Hello everyone, and I know you're surprised, or not, about a new story. This is the first Gravity Falls story that I'm doing, and it is a co-written story, and is one of the longest chapters we've written. I also figure that it's time for a Gravity Falls crossover with Highschool DxD, but I also realize that the harem route would be hard with the limited amount of girls in Gravity Falls, or at least female characters. So, the two of us have decided to do something unusual and bring in characters from Anime and Manga, as well as other series that are related to Disney, or could appear on Disney despite being on another channel. Overall, I hope you enjoy this new story, but I will warn you that this chapter won't really diverge from canon that much. It'll be later chapters that we'll see more major changes.

Disclaimer: I do not own Highschool DxD or Gravity Falls. Neither does my partner, otherwise one of us would be rich and we wouldn't be writing fanfiction.

~Tourist Trapped~

Ah summer, the time of leisure, fun, cookouts, and taking her easy...unless you're me.

A golf cart shot sped through the forest with two tees driving it, screaming as they drove off. One of the kids was a boy in a brown baseball cap, blue vest, orange shirt, and brown hair while the girl with long brown hair and no braces and a fairly sizeable bust, was wearing a large sweater struggling not the vomit. Behind them there was the sound of something big moving through the woods and several pine trees getting knocked over. A shadow showed over them as the creature chasing them got closer.

My name is Dipper Pines Sitri, and the girl about to puke is my twin sister Mabel. I bet you're probably wondering why we're in a golf cart fleeing from a creature of unimaginable horror.

The creature grabbed the trunk of a tree and threw it. It crashed into their path and Dipper as to serve to avoid it. The frame freezes as they screamed.

Let me assure you there is a perfectly good, logical explanation for this, it's just not very believable at first. First off, I want to clear something right off the bat…Mabel and I aren't human. We are actually devils, half-devils to be technical. And to explain why we are here I have to give a short back-story of everything else.

You see angels, devils, fallen angels, heaven, and hell are real. And a long time ago there was a big war, much bigger than the last two world wars. The Great War, as it's called or the Armageddon was fought between the devils, angels and fallen angels, and it was so big that even though it started like thousands of years ago, it's still technically going on. I say technically because due to how many people died, the three factions called a cease-fire so they can rebuild, regroup and gain their numbers back. That cease-fire is still going on to this day.

Okay, so devils aren't exactly the pure evil steal your soul stereotype that you might have believed, but I'm not going to lie and say the whole race are all kittens, sunshine, and rainbows. Devils gain power by fulfilling the desires and wishes of humans, like getting experience from quests in RPGs. And that's how dad met our mom…and there's a joke in there somewhere.

So long story short, and to avoid thinking of my parents having sex, she had us. Now mom's a pretty high-ranking devil in the Underworld hierarchy, so we were raised both in the Underworld and the human world. The reason I said that we were half-devils earlier was that dad was still human and died a few years ago due to some form of heart failure, it was really bad. Mom's been taking care of us, but still lets us stay in the human world from time to time. Right now she wants to send us to this really fancy school in Japan called Kouh Academy where her younger sister, our aunt, is currently attending. The good news is that it has a really good curriculum and a college, but the bad news is that it's an all girls' school. However, it is going into a transition to become co-ed.

So mom decided it'd be a good idea to get some fresh air, and have a bit of freedom by shipping us off to a sleepy town in Oregon called Gravity Falls to stay with our Great Uncle Stan. Grunkle Stan, as we call him, is our dad's uncle, and he already knows about us being devils because of contracts from the past, so at least we don't have to hide any projects or our magic.

Anyways, Grunkle Stan turned his house into some sort of Tourist Trap called the Mystery Shack. The real mystery is why anyone would come, especially with cheesy attractions like the Sascrotch. And guess who had to work there when mom wasn't visiting?

So it looked like it was going to be a boring summer until one day…

"He's looking at it." Mabel said as she looked at a boy around her age with a great intensity, the boy in question didn't have anything that really stood out, other then a card.

"Do you like me: Yes, Definitely, Absolutely?" The random boy read, as he was confused at the choices.

"I rigged it."

"Mabel, I know you're in that boy crazy stage, emphasis on crazy, but do you have to flirt with every guy you meet?" Dipper was of course referring to the instances of her trying to flirt with people, one with a turtle and she said she liked turtles too, one where she claimed to be the girl of a boy's dreams, and then flirting with an older teen employee of a mattress store, scaring the poor guy off. Mabel just rolled her eyes a bit at her brother.

"Come on, this is the first chance to get a summer romance without mom, and I wouldn't be surprised if the man of my dreams walked into the room right now." Someone up in Heaven must've heard her, and decided to prank her, as just when she finished, Grunkle Stan walked in with a few signs. Mabel blanched as Dipper decided to chuckle a bit at the very good timing of Stan.

"Alright, Wendy, I need you to go hammer some signs in the spooky part of the forest." Stan looked towards the cash register, and the teenage girl working there.

"I would but I can't quite reach." Wendy Corduroy, the flannel and denim wearing attractive redheaded girl working the register while reading a magazine, stated while making little to no effort to actually grab the signs, just reaching out.

"Alright, any volunteers?" Stan decided to ask only for Mabel to say 'not it.'

"Also not it." Came the voice of a man in his late twenties or so wearing a shirt from the Mystery Shack with a baseball cap, in addition to being large in build as well as wearing a large shirt with a question mark.

"I didn't ask you Soos." Stan addressed Soos, the Mystery Shack handy-man, as the guy was finishing fixing up a shelf.

"Alright, you, go hammer these signs outback for me." Stan handed the gear to Dipper. He managed to catch it, but wasn't too sure about it.

"Wait, why do I have to go? Besides, whenever I go in there I feel like I'm being watched. Look, my mosquito bites are even spelling out 'beware'." Dipper showed the mosquito bites in question.

"That says bewarb." Dipper looked at the claim Stan made, and it was true that it did indeed spell bewarb. "Look, creepy stories are part of gift shop lore drummed up by guys like me to sell merch to guys like that." Stan pointed to a customer who was having a great time looking at a bobble head of Stan. "So quit being so paranoid and get going."

So yeah, I had to work there with Mabel during the summer. Mom didn't know about it, but I thought she would probably agree if Stan signed a contract. Of course, this was met a bit differently between me and Mabel. My sister tended to look on the bright side of things, while I had a bit of trouble coping. Now I'm just hammering signs in the spooky part of the forest. Fun right?

"Stupid uncle," Dipper muttered to himself annoyed. "Who would even see these signs anyways?"

Dipper placed another nail to a tree and hammer the nail in so he could place the sign. He was surprised when the nail didn't go in and the sound of metal clanging was heard. "Huh?" Dipper muttered before he lowered the nail and tapped the side of the tree twice with the hammer. The tree clanged again, and Dipper dropped the hammer. He ran his hand onto the tree, feeling that it was metallic and cold to the touch. He ran his hand to try and figure this out before catching the edge of a door. When he opened it, he found a small compartment that held a large amount of dust and cobwebs. In the center of the compartment was some sort of control box with several switches. Curiousity peeked in him, and Dipper flipped one of the switches, but nothing happened. He flipped the second one heard something opening behind him. He turned to see the ground opened up and revealed a secret door. Dipper walked over and peeked inside to see more dust and cobwebs but also a book. Dipper lifted it out and brushed the dust off. The book held no title but showed a large golden hand with six fingers in the center of the cover that had the number 3 inked on it.

Curious about the book Dipper opens it up and started to read. "It has been ten years since I began studying the strange and wondrous mysteries of Gravity Falls!" Dipper was excited seeing that he had proof for his uncle and that he wasn't crazy. Dipper flipped through the pages to see details entries and illustrations of different creatures and discoveries. Flipping to a later entry Dipper noticed a change in the writing style as if rushed. "My suspicions have been confirmed: I'm being watched. I must hide my findings before he finds them. Remember in Gravity Falls there is no one you can trust: Trust No One!"

Dipper closed the book concern, as the last three words were underline. He wondered what happened to the author and what he meant, but his thoughts were interrupted. "Hello!"

Dipper screamed and turned to see his sister looking over the fallen tree he was leaning against to read. "Mabel! Don't do that." Dipper scowled.

"What you got their bro-bro?" Mabel asked not listening.

"Nothing!" Dipper quickly said hiding the book behind his back.

"Nothing!" Mabel mocked in the same before she blew a raspberry. "Like you're not going to tell me."

Dipper was quiet, looking at his twin before he noticed the goat, which he had found on his bed when he first arrived, was trying to nibble off the book. He sighed and held the book where she can see it. "Let's go somewhere more private."

"Grunkle Stan thought I was being paranoid, but this book is proof!" Dipper said as he paced in front of Mabel in the living room of the attached home of the Mystery Shack.

"It's not like he doesn't know about magic or anything. In fact, he's probably had more experience with devils and magic then most people." Mabel concluded as Dipper started flipping through the journal itself. He was engulfed in what the Journal had to say about things.

"Yeah, but this is a bit bigger then a contract to go get something from the store. The author was writing about a secret dark side of Gravity Falls, and after a while the writing stops, like he vanished off the face of the earth."

"While that's cool and all, but it's time to spill the beans." Mabel then spilled a can of beans over after he initial reply, "this girl's got a date."

"You mean in the half-hour I've been gone you already found yourself a boyfriend?" Dipper was a bit confused, it should've taken longer, considering she did scare off that one employee from the Mattress King store, but how could she have gotten a date that quickly?

"I guess I'm just irresistible." The doorbell then rang as Mabel finished the comment, before volunteering, "I'll get it!"

Dipper just decided to get back to reading the journal, more interested in the research and how close it is to the truth. "What ya reading there slick?"

Dipper was surprised by Grunkle Stan's appearance, and remembered to not trust anyone from Gravity Falls, or at least from the general age group, and tried to hide the journal. "Oh, I was just catching up on, Gold Chains for Old Men magazine?"

"That's a good issue." Stan said while Dipper showed his confusion at the fact that he grabbed one of the magazines that Stan had, and now he just wished he said it was some underworld book he recently got. Of course soon Mabel was entering the main TV room with a boy that looked like he had pasty skin, was wearing a black hoodie with what looked like part of a branch sticking out of it, and had a red substance on his cheek.

"Hey guys, I want you all to meet my new boyfriend, we met at the cemetery. Say hi!" Mabel was happy that she had a summer romance to work with.

"S'up?" The boy said with a sort of forced teen voice. This didn't really sell the two boys as they looked at the stranger.

"What did you say your name was?" Stan asked, wanting to at least determine whom it was, if only to direct the twins' mother to him if he did something that would hurt her. Of course, whoever this guy was would be lucky if Stan got him first, since if the twins' mother got hold of him...it would be difficult to survive someone who had the power of a frozen nuclear warhead.

"Um, normal...man!"

"He means Norman." Mabel said, before feeling his arm for muscle and commenting on it.

"Are you bleeding?"

"It's jam." Norman answered Dipper's question, and Mabel left, after mentioning that she'll be hanging with Norman a bit.

Something didn't feel quite right about Norman, and I felt it through his magic signature. I guess should explain that those with supernatural abilities, like magic, can sense another being's magic. It's basically an aura that we can see that tells about things such as dishonesty or species, but really good magic users can hide their magic auras from others. Either way, I decided to consult the journal.

"Known for their pasty skin and bad attitudes, these creatures are often confused for teenagers. Beware of Gravity Falls nefarious undead!" Dipper saw the picture was an exact, or at least near exact copy, of Norman, and even imagined him saying S'up, "ZOMBIE!"

Dipper's yell had echoed a bit with Stan in the bathroom and hearing it, "Did I hear somebody say crombie? Crombie? Is that even a word?" Stan then stared into the mirror, "You're losing your mind."

Dipper looked outside with worry as his sister was just sitting on a picnic table, vulnerable to being eaten alive, but felt some relief when Norman just managed to a necklace of daisies around her neck. "Is my sister really dating a zombie?"

"It's a dilemma to be sure." Soos said as he finished fixing/replacing a lightbulb.

Dipper screamed again from the shock but recovered quickly. "Soos, you've seen Mabel's boyfriend right? He has to be a zombie."

Soos hummed and tabbed his chin before he asked, "How many brains did you see this guy eat?"

Dipper slumped his shoulders, "Zero."

The handy man nodded before he suggested, "Can't you sense if he's a zombie with magic or something?"

"I felt something, but I don't know if it's a zombie's" Dipper explained, "Beside a good magic user can hide their magical aura."

"Dude I believe you. I'm seeing weird things all the times. I'm pretty sure the mailman's a werewolf." Soos informed him, and recalling the local mailman who was very hairy. "But you gotta have evidence. Otherwise people will be thinking you're a major league coo-coo clock."

Dipper sighed. "As always Soos, you're right."

"My wisdom is both a blessing, and a curse." Soos explained with a knowing look in his face.

"Soos! The portable toilets are clogged again!" Stan yelled from somewhere downstairs.

"I am needed elsewhere," Soos said adjusted his hat. Soos then started to walk backwards dramatically until he was out of the room.

Dipper however looked determined.

My sister could be in trouble, I had to get some evidence.

Dipper spent the remainder of the day spying on Mabel and her date. He watched as Norman was always stiff and slow to react to things. Such as when he was hit in the head with a Frisbee Mabel threw and he just fell forward a few seconds later. He was also unsteady as he moves such as a few times he walks and even does crazy things like break through a window to open the door from the other side to allow Mabel to get into a dinner. However, it was seeing Norman fall into a grave and pop out again did Dipper seemed to be convinced.

I had seen enough.

So the next day Mabel was getting ready for a new date. Dipper walked in to finally talk to her, "Mabel we need to talk about Norman."

"Isn't he the best?" Mabel asked turning around, "look at this smooch mark he gave me."

Mabel turned her head to show a large mark on her cheek. Dipper screamed. "Mom is going to kill him!"

"Oh relax I'm kidding," Mabel explained. "That was just an accident with a leaf blower."

(Flashback)

"Kissing practice!" Mabel cried as she turns the leaf blower on to suck and place a large photo with the mouth cut out over the hole where it stuck. Mabel leaned over to kiss the 'mouth' but the leaf blower however sucked the photo inside the machine, leaving Mabel exposed to get sucked into the machine tube. She struggled and smacked the leaf blower as her mouth was covered to prevent her from calling for help.

(Flashback ends)

"That was fun," Mabel mused at the memory.

Dipper tried to get Mabel back on track "Mabel, I don't think Norman is what he seems."

Mabel gasped excitedly "Do you think he's a familiar, or better yet a vampire?"

"No Mabel." Dipper got the journal out and open up to a page and show her, "Sha-bam!"

Mabel cried out, "Gnomes!?"

Dipper realized he was on the wrong page. "Oh I'm sorry," he flipped to the correct page, "Sha-bam!"

"A zombie?" Mabel asked not amused, "That's not funny Dipper."

"I'm not joking," Dipper explained putting away the journal. "It all adds up! The bleeding! The limping! He never blinks! Have you ever noticed that?"

"Maybe he's blinking when you're blinking?" Mabel suggested.

"Mabel, remember what the book said?" Dipper asked. "Trust no one."

"Then just trust me." Mabel said before she happy put on some star earrings.

"Mabel!" Dipper said grabbing his twin's shoulders and shook her, "he's going to eat your brains!"

However, Mabel had enough, "Dipper listen to me. Norman and I are going on a date at five o clock, and I'm going to be adorable," here she pokes Dipper in the chest forcefully causing him to step back, "And he's going to be dreamy," Another poke this time causing him to get out of the room. "And I'm not going to let you ruin it with one of your conspiracies!" and with this she slammed the door, ending the conversation. And leaving the house with Norman, who commented on how her shirt was shiny.

Dipper just sighed and sat down against the door, "What am I going to do?"

He then looked at the video evidence he had collected and sighed, "Mabel's right, I don't have any real evidence. I guess I was just paranoid about...what the!?"

It was then that Dipper noticed something in one part of the video: Norman's hand fell off and he reattached it. Dipper had to jump out as he had proof! "Ah-ha! I have proof. Oh no, Mabel!"

"Finally, we're alone." Mabel and Norman had gone off into the deeper part of the woods as the two had a date, and Mabel was hoping for the best, as she did feel a touch of the supernatural as well, even if she didn't get as paranoid as Dipper.

"Yeah, alone." Norman started off, looking a little serious, but then again it was hard to tell. "Look, Mabel, there's something I gotta tell you."

"You can tell me anything." Mabel did say, but she was repeating in her head for Norman to be a vampire. 'Please be a vampire! Please be a vampire!' Was the thought as Norman continued what he was saying.

"Okay, just don't freak out. Keep an open mind." It was then that Mabel's eyes widened as Norman took his clothes off. The shock was definitely a case of disappointment as instead of a dark and hunky vampire, he was a bunch of Gnomes stacked on top of each other with fake arms and hands. "Is this weird, too weird? Okay, first off we're Gnomes. Get that out of the way."

Mabel just sat down at the fact that her hopes of dating a hot vampire were crushed by a group of minor fairies, but she still listened to Norman. "Anyway, I'm Jeff, and these guys are Carson, Steve, Mike, and I always forget your name."

"Schmebulok." Said the last Gnome as Jeff snapped his fingers.

"Right, Schmebulok. Anywho, us Gnomes have been looking for a new Gnome queen." As Jeff took a pause, the other Gnomes chanted queen for a bit, while making grabby motions with their hands towards Mabel. "So, I have a question to ask. Will you join us in holy matrignomy, matri-matrimony? Blargh, I can't talk today."

Mabel thought a bit after Jeff and his gnomes made a bow and opened a box that had a crystal ring, not an expensive crystal, like any adamant stone like diamond or rubies, but a simple crystal that anyone could've picked up in the forest. Her fantasy was ruined, and she certainly wasn't expecting a marriage proposal. "Look, I'm a girl, who's also a devil, and your gnomes, and it's like 'wha?' So I have to say no."

"Didn't know about that Devil part, but we'll never forget you Mabel." Mabel smiled that Norman was being a good sport about the break up that was until he added, "Because we're going to kidnap you."

Dipper couldn't just teleport to where his sister was, since teleporting, while a common skill among Devils, was still risky without a precise location, or a location tagged with a seal. Probably why most Devils usually teleported to outdoor areas rather then the inside of rooms, unless the person was signing a contract, and he needed to either get help or get transportation, since there was a tour.

"And here we have 'rock that looks like a face' rock." Stan said as he unveiled a new attraction, which really did look like a face as people looked at it. Many questions involved whether it is a rock or a face.

"Look, it's a rock that looks like a face, for the last time: it's not an actual face." Stan was very polite in trying to dissuade the crowd from thinking that the rock was somebody's face. Dipper just looked for something else, but found Wendy with the golf cart.

"Wendy, I need to borrow the golf cart!" Dipper said to the redhead, and she just handed him the keys.

"Try not to hit any pedestrians devilman." Dipper nodded, and started the engine. He backed a bit before running into Soos who handed him a shovel.

"This is for the zombies. And this is in case you see a pinata." Soos also handed Dipper a bat, which confused the teenage Devil, but he figured it could still be useful.

"Thanks Soos." Dipper drove off at full speed to enter the woods where his sister was.

"Mabel!" Dipper cried as he drove faster. He had a special seal to give him Mabel's location and was going as fast as he can to hopefully get there in time. He drove down a hill and into a grove that had magic in the air. He could hear Mabel struggling and a voice saying, "The more you struggle the more awkward this will be for everybody." Dipper stopped the cart to see a tiny man standing on a rock with several more, tiny men surrounding Mabel as she struggles. "Okay, just get hold of her arm Steve."

Dipper watched stunned as one man was biting onto Mabel's sweater as she shook him off before she punched it and then kicked another gnome into the wall. The gnome then started to vomit a rainbow…. I am not making that up.

"What the hell is going on here!?" Dipper cried out hoping to get an explanation."

"Dipper!" Mabel called out, "Norman turned out to be a bunch of gnomes! And their total jerks!"

She hits another one but her hair was then grabbed, "hair! Hair! Hair!"

"Gnomes?" Dipper said getting the journal out, "I was way off." He opens to the right page and started to read. "Gnomes: Little men of Gravity Falls forests. Weakness…unknown."

He looked up to see Mabel was caught and tied to the ground much to her annoyance. He stepped forward, "Hey! Let go of my sister!"

The gnome leader Jeff turned and looked nervous, "Oh hey there," he chuckled nervously "This is all just a big misunderstanding. You see your sister is not in danger. She's just going to marry all one thousands of us and become our gnome queen for all eternality. And with her being a devil it will make this a lot easier age wise." He turned to Mabel, "Isn't that right honey?"

"You guys are all assholes!" Mabel cried before they covered her mouth with their hands.

Dipper then had a thought, "Wait why haven't you used magic to beat them Mabel?"

Jeff turned serious, "You think you know about us? We gnomes are immune to most magic. Even your devil magic or the ice and water magic Mabel tried to use. You don't know what we are capable of. The Gnomes are a powerful race. Do not…"

Dipper however had enough as he took the shovel, scooped Jeff up and tossed him to the side. Dipper then ran forward, pushed the other gnomes out of the way and cut through the cords trapping Mabel. Once free Mabel got up and ran with Dipper to the golf cart and drove away.

"He's getting away with our queen!" Jeff cried getting back up, "No! No! No!"

But Dipper and Mabel have already driven off. Jeff was really angry now. "You messed with the wrong creature boy. Gnomes of the forest…. assemble!"

Out of the tree, the roots and other hiding places more and more gnomes came by the hundreds. They all gathered around and started to come together and form something.

Outside in the sun again Dipper was driving relax while Mabel was worried. "Hurry before they come after us," Mabel said.

"Relax," Dipper said calmly "You see their little legs? Those suckers are tiny."

However, the ground shook causing Dipper to stop the cart. Now they heard the sound of stomping and a great big shadow appeared over them. They turned to see the gnomes all amassed together to form a giant evil gnome. Mabel would admit later that she thought it looked like an evil Santa Claus.

"I could be wrong." Dipper said as the Gnomes had basically become a Gnome-tron to pursue them. Dipper had to swerve to avoid a fist, and a few Gnomes managed to get on as Mabel tried to help get them off. One of them had Dipper by the face.

"I'll save you bro!" Mabel started punching, and after a few tries managed to get the Gnome off, even if Dipper had been injured a bit from what happened, in addition to losing the brown cap he was wearing.

"Thanks Mabel." Dipper said as they managed to keep ahead, and they were up close to the Mystery Shack. The two were cornered at the wall, as they had to abandon the golf cart as they were forced into a drift.

"Where's Grunkle Stan!? He can help!" Mabel wanted to get help from Grunkle Stan, seeing his experience might be of good help.

"How is he supposed to help when he cant' even do magic!?" Dipper asked as the two backed from Jeff.

As for Grunkle Stan, he was completely ignorant of the events just outside his window as he had an object in his hand.

"Behold the world's most distracting object! Just try to look away." He said, as he was getting mesmerized by the swirling pattern alongside the paying customers that were also mesmerized by it. "Now I can't remember what I was talking about."

"Mabel, marry us before I do something we'll regret!" Jeff said as the two backed off, while they could fly off using wings, it would still drag way too much attention, and the wrong attention could easily lead to something bad.

"Stay back!" Dipper threw the shovel at the Gnome-tron, while some random guy was picking up something behind a bush and vanishing. The attack was pretty much ineffective as the Gnome-tron just let the shovel pass through it. "There's gotta be a way!"

Mabel thought about what was going on as Dipper tried to find something in the journal that could help. "I have to do it."

"What!? Mabel!" Dipper was surprised that his sister was just giving up. They couldn't just give up. He didn't want to give up, and he knew that horrible things would happen if their mother found out.

"Dipper just trust me on this." Mabel said before she directed her attention to Jeff, "I'll marry you."

"Hot dog!" Jeff then started to move down, letting 'Gnome-tron' power down without him at the helm. Then he presented the ring with the crystal stone, likely white quartz, and slipped it on her ring finger. "Now let's get you back into the forest sweety."

"You may now kiss the bride." Mabel's voice seemed to have a hint of mischief, and Dipper knew that she definitely had a plan.

"Don't mind if I do." Jeff was overly pleased with his accomplishment and was willing to take the kiss. What he got was his face in the leaf blower as she had in reverse.

"That's for lying to me!" Mabel then pulled the blower more, swallowing Jeff's feet as she spoke. "That's for breaking my heart!" She really didn't like the fact that Jeff and his Gnomes were trying to force her into a marriage. She then took aim at the Gnome-tron, "And this is for messing with my brother! Wanna do the honors?"

"On three: 1, 2, 3!" The twins finished at the same time and shot Jeff at the Gnome-tron and destroyed it, even if it was just dispersing the Gnomes as they started getting confused and scampered off into the forest. One Gnome was unlucky enough to get caught in one of those plastic rings that hold drinks and was taken off by the goat. Mabel also took off and threw the ring that Jeff gave her, not wanting to have the marriage band on her ring finger any longer.

Stan was busy counting the day's income as Dipper and Mabel entered the gift shop of the Mystery Shack, looking tired. "Geez, you two get hit by a bus or something?"

"Don't wanna talk about it." They said as one, ending the conversation topic. Stan kind of felt bad a bit. He decided that maybe since they had a rough day, he'd do something nice. "Well, wouldn't you know it, I seem to have overstocked some inventory. So why don't you two take an item from the gift shop on the house?"

"What's the catch?" Dipper had a good reason to be suspicious. Mainly because Stan never gave things for free.

"The catch is: take it before I change my mind." That perked the two up as they looked around. Dipper decided to replace his hat, as he was not going into Gnome turf without a good reason. So he decided on a blue and white baseball cap that had a pine tree on the front.

"And I will have a...grappling hook!" Mabel spun around a bit before holding the grappling hook above her head, like a certain video game character.

"Wouldn't you like a doll, do you still play with dolls?" Stan asked, aware of the two teens before Mabel shook her head no.

"Grappling hook!" She fired the grappling hook, and possibly destroyed some merchandise by accident. Stan just smiled and said it was fair enough.

(Scene Break)

You know, this journal said that there was no one you could trust, and with some devils that's true. But fighting against a Gnome army side by side with someone makes you realize that the person probably has your back.

"Mabel, can you get the lights?" Dipper asked, as the two were getting ready for bed, Dipper just took the shirt off and wore some pants, while Mable wore a large t-shirt that would easily hang off her shoulders, showing some skin and not quite fully covering her. Mabel fired the grappling hook to get the lights, and the two shared a laugh before hitting the hay.

Now I wonder what other mysteries are out there.

Stan moved in the shadows of the night to the vending machine. He input a code and stepped behind the vending machine, making one last check to make sure no one was followed before placing the machine back, as if he was shutting a door.

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