That can't be it." He said, gesturing to the building. "It looks totally abandoned? Are you sure it wasn't a prank?"
"That's what the address said." Dipper replied, looking at his pad to make sure he hadn't heard wrong. It wasn't incorrect, but he still was starting to have a weird feeling about this.
The two boys walked up to the front doors of the place and pushed them open. The building was nearly pitch dark inside and filled with boxes and other junk. It hasn't looked like there'd been anyone in there for a long time either. It was just an old warehouse.
"Hello?" Dipper called out, his voice echoing inside the building.
"Toby, are you in here?" Mason asked.
There was no response to their questions, and the two looked at each other again. If there wasn't anyone here, then there wasn't any reason to stay. "Come on, let's go." Mason said, turning around and heading towards the doors. Dipper shoved his hands in his vest pocket and followed him.
But as they did, the doors suddenly swung shut on their own, catching them off guard and they banged on the doors. Mason pulled on the hamlet but it was no use, they were trapped inside. "What the hell happened?" Dipper muttered in frustration.
A sound at the other end of the building made them freeze and look over to it. There was a singular chair placed eerily under a light, and one by one the lights turned on dramatically until the final one met on over the chair.
The chair then turned around to face them, revealing Gideon sitting in it with a smile. As if that didn't make Mason's nerves crawl enough, the child was also petting a doll that was an exact replica of Gideon. "Hello friends." He greeted sinisterly.
Dipper stepped in front of Mason and crossed his arms, not impressed with Gideon's dramatic entrance at all. "Oh, it's you." He said, like he was meeting up with an annoying roommate.
"Mason and Micah Pines, how long have you been living in this town? A week? Two?" Gideon asked while playing with his doll, until his tone became more darker, like a growl. "You like it here, enjoy the scenery?"
"How do you know his name?" Mason asked anxiously. Never had his brother told anyone or even knew his real name before besides his family, and went by his nickname wherever he went. Even in school he requested teachers call him by it. And the fact that somehow Gideon knew made him feel all the more uneasy.
But Dipper didn't seem fazed. "What do you want from us, man?" He simply demanded.
Gideon's dark tone then dropped even lower to threateningly as he glared at the brothers with pure hatred. "Listen to me boys, this town has secrets you couldn't begin to comprehend." He said
"Is this about Mabel? She told you, she's not into you!" Dipper stated.
"LIAR! YOU TWO TURNED HER AGAINST ME" Gideon accused in a yell. He got off the chair and began stalking towards the brothers, his hand clutching his bolo tie. It started to glow green again. "She was my peach dumpling!"
Mason took a step back. "Uhh, Dipper?" He whispered nervously, clutching his brother's arm
"You okay, man?" Dipper said, beginning to see just how crazy this kid was becoming.
Before the boys could even say anything else, they were both levitated off the ground by Gideon using his magic, causing them to gasp in shock and look down at the floor they were no longer touching.
Gideon then tossed them both at a stack of boxes nearby, and the impact made the contents inside spill out onto them. A plush toy of the child landed on Dipper's leg and he picked it up with a fearful face, viewing Gideon in a whole new light. He wasn't just a fake, but apparently a psycho wizard too.
"Reading minds isn't all I can do." Gideon said with a menacing smirk.
"B-but you're fake." Mason protested.
His statement made Gideon laugh and he used his magic to make his merchandise all around them lift into the air. "Tell me then Mason, is this fake?"
Gideon then threw a plate at them and it missed Mason's head by mere inches, shattering and sending tiny pieces all over the floor. Dipper grabbed Mason's hand and hauled him up.
But Gideon's wrath was only just beginning. They ran frantically around the room and dodged all of the crazy objects that their tormentor was chucking at them. It was a nonstop ambush of assorted items raining on them wherever they went, including clocks, books, toys, cups, and even silverware that almost cut them at times.
"How much merchandise can one kid have?" Mason cried as he dodged another fork
His brother attempted to go in another direction, but Gideon tilted a shelf and Dipper rolled away at the last second, nearly getting crushed by it. He landed his back hard against a wall and groaned "Grunkle Stan was right about you! You are a monster!" He said through his pain.
It was becoming ever so clear that Gideon was intentionally trying to seriously injure or even kill them. "Your sister will be mine!" Gideon said and laughed evilly, before he pulled a string on the doll still in his hands and it made the same laughing sound.
Dipper then noticed a bat still in its packaging beside him. It was better than no weapon at all, so he punched through the front of the box and pulled the bat out. He then charged at his enemy while he was distracted by his toy.
Who's a cute little guy? You are!" Gideon said and gestured to the doll. "No you are!" The doll said back.
"Ahh!" Dippee said, rushing towards him. But his plan didn't go as expected, as Gideon noticed him before the boy could stroke, and once again lifted him up into the air along with Mason. Dipper dropped the bat and glared at the child. "She's never gonna date you man!" He exclaimed.
"Yeah!" Mason backed him up. "She's made her decision, stop being a sore baby and move on!"
But Gideon still wasn't listening. "That's a lie!" He said then looked down to his left and saw a pair of shears. He smiled wickedly and used his magic to make the lamb shears float to Dipper and Mason. "And I'm gonna make sure you never lie to me again, friends…"
Suddenly the doors to the warehouse slammed open and there stood Mabel, who when seeing the sight of Gideon attacking her family she glared and marched straight over to him. She'd suspected that he was behind this set-up, and hurried over to the address after she could no longer ignore the bad feeling in her gut.
"Gideon, we have to talk!" She said as she went up to him.
The boy, startled, turned around and laughed nervously as the shears dropped to the floor. "M-Mabe my marshmallow, what are you doing here?" He stammered, not expecting to interrupt his evil deed. Up in the air, Dipper and Mason breathed an audible sigh of relief.
Mabel stopped a few inches in front of him before leaning onto his face with a glare so venomous it scared the little boy. "You really want to keep calling me that after this?" She growled, pointing at her floating brothers. Gideon was at a loss for words, and Mabel used the opportunity to grab his bolo toe and search it away from him, the source of his magic.
Now that Gideon wasn't in control of them anymore, Dipper and Mason fell to the floor.
"My tie! Give it back!" Gidein said, reaching for it in Mabel's hands but she held it out of his reach, and then tossed it over to Dipper, who jumped up and caught it midair.
"Haha, not so powerful without this, are you?" Dipper taunted, rubbing it in the evil little boy's face but failing to notice that he was standing right in front of a window.
Pissed off, Gideon let out an angry shriek and ran at Dipper, tackling him with all his might. This made the tween drop the amulet, and the two boys crashed through the window as a result of the force Gideon used.
"Dipper!" Mabel and Mason exclaimed, reaching out for him but they were too far away. They were too late.
Falling down to the ground, Dipper and Gideon didn't even seem to notice that they were heading right towards their deaths and they began slapping each other mid-air. Dipper was going to punch him when he saw the ground getting closer and closer, and felt the roaring winds around them. It clicked for both of them that were about to splatter on the dirt like jam. Putting their fight aside, they screamed and braced themselves for impact.
But then they were stopped only inches above. Confused, they looked up and saw Mabel and Mason levitating in the air with a green glow around them in the moonlight. Mabel held Gideon's tie up, she was in control now, and used to make her and Mason descend through the air.
When she was at level with him, Mabel glared at Gideon and told him, "Listen Gideon, all of this shit over, I will never ever date you!" She threw the tie on a rock and it shattered on the dirt, sending green smoke in the air. The evil power that influenced the little boy to become what he was now, was gone and never to be returned.
Dropping to the ground, Gideon stood up and cried out in disbelief. "My powers!" He said, but it was too late, he had no advantage over the three Pines kids anymore. Realizing this, he began to walk backwards into the darkness of the forest while pointing at them. "Oh this isn't over. This isn't the last you'll see of widdle…ol'..me!" He whispered as a final warning, planning to make good on that promise.
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Back at the Gleeful residence, Stan and Bud were hanging out once again and signing documents to make their partnership official. Finishing up, Stan sighed and leaned back into the couch. "This is livin' brother." Stan said, and knocked on the clown painting behind him as his new acquaintance handed him a glass of water.
"From now on it's all name brand foods and clown paintings." Bud said as he held up his own glass of water for a toast. The two men clicked their glasses just as Giddon walked through the door with furious expression. Seeing him, Bud laughed and began to speak. "Well hey there, Gideon look who-"
He was cut off when Gideon marched up to Stan and shook a livid fist at him. "Standford Pines I rebuke thee! I rebuke thee!" He said through clenched teeth.
"Rebuke? Is that a word?' Stan asked with a puzzled look.
Gideon continued throwing a huge hissy fit. "The entire Pines family have invoked my fury! You will all pay recompense for your transgressions!"
"You got like, a word a day calendar or something?" Stan raised an eyebrow, even more confused now.
Bud stood and attempted to calm his son down. "B-but sunshine, what about our arrangement with Mabel and the-"
"Silence!' Gideon ordered him.
"Well I see he's taking to one of his rages again." Bud said and grabbed the contracts off the table "Sorry Stan, but I have to side with Gideon on this one." Bud then ripped up the paper right in front of the elderly man, years of fortunes gone in seconds.
Stan stood from the sofa and held up his hands defensively. "Okay okay, I can see when I'm not wanted."
However a second later he grabbed the clown painting and began running out of the house with it. "Stan, I'm gonna need that painting back- Stan! Stan!" Bud said but to no avail.
Stan ran out the house with the clown painting under his arm while laughing. "Try and catch me suckers!" He called back.
Gideon couldn't care less about the painting and stormed up the stairs to his bedroom, mentally forming a plan of how to spend the rest of his night.
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An hour later he was finishing up an arts and crafts session to cope with his own failure. On his desk, there was a miniature model of the Mystery Shack made of cardboard and popsicle sticks, and all of the residents inside, including the Pines family as well as Soos and Wendy.
He put the finishing touches on a tiny doll made to remember Mabel and began moving it around while imitating her voice creepily. "Gideon, I still love you, if only my family weren't in the way."
Then he picked up the Stan doll and took great pleasure in mocking the old man's voice, "I'm old and smelly!"
Next was the Mason doll. "I have braces and wear sweaters all day!"
Losing his mind, Gideon laughed to himself before picking the Soos doll. "I'm fat and stupid and the only word I can say is 'dude'!"
Coming up next was Wendy. "I act like nothing bothers me but deep down I'm stressed out all day.".
And last came the Dipper doll and he did the same with all of the others. What are you gonna do with your precious amulet?" But after that, Gideon smirked and returned back to his normal voice. "Oh you'll see boy…"
Beside all the crafts was an open book turned to a page about an amulet, the same one he had in his bolo tie and used to practice the art of dark magic.
He then closed the book, revealing it was Journal #2.
"You'll see…"
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END CREDITS (SCORED TO "DO IT ALL AGAIN" FROM BIG CITY GREENS)
I got sweat in my eyes
Mason is lying down in the yard of the Mystery Shack on a hot day, not wearing one of his usual sweaters. As the boy is suffering from the heat, he is holding an electric fan up to his head to cool down
Lost a bet and got bit by a hundred flies
Soos holds up a jar of honey. Mabel grins victoriously, holding a game of tic tac toe titled, LOSER WEARS HONEY. Mason stands with his arms out as Soos begins to slather his arms in honey. A buzzing swarm of flies circles him seconds later. He shouts and runs while chased by the insects intothe woods.
I fell out a big ol' tree, hit every branch and scraped up both my knees
In the forest, Mason climbs a tall tree to impress his siblings. He strikes a triumphant pose, then slips. As he falls, he seems to hit every branch on the way down. He lands in a pile of leaves with a goofy thumbs up. Mabel, while concerned for him, chuckles while Dipper just shakes his head.
I got chased by dog, licked by a frog
Mason sprints across the Shack's front lawn, being chased by a group of street dogs. He leaps over the bushes to escape, only to have a giant frog hop onto his face and lick him. Mabel snaps a photo and laughs hysterically.
Got a rash on my legs
Mason sits scratching his legs after jumping in poison ivy bushes by accident. Dipper shakes his head and puts some lotion on his leg, causing Mason to scream from the burn.
Dropped a dozen eggs
In the Shack kitchen, Mason tries to help Stan with breakfast. He trips on Waddles and flings an entire carton of eggs into the air. The eggs splatter everywhere, including on Stan, who glares while Mason gives a fearful smile, holding up a spatula.
Got splinters in seven of ten
In the woods, the triplets are attempting to build a fort with Soos. Mason lifts a wooden plank and instantly gets splinters. He holds up his finger in agony as Mabel pulls them out with tweezers while Dipper takes notes on a piece of paper. "Construction injuries: 1"
And tomorrow, I'll do it all again
The last shot is the triplets sitting together on Wendy's roof spot at sunset, legs dangling over the edge. Waddles is sleeping. Mabel is blowing a bubble with gum, Dipper is writing something in the journal, and Mason is lying on his back with hands behind his head, smiling peacefully at the sky. Just another day in Gravity Falls.
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And that will end the updated chapter four.
Now rewriting this, I feel like I missed out on a huge opportunity for Mabel to take the amulet for herself. It would have been cool to have it be used in their adventures going forth.
We also get the reveal of Dipper's new real name in this story, Micah, which wasn't in the original version of this chapter actually, and I only thought about doing it until now.
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