11Hey to everyone! I, Jeptwin, am making a co-story with a friend of mine, Pokémontrainer4700. He is an awesome guy, so please read his stories along with this and mine. But for now, enjoy!
Redding, California, Jason's POV
I had just gotten off a plane so I could see a somewhat-friend of mine. We had emailed each other a lot, and learned a lot about each other, so I was excited to meet him. When I got off the plane, he was waiting for me, with a sign with my name on it.
We had discussed our descriptions over E-mail, so I wasn't that shocked to see what he looked like. He was wearing a striped blue and black unzipped sweatshirt, had blonde hair, and was skinny. I had black hair, was average height for my age (he was older than me, and somewhat taller), had gold eyes, and was lean.
We instantly started talking to each other as we got into the car. "So! This is California! I've never actually been!" I commented.
"Yup. Not what you expected, huh?" Will replied. I looked out the window, to see a view mostly like what I had at home, but with the occasional cactus.
"Not at all. I expected more cacti." I said, after a moment. Will started laughing when he saw the smile on my face. "But seriously. It isn't actually what I expected. I thought it would be more-tropical" I said seriously.
"That's in the south. The north is mostly the same as New York, or Oregon! Or Gravity Falls!" Will explained, adding the second part as an inside joke. Our friendship was mostly forged on same interests, such as Pokémon, SAO, and Gravity Falls. We had full conspiracy chats and inside jokes through E-mail about it.
We kept on chatting about how nice it was in California, until we got back to his house, where I was staying for the summer. I was really excited. When we got out, he showed me around the house.
"We're going to be staying in my room. That alright with you?" He asked.
"Not a problem. But would you mind helping me get my suitcase in here?" I asked. He nodded, and we ran outside to the car. As we pulled my suitcase out of the trunk, I heard something break in my bag. "Ah, crud."
"What?" Will asked, with a puzzled look on his face.
"My new snow globe I just bought probably broke." I complained. "It was a replica of the dimensional rift. Now I have to probably clean up my suitcase."
"Aw, sorry man." He apologizes.
Suddenly, the sky turned red, and a vortex ripped open in the shape of an X. We both looked up in awe, having an idea of what just happened, but not believing it.
"Wait, that's real?!" Will yelled.
"Apparently! But I don't really think that matters right now. What's important is that Weirdmageddon has probably started, and only those who have met Bill before are immune. Now come on!" I yelled, pulling Will towards the car.
He just pointed ahead at a Bubble of Pure Madness heading for us, before pulling me on the other direction. "Thanks. Now come on!" I said, putting on a new burst of speed to get away from the bubble, eyeball bats flying everywhere. As we ran, I looked behind us.
"Weirdness wave!" I yelled over the sounds of insanity. We ran behind the nearest object: a pine tree. Thankfully, due to the laws of physics, the wave went around the base of the tree, missing is completely.
The bad news was that the tree came alive.
"Hey you two." It says to us. "I want to talk to you about getting into my mouth." We then ran away. Because of reasons.
Then at this specific moment, We heard the sound of maniacal laughter. There was a big flash of light, and there was the main antagonist of something I thought was fictional.
Bill Cipher.
"Thanks for opening the rift in your world, Glasses! You too, Icy!" He said, laughing. We looked at each other.
"You deserve a prize! And I know just the thing! Have fun spending eternity in a different dimension! You could get in the way of my plans, and that's bad news, so I'm erasing you from existence!" He explained.
When he said the word existence, he transformed into his six armed black pyramid form, and started spinning at rapid speeds. After five seconds, he stopped instantly, and snapped his fingers. As he did that, I noticed we were both dissapearing. As we vanished, we started screaming, for obvious reasons.
Gravity Falls, Will's POV
When we rematerialized, I looked around, shaking Jason awake. He groaned, and got up, before staring at something right behind me. "Will! Please tell me I don't see that." He said. I turned around, to see the Courdoroy statue at the gas station. 'GRA_ITY FALL_ GAS S_ATION' it read, due to letters falling off.
"Okay. We can't freak out. First up, we need to go to the Mystery Shack. If we can score jobs and living space there, we have a shot of finding Dipper and Mabel, and therefore, Bill." I said. "Yeah. Jason said shakily. We started going through the forest, looking for Mystery Shack signs. Soon enough, we found one on top of the Gravity Falls town sign.
We followed the direction to the next sign, and so forth, until we reached the Shack. There wasn't much to say about it, except that the sight now said, 'Mystery Hack.' Sounds like s game for some reason.
When we stepped on the porch, the door opened revealing the boy in the pine tree hat, Dipper Pines.
"Hi there! Welcome to the Mystery Shack!" He said in a rehearsed, almost bored tone.
"Hi! We'd like to see Stan Pines! It's important." I said to him. "Oh, hold on! I'll go get him!" Dipper said, going back inside. We looked at each other. "He's so adorable!" Jason whispered. "I know! But the show didn't really do a good job of his height." I commented. Suddenly, Stan appeared in front of us. "Hi Mr. Pines! We kind of are completely lost, and we're hoping you could give us jobs in exchange for rooming?" Jason asked.
"Sorry, but I don't really need any more employees." Stan explained. "We'll work for free, so long as we're included in family activities." Jason bargained.
Stan scratched his chin in thought. "Enticing, but no. I don't need any help." Stan decided
. "Okay, Columbia's Most Wanted." I whispered, before we turned around. Suddenly, Stan threw two Mystery Shack T-shirts to us. "Congratulations! You're hired!" He announced. We smiled.
The second we went in, I realized that Disney did a really good job depicting the shack. Suddenly, we saw Wendy working the cash register. "Cool! New employees! So, how's it hanging?" She called to us.
"Well, we were lost without family up until now, so I'd say decent." I decided. Jason nodded. "I assume you're going to be bunking here with the twins?" She asked. "Yup." Jason responded. "Cool." She said, before going back to the cash register.
"Hey Dawgs! Nice to meet you! Mr. Pines told me to tell Wendy to tell you two that He needs your help out back!" Soos called. Jason couldn't break the smile off his face as we went.
The second we got outside, Stan approached us. "Okay. Here are the rules: You do what I say, no hurting business, and Wendy is in charge when I'm out. Don't let Soos near the nail gun." Stan explained. We nodded. "Okay. What are your names?" Stan asked.
"Jason and Will." I told him.
"Okay. Will, go help Dipper and Mabel unpack merchandise and overprice it. Jason, you're with me making fake attractions. How are you with molten iron?" Stan asked, walking towards the tool shed. Jason quickly followed. "The last time I did metallurgy, I made a chupacabra." He offered. "Great! You're in charge of making an animatronic! Anything weird!" Stan decided, entering the shed with Jason.
I went up to the attic to unpack Jason's things, which I had been carrying in his suitcase. It was a lot heavier here for some reason.
When I was done with that, I got some boxes of merchandise out from the closet downstairs, before suddenly getting tackled by something. "Sneak attack!" A voice now definable as Mabel yelled.
When she let go of me, I turned around to see the girl with the sweaters. "So you're Mabel! Nice to meet you!" I replied.
"Mabel, I told you! Stop jumping on customers! Oh! It's you!" Dipper coming from another room. "So what did you have to say to Stan?" Dipper asked. "Just that we wanted jobs. Is it okay if we room with you two for the summer?" I asked. "Cool! Roommates!" Mabel exclaimed, dropping down. "Yeah! Maybe we can annoy Stan together!" Dipper said excitedly.
We went into the gift shop and started unwrapping things, when we suddenly heard a racket from outside. "I don't know what that is, but I love it!" Stan yelled. Soos and Jason promptly wheeled in a metal Weeping Angel statue. "Woah! Mega creepy! I like it!" Wendy exclaimed, looking at it while it took its hands away from it's face. I just took a mental sigh of… Well, not disappointment, but more like 'really?' I didn't have any objections to it though. I'm just glad he didn't make an animatronic bear.
"You made a Weeping Angel? How'd you do it so quickly?" I asked, as it moved its arms in front of it. "It helps when you have illegal levels of liquid nitrogen and kerosene in one place." Jason explained, as it reached its hands out in front of it, showing claws. "It's cool, dawg!" Soos exclaimed. "It looks like it's about to kill someone." Dipper commented. "That's because the actual thing in the TV show Doctor Who does!" I explained.
It suddenly grabbed Jason's arm as he yelled and hit is with a bat. "Is that safe?" Mabel asked skeptically. "Or legal?" Dipper muttered. "No on both accounts! I'm just going to put the Plaque up saying 'don't blink, because it only moves when you blink.' Jake explained, toting it into the other room. "The real things send you back in time. These only grab you." Stan explained. When Jake came back in, Stan closed the shop.
"Okay! I need one volunteer to hang up signs in the creepy part of the forest!" Stan decided, looking at everyone. "Will, you go do it!"
"I'm certifiably insane."
"What does that have anything to do with this?" Stan asked. I reply, "Absolutely nothing."
"Fine." He started pointing at everyone else. "All right. Eenie, meenie, miney, you!" Stan said, pointing at Dipper. "But Grunkle Stan, it's weird here!" "Ugh! This agin." Stan says, obviously disappointed.
" Just the other day, I woke up and my mosquito bites spelled out 'BEWARE'" Dipper complained. "That says 'BEWARB'" Stan commented, looking at it. "But-" Dipper protested. "Just go." Stan said, sighing. Mabel suddenly grabbed Jason and I as we were going to go back to our chores. "Come on. Let's go scare Dipper!" She said, running into the forest. We quickly followed her, before finding Dipper with the Journal. "What's that you got there?" Mabel asked, surprising him and making him jump. He read the first passage again.
"Wow! A real Journal! I hope there actually is a fourth!" Jake whispered to me. "It's this creepy journal I found in the woods. If this is true, then all of my hunches are right!" Dipper explained. "Cool! What does it say about Hydras?" Jake asked, interested. Dipper flipped through the pages. "It says that Hydras are powerful acid-spitting half-dragons that can breathe water, shoot it from their mouths, and breathe fire. I would not want to meet one." He commented. We started heading back, where we saw that Soos and Wendy had left. "Okay. Here's how things work. You two aren't directly family, and will be kicked out and sent to a homeless shelter if Sheriff Blubbs finds out. But since we want you to stay, we won't sell you out." Stan explained, before we heard a doorbell ring.
Mabel ran to get it, and came back with a boy Jason's age. "Cool. Mabel, you got a boyfriend?" Jason asked. "Yup!" Mabel cheered. "Hey. What's your name?" I asked. "Normal… Man!" The guy shouted. "He means Norman." Mabel explained.
"Or Jeff." I whispered to Jake. "What's that dripping from your shoulder?" Dipper asked. "It's jam." Norman explained. "Come on, Norman! Time for our date! We're going to the cemetery." Mabel said. Dipper went up to their room as they left. Suddenly, Stan approached us. "Okay. I only have one other room available for you guys, and it has a single pull-out couch bed. You okay with that?" Stan asked.
"Sure. We're both guys. It's not like it makes a difference or anything." I shrugged. Jason just dug something out of his backpack. "I've got a sleeping bag if either of us feels uncomfortable, anyway." He said. "Okay. Now that that's settled, let's talk about actual pay. I can't just not pay you. It's illegal." Stan explained. "You have 22 identities, are on the run from Colombia, and commit daily tax fraud. And yet you're worried about underpayment?" Jason asked in disbelief. "No. I want to pay you to watch over the kids as well. Plus, I like guys like me, who do their research and aren't afraid of crossing lines to get what they want." Stan exclaimed. "Okay. $10.00 an hour each, plus no charging us for staying here." I decided. "I like the way you think. Deal!" Stan confirmed.
The next few days were mostly average. We met Robbie, who seemed to like us, and became closer friends with Wendy. We also met Dean, Lee, Tambry, and Thompson, who were all nice. Jason seemed to mostly work under Soos as an extra handyman/attraction creator. I simply picked the perfect prices to get the most money out of people as possible without them actually realizing they were being ripped off. I also restocked the gift shop and candy machine. It was actually kind of fun, minus Dipper freaking out about Mabel 'dating a Zombie' to us, which we had to calm him down from every time.
"Dip, don't you think you are getting just a tad bit paranoid and obsessed?" I asked him while trying to solve a puzzle behind the counter. It was a slow day.
"No! I'm one hundred percent convinced that Mabel is going to get her brain eaten by a zombie!" I stop in the middle of my puzzle, and look at him in the eyes.
"Dipper, do you have any concrete DEFINITIVE proof that Norman is a zombie? He limps, he talks strange, but that doesn't prove anything! Heck, he doesn't even have a bad attitude!"
"Bu-" Dipper starts, but I cut him off.
"Look, Norman may not be what he seems," I continue my puzzle. "But only when you have unearthed all the fakery will the answer be revealed." As I finish saying this, I find the solution to the puzzle. "It's actually quite like a puzzle."
"As usual Will, you have an extremely valid point. But I won't stop until I find the truth!" Dipper is going to be in for quite the surprise.
On our fourth day of working here, Dipper had gotten completely obsessed, watching the videos nonstop. Just as Wendy and I had finished taking the golf cart for a joyride, and Jake had fixed the wheel that fell off, Dipper came rushing out.
"Wendy! Will! I need to borrow the golf cart! It's an emergency!" He yelled breathlessly. Jake and I got in. "Hop in!" I called, turning on the engine. Wendy waved goodbye as Dipper directed me where to go. "Glad I got my driver's license now?" I asked Jason. He nodded. The second we drove into the enchanted forest, we knocked down Gnomes by accident, and we came upon a bunch of gnomes (that were total jerks and butt faces.) After Dipper picks up a gnome with a shovel and cuts Mabel free, She jumped behind Jason.
"Gnomes, huh? Well, could be worse." Jason commented. "They're getting away! After them!" Jeff yelled. "How could this be worse?" I yelled. Suddenly, we heard a roar, and saw a huge shadow. "Tree!" Mabel yelled. "I was actually thinking zombies." Jason replied. "No, tree! Swerve!" Dipper yelled. I swerved around the fallen tree, as Gnomes rained down on the cart. Dipper grabbed a golf club, and Mabel used a gnome to hit another gnome. "Glad I left this in here." A muffled, metallic voice said. I looked over to see Jason in a welding mask. "
What are you doing?" I yelled, before a Gnome jumped on my face. Jason aimed his flamethrower/blowtorch/laser cutter at the Gnome, and switched it to Blowtorch. He lit a blue flame, burning the gnome off of me. He switched back to flamethrower and promptly started shooting Gnomes out of the sky with it. One landed on the roof and bit Jason hard on the hand. "Ahh!" He yelled in pain, before dropping the blowtorch and ripping off the welding mask. He promptly slammed the mask into the Gnome until it let go. When it did, his hand was bleeding badly. "Are you okay?" I asked, looking at his hand. "Eyes on the road!" He yelled. Just before we drove off a cliff.
"I told you!" Jason screamed as we fell. When we hit the ground, we were Gnome free, until we reached the Shack. When we parked, Mabel's Gnome bit Jason in the leg until Mabel beat him off with a golf club. I started getting gauze and disinfectant to bandage the bites, while Mabel and Dipper helped drag him to the leaf pile. "It hurts." Jason moaned. "I know. We just need more time." I told him.
"Well you're all out of that!" Jeff called, having the Gnome snatch Jason. "One move and I'll have my friends bleed him dry!" He announced. "So what do you say, Mabel? Want to be my queen?" He asked.
I looked around, and saw a certain something in the leaf pile. I look to Mable, and I indiscreetly signal it to Her. She smiles for a split second before turning back to the gnomes. "Fine Jeff. Come down." Mabel said. "Woohoo! Whoopsie-daisy, comin' through, sorry Schmebulok!" Jeff called as he stepped on Gnomes. "Schmebulok." The deformed gnome said.
When Mabel got down, I noticed that she was moving towards the leaf pile. I smiled for a millisecond before regaining my serious composure. When Jeff finally got up to her, he started putting the ring on her finger. Suddenly, she reached into the leaf pile, and pulled out the Leaf Blower.
She turned it on low, and yelled, "This is for lying to me!" Jeff started protesting. "This is for kidnapping me!" She said, putting it on medium. "This is for threatening us!" She yelled, putting it on high, and ignoring Jeff's cries of pain. "And this is for hurting my friends!" She yelled, putting it on reverse, and shooting Jeff through the mega-gnome, destroying it. I ran to catch Jason as he fell, but didn't get there in time. However, he somehow rolled and landed perfectly, not getting injured any worse.
"How… Did you do that?" I asked slowly. "Three years of flying trapeze training and tricks does that to a guy." Jason explained, dusting off his sweatpants. "So you weren't injured badly?" Dipper asked, confused. Jason suddenly winced, falling on me. "No. Those gnomes have sharp teeth. Pierced right through the skin and damaged muscle. But I've suffered much worse." Jason said, with me helping him get inside. "But you're injured now?" Mabel asked, confused.
"Mabel, honey. I was injured the second the Gnome bit me. But everything I did after that made it worse, and I wanted to make sure everyone got out alright. Now that I can, I want to avoid making it any more severe than it is." Jason explained, as I made him lie down on the couch, wrapping and dressing the injuries. "You're lucky I know first aid, Mr. 'I'm going to push myself past the limit to make sure everything turns out fine'." I growled. "Yeah, well, it did, didn't it?" Jason pointed out.
"Kids! Come on here for a minute!" Stan called. We all walked in. "Okay. I overstocked the gift shop by accident, so you each can take one thing. Now hurry up, before I change my mind." Stan told us. Dipper and Mabel quickly grabbed their items. I looked around, before grabbing a crossbow. "Why do you have these?" I asked. "No reason." Stan said.
I took one out, and grabbed the arrows. Jason dug around in a different box, before finding something of equal interest. "Cool! A blowgun! And minor to major chemicals, poisons, and toxins! I dorm think I want to know how you got this, but I'm totally all over it." He announced, holding it close. The others turned and went upstairs as Stan headed for his bedroom. I was about to follow when I see a small felt top hat. While not the best, it looked pretty good to me.
I put one on my head and look in the mirror, and it looked surprisingly good on me. So I leave 15 $ right next to the cash register and head on up.
"I think it was smart to take the weapons. We're probably going to need them." Jason told me when I came back up, looking down at his blowgun. "Why did you get a top hat?" He asked me.
"Because, top hats are cool." I answer. I then sighed. "Yeah. Now come on, let's get some sleep. While we still can." I said. "Stanford was totally wrong about one thing: trust is important. Dipper needs it if he's going to solve the mysteries of this town." Jason commented. I nodded and helped him to the room, where we changed privately and got into the bed, quickly falling asleep.
Dipper's POV
I wrote down the weakness to Gnomes in the journal, before adding something to the front. "After fighting a Gnome army with someone, you realize that they've probably always got your back." I wrote. "Good night, Dipper." Mabel said from across from me. "Care to turn out the light?" I asked. She smiled, and shot a grappling hook through the lamp, destroying it, and plunging us into darkness. "Good night, Mabel." I said, before falling asleep.
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