Summer with the Pine Twins

Gideon Rises: Part 2

Dipper's p.o.v.

"Look, kids, I lost ok? The best thing is for you to be with your parents and (y/n) you with your Aunt Shelli, she'll meet you at the bus station." "But Grunkle Stan, you're my guardian! I don't wanna leave Gravity Falls! I don't wanna leave you!" (y/n) shouts, hugging Grunkle Stan, tears pricking her eyes. "(y/n) sweetie I don't know if you realized this but...This was gonna be our last Summer together anyway..." What? "W-what do you mean?" "I had promised your Aunt Shelli to look after you until you were better, once you were she was gonna become your guardian again, she just didn't know how to care for you in the state you were in. It's why she visits at the end of every Summer for a weekend: To check up on you and now that you're better..."

He trails off and (y/n) asks another question. "Where does Aunt Shelli live?" "In Maine, I think," (y/n) and I exchange looks that was on the other side of the U.S.! We wouldn't be able to hang out anymore. "I'm sorry kids, Gideon won. It's over..." He walks out of the house, Soos soon chasing after him.

If we just sit around and let this happen, that's it! No more Summer shenanigans with Mabel, no more illegal activities with Grunkle Stan, no more monster hunting with (y/n)...We won't even find the authors of the journals if we go home now! "Alright girls, that's enough! If Stan won't get our home back from Gideon then we'll have to get it back ourselves!" "Gideon may have the upper hand but we have something he doesn't," (y/n) says and I smile as I pull out the journal and we shout "A journal!" "A grappling hook!" Mabel shouts, pulling out that useless thing. "Oh, the journal...Journal!"

The next day the three of us snuck up the property and watched the guards patrol the area. "Alright, the bus to take us out of Gravity Falls comes at sundown. If we wanna stay in town, we gotta get past those guards, make it through the fence and get Gideon to hand over that deed," I explain, and once again Mabel pulls out her grappling hook. "Leave that to Mabel. Wahcha!" I shoot it at a tree and it bounces off, knocking into Dipper before it falls on his face. "Dipper! Mabel! Now will you admit the grappling hook is useless?" (y/n) asks as she helps me up. "Nope." "Ok, what can we use to defeat Gideon?" (y/n) asks, bringing us back on topic.

I flip through the pages of the journal and list off ideas. "Barf fairy?" "Yeah!" My sister shouts and (y/n) shakes her head no. "Nope," The process repeats. "Butternut squash with a human face and human emotions?" "Yeah!" "Nope," I flip to another page and Mabel stops me asking "Woah! What's this?" "(y/n) and I have stared at this page for hours. It seems like a blueprint to build some kind of strange futuristic superweapon-" "Boring! To defeat those guards we need some kind of army."

She states, cutting me off in the process, (y/n) soon gasping as she grabs the journal and flips to a specific page. "Mabel that's it! As much as I hate to suggest it...What about the gnomes?" I smile and agree to the idea, my sister tugging the collar on her sweater nervously.

"From what I remember this is their hiding spot," (y/n) exclaims as we walk through a path in a meadow, Mabel soon asking "I wonder what gnomes do out here alone in the forest?" I push back some bushes and the three of us gasp at the sight before us. Jeff was in a bathtub filled with squirrels running around him as he scrubbed himself with a squirrel.

"Ah! This...This is normal, this is normal for gnomes...Scrub, scrub," We give each other a disgusted look. "Well, well, well, look who came crawling back. Take five Chris. You guys keep doing what you're doing," Jeff says, talking to the squirrels for a minute before addressing us again. "So change your mind about marrying me did you, Mabel? Or perhaps it was (y/n) who changed her mind?" He asks us, wiggling his eyebrows at the girls. I give a low growl as I clench my fists at the thought of (y/n) much less my sister marrying this tiny jerk. "Ew, hardly. We need your help and seriously ew."

"You want our help?! After not only you but her as well, left me at the alter?! No dice!" "But what if we were able to get you a new queen? One even more beautiful than me or (y/n)?" Mabel offers and I can't help roll my eyes, nobody is more beautiful than (y/n). End of discussion. "Her name is Gideon and she has lovely white hair," I tell him and he starts to get excited. "Woah, mature woman huh? Hey Shmebulock! Get my calogne!" "Shmebulock!" He shouts as he runs up with the cologne. "Is Shmebulock all you can say?" He nods sadly. "It's a deal!"

Grunkle Stan's p.o.v.

I sat at the bar in the diner with a sigh. "Waiter, give me a glass of the strongest most expired apple cider you've got." "Sure thing Mr. Pines," Wait...Soos? I look up to see Soos was the waiter. "Soos? What are you doing here?" " Since the Mystery Shack shut down I've had to take a bunch of part time jobs: grave digger, bus driver, really awesome cook," He explains, pouring me my drink before asking "Hey, is the kitchen supposed to have that much fire in it?" I peer through the window to see a lot of fire and I shake my head no, causing Soos to run in and try to put it out.

I let out another sigh as I tell Soos "You're a good man...Child Soos but it's not looking good. This whole town loves Gideon and hates me. If only they knew how evil he really was," He walks over and gives me a side hug. "I'm here for you dude." "The entire lower half of your body is on fire." "Shhh, we're having a moment," He squeezes me tighter. Ok guess this is happening then.

(y/n)'s p.o.v.

We head back over to the Mystery Shack after hashing things out with Jeff. Once there we make a lot of racket at the fence until we caught Gideon's attention. "Give us the deed to the shack Gideon or else!" Dipper shouts at him and he rolls his eyes sarcastically asking "And I'm supposed to say: Or else what?" "Yes you are supposed to say that. NOW!" Mabel shouts and the gnome army takes out the guards that had accompanied Gideon.

Soon the fence was busted down from a deer ramming into it and quickly Gideon was surrounded by the army as we approached. "You're surrounded by an unstoppable gnome army. Now give us back our deed and get off our property!" I demand when Jeff cuts in. "And let the marriage ceremony begin!" Gideon lets out a sigh of relief as he eaches inside his pocket grumbling "Very well I suppose this deed belongs to-" He pulls out a whistle and plays it causing the gnomes to cover their ears in agony. "Huh, whadd'ya know? Works on gnomes too," He blows the whistle again. "Stop, we'll do anything! How can we serve you, your majesty? The most beautiful girl we've ever seen!" We try to hold in our laughter as Gideon shouts "IAM NOT A GIRL!" "Really? But your skin is so soft, do you moisturize or-" "Subdue them!" He orders and the gnomes restrain us.