Gravity Heroes

by fereality

Monday, September 17th, 2012

Piedmont, California

"See you next year" says the teenager as he rereads the note again for the umpteenth time. It's weird, it's only been a couple of weeks and it already feels like it's been a lifetime since he had received the note as he & his sister were Gravity Falls. All of his friends are back there, heck even Robbie signed the note. He adjusted his now ever present lumberjack cap and looked over the note with a wishful sigh.

"Thinking about Wendy again, bro-bro?", His sister asked as she stood in the doorway to his room.

"Nah, well maybe a lil bit," Dipper says as he sits up on the side of his bed. He folds the letter up and places it inside the blue journal with a silver pinetree emblem on the front of it that he got from his Grunkle Ford. "mostly I'm bored and wishing we had been able to stay with everyone. What I wouldn't give to find a new mystery, run across a gnome, or sheesh I wouldn't even mind seeing Robbie."

"Whoa. I never thought I'd hear you says that last one. You are really missing them aren't you." with that she steps into his room. Even though it's still the same room he's had all his life it still feel weird to Mabel to be back in separate rooms after sharing one all summer.

"It's just there we were doing something, we had friends, family, and here it really almost feels pointless. Yeah our parents are here, but really...", he gets up and starts pacing around his room. "I mean I know they loves us. Really this doesn't feel like home anymore."

Gravity Falls, Oregon

Somewhere in the woods outside of town.

Two boys appear to be out for a run through the woods. Though the path they are on seems to split and turn on a dime, they seem to know it very well as if they travel it daily. They duck under low hanging branches and ump over fallen logs like it was nothing. And through out this run they seem to be carrying on a conversation as if they were taking a slow stroll.

"We need to be more careful, we don't have him around to take the blame if either of us gets caught." Said the boy in the blue/white hat with the #3 on the front as he leads them further into the woods, "It certainly was easier to just take our hat off and walk around town while he was still here."

They continued down the path at leisurely speed.

"You don't have to tell me twice, Tony.", Answered his apparent twin with a #4 on his hat, "I nearly got caught in a bear trap during our last supply run."

"I tried to remind you to not mess around the Corduroy's house, Francis.", the one named Tony replied, "Their whole family are of the 'Shoot First, Ask Questions Later' school of thought, well ok not Wendy. Wait you went there just to see her didn't you?"

"No, no we both agreed to leave her for Dipper. I was there looking for warmer clothes, winter is gonna be here soon. Besides I'm actually more interested in his sister's friend..."

*Rustle*

"Whoa, quiet. Did you hear something?", Francis said as he makes a sudden stop and quickly looks around at his twin not realizing his hat got knocked off by a low branch.

"No.", Tony said as he slowed to see what his twin was looking to find.

*Crack*

"Ok, that time I did. It came from over ther...", turning quickly towards the source of the sound and as he turned to look back at his twin he was shocked to not see him, "Francis? Where'd you go?"

Tony spent the rest of the night searching for his twin.

Thursday, October 18th, 2012 around 3:30 pm

Piedmont, California

"If 2a + 3b equals 26 solve for a...", Dipper says as he's sitting at his desk doing homework. 8th grade wasn't as bad as it was made out to be and then next year he and Mabel will be freshmen. Realizing he was talking to himself, he refocused on his work as he began to chew on his pencil's eraser. He settles down to tackle his home work when he heard 'Straight Blanchin' coming from the hallway. As he turns to find out why that incessantly annoying song was now playing in the house, he took a look over his room. The room was mostly tidy, books shelved by subjects and then alphabetically. His TV was on top of his Chester drawers with a stack of B-Movie DVDs that he had picked up from a few used book stores so he'd have some for movie nights with Wendy the next time he was up in Gravity Falls.

"Got it.", Mabel said to no one in particular especially since it was her phone that was ringing.

"Hey Soos, wassup dude?", she said as she answered the phone, "Whoa, whoa, whoa, slow down man." She felt the blood drain from her face as she finally heard what her friend was saying. "What do you mean they found Dipper turned into solid stone? I thought we got rid of the lingering eyebats before we left Gravity Falls?"

Suddenly she realized what she had said and rushed towards Dipper's room, "Wait a minute! Dipper! Dipper! Where are you?", she yelled as she got closer to his bedroom door.

Hearing her yelling for him, Dipper dropped what he was doing and ran towards his door, "Whoa sis, what's wrong?" Looking like she had seen a ghost he grabbed her to try and calm her down.

"Oh lord, you're safe. Soossaystheresastoneyou..." Mabel rambled on not even trying to take a breath as she tried to relay what she had just had just heard.

"Slow down and take a deep breath." He told his panicking sister as he softly shakes her, as she listens to his request, "What has gotten you so worked up. You haven't had too much candy today, have you?"

"I'm talking to Soos and he says that Manly Dan and some other lumberjacks found you out in the forest turned to stone. And no I haven't, I've only had 3 bags of sour gummy squids."

"What, here give me that," he says as he grabs the phone from her hands and puts it up to his ear. "Alright Soos, tell me exactly what's going on."

Mystery Shack

Gravity Falls, Oregon

"Dude, it's you! Dawg, I'm so glad to hear your voice.", Soos tears up as he looks over the people gathered at the Shack, "Dan was out in the woods gathering up some some of the fallen logs to start getting ready for an up coming bonfire, when he came across a shredded blue & white hat laying out in his path. He, he thought it was Wendy's..."

Soos had to pull the phone away from his ear as loud high pitch cracking voice asking, "She-e's o-k, right?", he looked over towards Wendy and saw she was already up on her feet and heading towards him.

"I'm good," Wendy huffed half laughing, half crying as she wrenched the phone out of Soos's large hands. Quieter she says, "I was worried sick about you, you doof."

Soos calmly takes the phone back, "As I was saying Dipster, Dan followed the path the hat was on and finally came across what he thought was a carved statue of you. He brought it to the shack to see if we wanted to add it to the displays thinking on of our woodland friends had carved it and to check on Wendy."

Soos took a deep breath and continued, "Once he got it here, we looked it over and we noticed the work was too smooth. There were no chisel marks or anything. Then Wendy noticed something she said you had shared with her and even with most of the eyebats gone, we were worried you had came back for some reason and got caught. Heck, we even tried your phone and didn't get an answer. We were all scared, dawg."

Soos walked over to Melody and gave her a quick hug as Wendy received a surprisingly gentle hug from her father.

Piedmont, California

'Wendy was worried about me, I wonder what she saw? Wait a minute that's right they said he didn't have a hat, she must have seen my birthmark.' Dipper thought as he processed what Soos was telling him.

"We've been either home or at school since the bus dropped us off, Soos. As for my phone, I must've forgotten to take it off of silent after school.", Dipper replied after checking his phone, while pacing around his room. He wished he was up there to help comfort his friends, nah his family, in Gravity Falls.

"What exactly is going on up there, Dipper?", Mabel asked after getting tired of listening to only one side of the conversation, "Com'on broseph, I'm only getting half of the info here.", And with that she tries to take the phone back from him.

Signaling Mabel to hold off and mouthing that he'd tell her in a moment he turned his attention back to the conversation he was having with Soos, "Have you told Stan or Ford about this yet?"

Back at the Shack

"Nah, dude. Last I heard from them they were just reaching the general area they were gonna be checking out. We wanted to check on you before we worried them. You know both Stan and Ford would've dropped everything and rushed back here if this was really you, dawg.", Soos said in much calmer voice. He turns and again realizes Wendy is standing right next to him.

Wendy again takes the phone from Soos, "Tell you what Dip, we'll start looking around here to see what we can find out. I'll tell the gang to stay out of the woods for now, or at least not to go in without being in pairs, so this hopefully won't happen to someone else." She listens for a moment and responds, "Yeah, we pass it on to Geoff so he can pass it on to the rest of the wood dwellers." She then walks slightly away from everyone else and whispers, "Call me later tonight, I really need to talk to you. Ok?"

Piedmont, California

'Whoa, she wants to talk to me alone. Ok play it cool here Dipper.' he thinks after he hears her voice.

"Sure, around 9 ok?", he says back to her and he could almost hear her smile. "Tell everyone we'll hit the library tomorrow to see if we can come up with anything that might be able to do this. Maybe some one can check the library in town and maybe the lair of the Blind Eye Society. I'll also see if there is anything mentioned in the pages we found that Grunkle Stan had photocopied from Journal #3. Also tell Soos we'll call again tomorrow whether we come up with anything or not. I'll talk to you later. Tell everyone bye for us."

"Waddles says bye also.", Mabel yells loud enough to be heard over the phone.

After he hangs up the phone and giving it back to Mabel, he turns towards her and starts to explain things to her (leaving out that Wendy wants to talk to him alone).

Well all this is my return to Fan Fics. Really this is the first thing I've wrote in over 6 years. I fell in love with Gravity Falls after the premier and have watched the whole series multiple times over now. I'm hoping I haven't went too ooc for the characters. This is hopefully gonna be a long fic but I'm gonna at least have 3-5 chapters. It's definitely a Wendip and at least freindship Mabcifica. I'd also like to give a shout out to EZB, SuperGroverAway, ddp456, & Popcat131. It was their stories that made me want to get back into writing and to want to start with Gravity Falls. Please check out their stories if you haven't already. Please review. I'm always open to constructive and helpful criticism, though if you're gonna troll please move on.

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