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“So, even though Robbie’s got all the books, we still have chance of stopping him?” Wendy asked.
“Yes” Dipper replied.
“We have to get to the cave in the tallest mountain in the forest” he explained “I know a way to get up there, but if we travel on foot we won’t make it up there fast enough.”
“We’ll take my truck then!” Soos said, holding up his keys “I know a lot of paths around town and in the woods and I’m sure that one must lead to the mountain we gotta get to, dudes.”
“But now that Robbie’s got the books, he’s probably even more powerful, how will we stop him if we get near him?” Pacifica asked.
Mabel glanced at Dipper and he nodded. At this, Mabel came up with her angriest memory (Pacifica mocking her parents death), approached the chair Wendy was sitting on and Mabel lifted it directly over head with one hand.
“WOAH!” Wendy proclaimed, clutching the bottom of the chair tightly, afraid to get off.
“It seems Robbie’s not the only one with extreme power.” Dipper explained “Mr. Pyramid explained it to the both of us, and we’ve had powers our whole lives, we just didn’t know of them until now; Mabel’s got super speed, strength, agility, telekinesis, super-healing and can change people and objects around.”
“I’ve got a powerful mind able to resist mind control, dark magic, and can absorb information quickly, even if I don’t have all the details yet.”
“So we’re going to use these powers to take out Robbie!” Mabel said, finally setting Wendy down “But we can’t do this alone, guys; are you still with us?”
“I am” Pacifica said “He’s gonna PAY for what he did to my house!”
Soos held up his keys again.
“I’m still with you guys; you need my truck to get around!”
Wendy finally stood up, getting over the initial shock.
“And I’m still with you guys, no matter what.”
That’s when a new voice spoke up.
“Y’all can count me in, too!”
All heads turned to the direction of the voice and they saw someone they didn’t expect standing in the room with them; Gideon Gleeful. Instantly, the workers of the Mystery Shack had him surrounded.
“What the hell are you doing here, Big Hair?!” Dipper said to him.
“If you’ve come to get the flashlight, I’m NOT sorry to say that we broke it!” Mabel informed him, indicating her and her brother.
“Now get outta here before we THROW you out!” Wendy ordered, pointing towards the door.
“Yeah!” was all Soos could say, to support the others.
Gideon put his hands up in a sign of surrender.
“No, no, I’m not here to do anything despicable” he said to them, hoping deeply that they’d believe him “I’ve come to help.”
“Help who?” Dipper said, shoving him “Help your buddy Robbie by trying to take us all out so his plan can succeed?”
“You’re sadly mistaken, short stack!” Mabel said, knocking him on the top of the head, squishing his hair down a bit, making it stay that way from all the hair spray and hair gel in it “We know you gave him YOUR book, and now that he has all three, he’ll become all powerful!”
“But we’re gonna stop him, and if we have to take you down along the way-”
Mabel grabbed Gideon’s collar and lifted him up.
“-so be it” Dipper finished for her.
Gideon put his hands up once again.
“I swear on my life and every life here in Gravity Falls; I’m here to help y’all on takin’ Robbie down!” he stated, a tone of begging almost in his voice.
Everyone wasn’t able to believe this all except for one person.
“Guys… maybe we should believe him on this” Pacifica said, finally speaking up, walking forward.
A lot of them blinked in confusion, but they all shook their heads.
“We appreciate you being nice, hon” Mabel said, setting her free hand on Pacifica’s shoulder, her other hand still holding Gideon up by his collar “but you don’t know what we’ve gone through with this freak!”
Dipper looked at Gideon as Mabel spoke to her friend, and when he saw the look in Gideon’s eyes, his own eyes went wide.
“Only time will tell… an enemy that will be a temporary ally…” he mumbled quietly to himself, repeating what Mr. Pyramid had told him and Mabel, rubbing his chin.
He looked back at Gideon once again.
“But WE’RE not going to let him trick us anymore!” Mabel told Pacifica, and looked back at Gideon as well, pulling her other hand back into a fist, ready to strike.
Gideon closed his eyes tightly, waiting for the strike! But it never came.
“Wait, Mabel!” Dipper said quickly, grabbing her arm before she struck with her newfound strength.
“What, bro-ham?” she said in aggravation.
“C’mon, lemme have this! After all he’s done and knowing I got this strength now, why not use it?!” Mabel told Dipper, trying to reason with him.
“Mabel…” Dipper said calmly.
“‘An old enemy will join you, becoming a temporary ally’…” Dipper recited to her.
Mabel glanced at Gideon, who managed to open up one eye, curious on why the blow hadn’t come yet, as he had given up on listening, in doubt of them believing him.
“So you think he meant that GIDEON was going to help us after he’s already helped Robbie out?” Mabel asked Dipper in disbelief.
Dipper nodded. At this, Gideon finally spoke up, explaining himself.
“I realized the error of my ways when Robbie betrayed our deal and I wanna help y’all in stoppin’ him!” he said quickly.
Mabel was about to set him down when one thing he said came to her attention.
“Wait-a-sec… what deal?” Mabel asked him.
Gideon winced as he remembered it.
“That he… destroys Dipper and your Uncle and leaves you alive…” he said slowly.
Then, knowing he was basically screwed, Gideon recited what he had said.
“To come cryin’ to lil ol’ me…”
Mabel, infuriated, grabbed him fully by the neck and slammed him against the wall.
“WHY YOU LITTLE…!” she shouted furiously, not even able to finish her sentence.
“I should rip your head off and put it on top of the totem pole!” Mabel shouted, shaking Gideon so much she gave him whiplash.
“And I’ve got enough strength to do that now, you know!” she said, looking him in the eye, making Gideon see her eye color change.
He could sense that dark power was encased in her and as he slowly felt his windpipe close and his eyes wandered, he saw it over Dipper as well.
Finally, as his eyes began to roll to the back of his skull, nearly passing out, Mabel realized what she was doing and let him go.
“Oh…” Mabel said, as she drew her hands back staring at them.
She realized that she had almost taken a human life. Granted, it was of someone she and her family truly despised, but knowing what she was just about to actually take a human life, fear swept through her.
“Oh god, what’s wrong with me?!” she said, tears beginning to form in the corners of her eyes.
Dipper began to comfort her, but then as he saw Gideon catching his breath, he basically passed his twin sister to Pacifica, who comforted her as Dipper went over to Gideon. Gideon looked up, coughed a bit and, not needing to be told, explained himself.
“I’ve realize… the error a’ my ways, and… I wanna help y’all in takin’ down Robbie… before he destroys the whole town… and everything n’ everyone in it...” he explained between breaths.
Dipper eyed him sharply, looking the psychic all over. He checked to see if Gideon had his fingers crossed or anything hidden on his person, but he didn’t. And when Dipper’s eyes came up to Gideon’s face, he could see the honesty in Gideon’s eyes. Dipper nodded.
“Fine” he said simply.
Gideon stood up, but Dipper stepped up closer, facing Gideon with a glare in his eye, pointing at Gideon sharply.
“But if you make one slip-up, one step-backward, or even one move that indicates you’ll betray us…” he said quietly to where everyone could just barely hear him, but Gideon could hear him perfectly.
Dipper glanced back at Mabel, whom had eased up now.
“I won’t even try to stop Mabel from tearing you to shreds!”
Mabel glared at hearing this, but not at Dipper saying this, but agreeing with him, shooting the glare at Gideon. She punched a fist into her other hand and nodded to her brother‘s statement.
“Got it?” Dipper asked, poking Gideon in his chest.
Sweat dripped down Gideon’s face, but, after a gulp, he managed to nod, put one hand up while crossing the other over his chest, making an ‘X’ and replying with a stutter “Y-y-y-yes…”
Dipper glared at him once more and stepped back, looking back at the entire group.
“Alright guys” he said, not even giving any time for the angry vibe of Gideon’s confrontation die down, as he got back on the issue at hand.
“Now that we know we’re Robbie is headed, we need to get prepared.”
Gideon didn’t even have time to ask why and how they knew as Dipper continued.
“Robbie’s probably got even more power now, but we can utilize what we have and what we’ve learned to help ourselves and take him down!”
Dipper reached into his vest at this, forgetting that he didn’t have his own book anymore. He groaned a bit, but shrugged it off.
“So, we’re going to need to get a few things” he said, snatching a notepad and pen off of the kitchen counter.
He began to write as quick as he could on the notepad. Even though he wasn’t one to write checklists anymore, he felt that this had to be done.
“We’ll need to get help from all of our allies” he said “After all, Robbie’s probably allying himself with creatures in the forest right now.”
Images of the allies they had flashed through his mind.
He thought of Quentin Trembley, but knew he had left riding backwards on a horse, so the former president wouldn’t be able to help. He then thought of the Summerween Trickster, but since Soos had eaten him alive, he knew that he wasn’t much help at all. Then Rumble McSkirmish came to his mind.
“We need to go to the arcade and use that special code I found to get Rumble out of the game again, he could help us” he told them.
Then another thought came to his mind.
“Heck! Why just him, if that code could work with him, maybe it can work with all the characters, we just need two dollars worth of quarters.”
He wrote this down, not even getting any indication of agreement or anything from the group.
Then the thought of the Manotaurs came to Dipper’s mind. But knowing that back when Bewarb was in power, they feared ‘the evil undead lord’ as they called him, so Dipper knew the giant beasts were no help at all. They had sent a 12 year old to vanquish their enemy all based on his choice of music. Those giant beasts were nothing but cowards.
And of course, Ma and Pa couldn’t leave the condemned convenience store, so they couldn’t help in any way either.
“I guess all we can get now is the Fight Fighter characters.” he thought aloud.
“We’ve made to many enemies Mabel…” he said to his sister, who nodded in agreement.
“Maybe we could get some people in town to help!” Pacifica volunteered.
“No!” Dipper snapped, not even letting everyone talk it over.
“The less people we involve in this, the better.” Dipper told her “It really should just be me and Mabel on this, but since you guys are involved on this, we need to just stick with this group.”
Somehow knowing what his sister could be thinking, Dipper pointed at her.
“We can’t involve Candy and Grenda in on this either, Mabel, we can’t let them get hurt.”
Mabel nodded once again, understanding the premise of the situation.
“But Robbie could go after them!” Mabel said, realizing it as they came up.
“True” Dipper agreed.
The Fight Fighters game came to his mind again.
“We could set up a couple of the fight fighters to guard their places so they won’t get hurt.” he compromised.
He turned to Soos.
“Soos, I’m gonna need a ride to the arcade, I’m the only one that knows the code” he said.
Soos nodded, but when he saw the time, and looked out the window, he realized how late it was getting.
“Uh, I dunno dude, Stan’s not gonna let you and Mabel out this late, especially after what’s happened today” he said reluctantly.
“The later we delay this, the more time Robbie has to help Bewarb get back in power!” Wendy told Soos angrily.
Not wanting another argument to ensue, something came to both Mabel and Dipper’s minds.
“The copy machine!” they both said out of nowhere.

They headed to the Stan’s office, where his copier was kept, and after dusting it off, the Mystery Twins explained to the group what to do.
“This copier has magical properties to copy human beings” Dipper explained “So, we’ll use it to create copies of ourselves to head out and distract Robbie.”
“But from how weak they must be against water, we’re gonna need to create tons of clones” Mabel reminded her brother.
“Right” Dipper said.
So, after a little coaxing from the group, Pacifica was the first to volunteer.
“How do you know so much about this, Dipper?” Wendy asked him as the machine scanned over Pacifica.
Dipper’s face flushed at the memory.
“Okay, remember that time Stan threw the party here in the Mystery Shack?” he asked her.
“Yeah…” Wendy replied, nodding.
“Well, I wanted to ask you to dance, but, me and my stupid plans, I created copies of myself to try and create the perfect opportunity; making a clone to take over at the ticket stand, creating some clones to distract Soos, Stan, and… Robbie… by making two of the clones steal his bike” he retold, embarrassed.
Wendy eyed him a bit disappointedly. She shook her head a bit.
“I would be a bit annoyed at you for being so immature, if Robbie didn’t become what he is now” she told him, pointing down at him “We’ll talk more about this after all this blows over.”
“Wha-KISH!” Mabel said, copying the sound of a whip.
“Shut it, Mabel!” Dipper snapped at her, blushing red in embarrassment.
This sibling bickering couldn’t continue, though, as the copies of Pacifica had finally come out of the machine. As Dipper quickly took the papers and laid them out across the floor, what he had told the group came true; the images began to rip from the papers smoothly and became three-dimensional. Aside from being slightly paler than Pacifica herself, they looked exactly like her!
Thinking her clones would have her [mostly] old mindset, Pacifica took over for Dipper at ordering them around.
“I need you all to head out into the forest and distract Robbie. Try and slow him down by any means necessary!”
Her clones left after this, obeying her commands, not even questioning her orders, and so it was time to create more clones.
“They won’t be enough” Dipper said, and then it was his turn.
After creating more clones of himself, not bothering to number them, and then doing the same with Mabel (figuring out that Mabel’s clones, unfortunately, didn’t have any of her powers) they sent them out to slow down Robbie.
“What about me?” Gideon spoke up, having remained quiet to not arise any issues. But, now wanting to help, he wanted to show he was willing to do anything.
Dipper and Mabel glanced at each other, and at seeing their respective sibling nod, they granted Gideon access to create clones of himself. Knowing Mabel’s clones didn’t have any of her powers, they knew Gideon’s wouldn’t have his either, even though they doubted if he had any at all.
But then the issue of Soos and Wendy’s clones arose as Gideon’s clones left by his order.
“Uh, Wendy and I are to tall to fit on there… and I might squish it even if I could fit” Soos pointed out, indicating both his and Wendy’s height, as well as his own weight by slapping his gut, making it jiggle.
Dipper took this into account, but by having his more powerful mind in action, he was able to come up with an idea a split-second after Soos mentioned the problem.
“Mabel!” He said excitedly in realization, grabbing her shoulders.
“What?!” Mabel asked, flinching in surprise, almost breaking Dipper’s hands with her newfound strength.
“Use your transmogrification powers on the copy machine” he told her “you could make it bigger and more durable so it can scan Soos and Wendy, or change it into something else entirely!”
Mabel smiled at this.
“Nice to know I can help” she said, and then had everyone step back.
“Okay… I don’t exactly know how this works, so let’s see here…” she said to both the group as well as herself, feeling unsure.
She put a hand on each side of the machine and began to concentrate, everyone else remaining quiet to not distract her. She gripped the machine tighter as she concentrated harder, sweat dripping down her body, her knuckles turning white and her face turning red. Finally though, a slight yellow glowing essence surrounded the machine and it began to distort in shape.
Not knowing what it was turning into, they all remained quiet. Finally though, Mabel stopped and as she fell to her knees, tired, they saw what it was now.
“A camera?” Pacifica said curiously.
Mabel looked back, nodding, breathing heavily.
“Yeah…” was all she could say, looking exhausted.
Mabel sighed, clutching her head.
“Oh boy, do I feel light-headed…”
Dipper helped her up as Pacifica picked up the camera.
“How the heck is THIS gonna help us?” she asked, putting her eye to the lens. She looked around through it.
“Even if it’s still got all it’s magical properties, Soos and Wendy’s clones are going to be to small to be able to help!” Gideon said, supporting Pacifica’s disappointment.
“Well… we could use the crystals…” Mabel said, still feeling weak in the knees.
“Oh yeah, the shrinking and growing crystals you guys found in the forest” Soos said, snapping his fingers.
Not knowing what they were talking about, Wendy faced Pacifica.
“Let’s see if the camera does anything first, okay?” Wendy asked her.
Pacifica nodded and she aimed the camera at the older teen in front of her. She pressed the button, making a light flash, and a picture fell out of the camera.
“Scap-book-ortunity…” Mabel said giddily at seeing the flash, still feeling disoriented.
But, then, as the picture fell to the ground, looking completely developed, the image of Wendy began to come out smoothly from the picture and grew to Wendy’s natural size.
“Sweet!” Wendy said with a nod, satisfied.
Knowing that it worked now, Pacifica took more pictures of Wendy, and then of Soos. The group now had 20 clones of each person in the group, 120 in total, hoping it would be enough to slow Robbie down while they thought up a plan.
As they sent Wendy and Soos’ clones out, Dipper grabbed his notepad and paper again so the group could strategize.
“Okay, so, while our clones are buying us time, I think we’ll just have to wait before we all leave.” Dipper instructed.
“Grunkle Stan’s not going to let Mabel, Pacifica or I leave, and if he see’s Gideon, he’s gonna freak” he said, pointing at each person’s name he said, aside from himself “So, we’re just going to have to wait until he goes to bed, and we’re gonna have to leave pretty late tonight.”
“How’re we gonna get to the arcade then?” Soos asked.
Dipper reached into his pocket.
“Luckily, I didn’t keep everything in that book” he said, not even bothering to look up from the notepad, holding up the president’s key that Quentin Trembley gave to him.
“We’re gonna have to be really sneaky about this…” he said “we’ll have to sneak into the arcade and get the video-game characters out of it.”
“Then we’ll set them up to protect Candy and Grenda, grab some supplies, and go after Robbie.”
“Can you get one of your dad’s axes Wendy?” Dipper asked the redheaded teen, remembering her dad was a lumberjack.
Wendy shrugged, wincing a bit.
“Maybe… he’s actually pretty responsible with them, keeping them in the family safe and everything else dangerous in his room. If all else, I can at least get each one of the hatchets he gave me and my brothers last Christmas. They’re small, but they could come in handy.”
“I’ll help out on making ‘em bigger” Mabel said, now feeling able to stand up firmly.
“Are you sure?” Pacifica asked worriedly “you got pretty drained after making this.”
She held up the camera, not seeming disappointed about it anymore.
“Well… I’ll do it if it’s an emergency. We could get the crystals instead.”
Dipper nodded, writing this down.
“I’ll get some spare batteries for the flashlight.”
They all finished up strategizing.
“Alright guys, it looks like we’ve got everything planned out.” Dipper finished, setting down the notepad.
Feeling a bit silly after being so serious, he decided on one final thing. He stuck his hand out.
“Is everyone in on this?” he asked, smiling.
Mabel giggled and put her hand over her brother’s.
“You know I’m in all the way, broseph!”
Soos got down on his knees so he could put his hand over theirs.
“You guys need me and my truck, so, I’m in.”
Wendy put her hand over Soos’ hand.
“I’ve been in this whole time, and I ain’t backing out now!”
Pacifica put her hand over Wendy’s.
“I may not like the house my parents left me alone in so much, but I’m going to make him pay for tearing it down!”
Gideon finally put his hand over everyone else’s.
“I need to clean up this mess I helped to make, so, y‘all can count on lil ol‘ me!”
“Then let’s do this!” Dipper said, and they all threw their hands up.

As the whole group was strategizing their plan, deep in the forest outside of town, Robbie and Bewarb were doing the same thing.
“Now that we have the books, only one thing left to do, right?” Robbie asked.
Unexpectedly though, Bewarb shook his head.
“Unfortunately, no” he replied “I fear that they may be after us, and even though we have the books and overpower them, we are still outnumbered.”
“Gideon has probably gone to join the Pines and may come after us. Though he may be powerless, the Pines aren’t.”
He put his fingers to the sides of his head, closed his eyes, and flashed an image in front of Robbie eyes.
“When I was defeated by the father of the Pines Twins, while he did not kill me completely, he weakened me, and a shred of my power was encased into him, and he passed those powers down to them.”
Robbie snapped his fingers in realization.
“THAT’S why that brace-face was able to knock me down back when we were underground.”
He gritted his teeth in anger then.
“And if she could do that, she probably could make it out of there, and her stupid twerp of a brother too!”
Bewarb agreed and then had Robbie hold out both ‘3’ and ‘1’ and after placing a hand on each, twitching a bit at touch ‘3’, but they both shrugged that off, he touched Robbie’s shoulder and Robbie could feel more power coursing through him.
“Now you have the power to call upon and summon allies, which you shall make on our quest, and I can sense one person who can be an ally to us.”
He put his fingers to the sides of his head again, closed his eyes, and an image flashed in front of Robbie again. Robbie couldn’t help but smirk at seeing it.
“Larry King, really?” he asked, stifling a laugh “That dude’s to old to even still be alive now, how can he help us?”
Bewarb opened his eyes, placed his hands at his sides and shook his head.
“It isn‘t really him, it is a cursed wax sculpture of that famous elderly human, Larry King, an enemy of the Pines.” he described angrily “Magical essences touched him and his old allies and he is the only one left.”
Robbie thought back to the image and still was confused.
“But… he was just a head… he can’t do that much, can he?”
Bewarb smiled and nodded.
“There is one wax sculpture un-touched by the essence, and with a simple… transfer, if you will, he can help us.”
Robbie smiled back as he though of the wax sculpture of Stan Pines.
“But, as well as him, there are others who can help us as well.” Bewarb added.
“Who else?” Robbie asked
Bewarb nodded and simply replied “Gnomes.”
At this, Robbie didn’t even try to hold it back; he broke out laughing.
“S-seriously?” he asked, not even waiting for a reply “tiny little statues people used to decorate gardens.”
As he was not intangible to Robbie, Bewarb smacked the dark-powered teenager upside his head.
“Do not laugh!” he ordered “There is strength in numbers, and with the many gnomes scattered throughout this forest, they will hold back the Pines, whom they are scorned enemies of as well.”
“After making allies with these creatures though, there is one final enemy we must face.”
Once more, placing his hands at sides of his head and closing his eyes, Bewarb had one more image flash in front of Robbie. Robbie cocked an eye-brow in confusion.
“A bear… that’s it?” he asked.
Now being very strong, a full sized bear seemed like a stuffed animal version of the real creature to Robbie. But then the image enlarged and Robbie could see that this creature had nine extra heads.
“Once an enemy of Dipper Pines, but now an ally, his soul purpose is to guard the incantation circle we must go to, his cave is the domain where our final goal is encased.”
“Though Dipper himself was able to stop him, when he learns of us trying to begin the incantation, his true power will kick in, and he may succeed in stopping you.”
Robbie smirked again at this.
“Oh, I ain’t worried, Bewarb…” he said.
He grabbed a fully grown tree by it’s trunk and with one tug it came out of the ground roots and all. One light toss and it went flying to the other end of the forest.
Bewarb nodded.
“Very well, we will continue, but as we do, please do not hesitate to make allies, remember; ‘the enemy of my enemy is my friend’.”
Robbie shrugged.
“No clue what that mean, but if we do run into someone who the hates those twerps and their friends, we’ll have them help us” Robbie replied.
Bewarb rolled his eyes, but did not say anything of Robbie basically saying exactly what he just said, only simpler.
“Fine, let us continue then…”
Before doing so though, they heard the snap of a twig. With his quickened reflexes, Robbie looked back.
“What was that?” he said, getting in a defensive stance.
Out of nowhere, though, they heard a yell and though a group of wild bushes and over a patch of poison ivy did their enemies come charging at them; Dipper, Mabel, Soos, Pacifica, Wendy, and Gideon!
Without even coming up with anything to say and without hesitation, Robbie through a giant blue fireball at them and vanquished them on the spot before they reached him.
“YES!” he cried in victory as he saw the burnt black patch of ground where they once stood.
But before he could celebrate more, a scent reached his nose.
“Hmmm… smells like burning paper…” he thought aloud.
A bit of burnt paper floated by him, and when he reached out to catch it, it crumbled more.
He inspected the spot more and saw more pieces of burnt, blackened paper.
“Decoys!” Bewarb told him “They found ways to clones himself through paper and have sent them to distract us.”
Robbie thought back to a few months ago when his bike had been stolen when there was a party at the Mystery Shack. Again, he snapped his fingers in realization.
“That explains why I thought I saw two of that twerp on my bike when it was stolen.”
Bewarb turned his head to look at Robbie.
“What happened” he asked, but already knew.
Robbie kicked a bit of the black dust from the burnt paper.
“Eh, when I finally caught up with them, they hopped off and took out a couple water bottles and ran into the forest.” he replied, bored.
“A kamikaze mission; water disindegrates paper, and when you caught them, they destroyed themselves to cover their tracks.” he explained to Robbie.
“Yeah…” Robbie said.
“They probably thought ahead, too, so I bet there was more than just these six clones out here following us.”
Bewarb agreed with him.
“True, so let us make haste and finish our quest!”
Robbie agreed and took off running, ready to finish and achieve ultimate power!
“Vengeance will be ours!” Bewarb said as he floated a few paced behind the teenager.

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“So, even though Robbie’s got all the books, we still have chance of stopping him?” Wendy asked.
“Yes” Dipper replied.
“We have to get to the cave in the tallest mountain in the forest” he explained “I know a way to get up there, but if we travel on foot we won’t make it up there fast enough.”
“We’ll take my truck then!” Soos said, holding up his keys “I know a lot of paths around town and in the woods and I’m sure that one must lead to the mountain we gotta get to, dudes.”
“But now that Robbie’s got the books, he’s probably even more powerful, how will we stop him if we get near him?” Pacifica asked.
Mabel glanced at Dipper and he nodded. At this, Mabel came up with her angriest memory (Pacifica mocking her parents death), approached the chair Wendy was sitting on and Mabel lifted it directly over head with one hand.
“WOAH!” Wendy proclaimed, clutching the bottom of the chair tightly, afraid to get off.
“It seems Robbie’s not the only one with extreme power.” Dipper explained “Mr. Pyramid explained it to the both of us, and we’ve had powers our whole lives, we just didn’t know of them until now; Mabel’s got super speed, strength, agility, telekinesis, super-healing and can change people and objects around.”
“I’ve got a powerful mind able to resist mind control, dark magic, and can absorb information quickly, even if I don’t have all the details yet.”
“So we’re going to use these powers to take out Robbie!” Mabel said, finally setting Wendy down “But we can’t do this alone, guys; are you still with us?”
“I am” Pacifica said “He’s gonna PAY for what he did to my house!”
Soos held up his keys again.
“I’m still with you guys; you need my truck to get around!”
Wendy finally stood up, getting over the initial shock.
“And I’m still with you guys, no matter what.”
That’s when a new voice spoke up.
“Y’all can count me in, too!”
All heads turned to the direction of the voice and they saw someone they didn’t expect standing in the room with them; Gideon Gleeful. Instantly, the workers of the Mystery Shack had him surrounded.
“What the hell are you doing here, Big Hair?!” Dipper said to him.
“If you’ve come to get the flashlight, I’m NOT sorry to say that we broke it!” Mabel informed him, indicating her and her brother.
“Now get outta here before we THROW you out!” Wendy ordered, pointing towards the door.
“Yeah!” was all Soos could say, to support the others.
Gideon put his hands up in a sign of surrender.
“No, no, I’m not here to do anything despicable” he said to them, hoping deeply that they’d believe him “I’ve come to help.”
“Help who?” Dipper said, shoving him “Help your buddy Robbie by trying to take us all out so his plan can succeed?”
“You’re sadly mistaken, short stack!” Mabel said, knocking him on the top of the head, squishing his hair down a bit, making it stay that way from all the hair spray and hair gel in it “We know you gave him YOUR book, and now that he has all three, he’ll become all powerful!”
“But we’re gonna stop him, and if we have to take you down along the way-”
Mabel grabbed Gideon’s collar and lifted him up.
“-so be it” Dipper finished for her.
Gideon put his hands up once again.
“I swear on my life and every life here in Gravity Falls; I’m here to help y’all on takin’ Robbie down!” he stated, a tone of begging almost in his voice.
Everyone wasn’t able to believe this all except for one person.
“Guys… maybe we should believe him on this” Pacifica said, finally speaking up, walking forward.
A lot of them blinked in confusion, but they all shook their heads.
“We appreciate you being nice, hon” Mabel said, setting her free hand on Pacifica’s shoulder, her other hand still holding Gideon up by his collar “but you don’t know what we’ve gone through with this freak!”
Dipper looked at Gideon as Mabel spoke to her friend, and when he saw the look in Gideon’s eyes, his own eyes went wide.
“Only time will tell… an enemy that will be a temporary ally…” he mumbled quietly to himself, repeating what Mr. Pyramid had told him and Mabel, rubbing his chin.
He looked back at Gideon once again.
“But WE’RE not going to let him trick us anymore!” Mabel told Pacifica, and looked back at Gideon as well, pulling her other hand back into a fist, ready to strike.
Gideon closed his eyes tightly, waiting for the strike! But it never came.
“Wait, Mabel!” Dipper said quickly, grabbing her arm before she struck with her newfound strength.
“What, bro-ham?” she said in aggravation.
“C’mon, lemme have this! After all he’s done and knowing I got this strength now, why not use it?!” Mabel told Dipper, trying to reason with him.
“Mabel…” Dipper said calmly.
“‘An old enemy will join you, becoming a temporary ally’…” Dipper recited to her.
Mabel glanced at Gideon, who managed to open up one eye, curious on why the blow hadn’t come yet, as he had given up on listening, in doubt of them believing him.
“So you think he meant that GIDEON was going to help us after he’s already helped Robbie out?” Mabel asked Dipper in disbelief.
Dipper nodded. At this, Gideon finally spoke up, explaining himself.
“I realized the error of my ways when Robbie betrayed our deal and I wanna help y’all in stoppin’ him!” he said quickly.
Mabel was about to set him down when one thing he said came to her attention.
“Wait-a-sec… what deal?” Mabel asked him.
Gideon winced as he remembered it.
“That he… destroys Dipper and your Uncle and leaves you alive…” he said slowly.
Then, knowing he was basically screwed, Gideon recited what he had said.
“To come cryin’ to lil ol’ me…”
Mabel, infuriated, grabbed him fully by the neck and slammed him against the wall.
“WHY YOU LITTLE…!” she shouted furiously, not even able to finish her sentence.
“I should rip your head off and put it on top of the totem pole!” Mabel shouted, shaking Gideon so much she gave him whiplash.
“And I’ve got enough strength to do that now, you know!” she said, looking him in the eye, making Gideon see her eye color change.
He could sense that dark power was encased in her and as he slowly felt his windpipe close and his eyes wandered, he saw it over Dipper as well.
Finally, as his eyes began to roll to the back of his skull, nearly passing out, Mabel realized what she was doing and let him go.
“Oh…” Mabel said, as she drew her hands back staring at them.
She realized that she had almost taken a human life. Granted, it was of someone she and her family truly despised, but knowing what she was just about to actually take a human life, fear swept through her.
“Oh god, what’s wrong with me?!” she said, tears beginning to form in the corners of her eyes.
Dipper began to comfort her, but then as he saw Gideon catching his breath, he basically passed his twin sister to Pacifica, who comforted her as Dipper went over to Gideon. Gideon looked up, coughed a bit and, not needing to be told, explained himself.
“I’ve realize… the error a’ my ways, and… I wanna help y’all in takin’ down Robbie… before he destroys the whole town… and everything n’ everyone in it...” he explained between breaths.
Dipper eyed him sharply, looking the psychic all over. He checked to see if Gideon had his fingers crossed or anything hidden on his person, but he didn’t. And when Dipper’s eyes came up to Gideon’s face, he could see the honesty in Gideon’s eyes. Dipper nodded.
“Fine” he said simply.
Gideon stood up, but Dipper stepped up closer, facing Gideon with a glare in his eye, pointing at Gideon sharply.
“But if you make one slip-up, one step-backward, or even one move that indicates you’ll betray us…” he said quietly to where everyone could just barely hear him, but Gideon could hear him perfectly.
Dipper glanced back at Mabel, whom had eased up now.
“I won’t even try to stop Mabel from tearing you to shreds!”
Mabel glared at hearing this, but not at Dipper saying this, but agreeing with him, shooting the glare at Gideon. She punched a fist into her other hand and nodded to her brother‘s statement.
“Got it?” Dipper asked, poking Gideon in his chest.
Sweat dripped down Gideon’s face, but, after a gulp, he managed to nod, put one hand up while crossing the other over his chest, making an ‘X’ and replying with a stutter “Y-y-y-yes…”
Dipper glared at him once more and stepped back, looking back at the entire group.
“Alright guys” he said, not even giving any time for the angry vibe of Gideon’s confrontation die down, as he got back on the issue at hand.
“Now that we know we’re Robbie is headed, we need to get prepared.”
Gideon didn’t even have time to ask why and how they knew as Dipper continued.
“Robbie’s probably got even more power now, but we can utilize what we have and what we’ve learned to help ourselves and take him down!”
Dipper reached into his vest at this, forgetting that he didn’t have his own book anymore. He groaned a bit, but shrugged it off.
“So, we’re going to need to get a few things” he said, snatching a notepad and pen off of the kitchen counter.
He began to write as quick as he could on the notepad. Even though he wasn’t one to write checklists anymore, he felt that this had to be done.
“We’ll need to get help from all of our allies” he said “After all, Robbie’s probably allying himself with creatures in the forest right now.”
Images of the allies they had flashed through his mind.
He thought of Quentin Trembley, but knew he had left riding backwards on a horse, so the former president wouldn’t be able to help. He then thought of the Summerween Trickster, but since Soos had eaten him alive, he knew that he wasn’t much help at all. Then Rumble McSkirmish came to his mind.
“We need to go to the arcade and use that special code I found to get Rumble out of the game again, he could help us” he told them.
Then another thought came to his mind.
“Heck! Why just him, if that code could work with him, maybe it can work with all the characters, we just need two dollars worth of quarters.”
He wrote this down, not even getting any indication of agreement or anything from the group.
Then the thought of the Manotaurs came to Dipper’s mind. But knowing that back when Bewarb was in power, they feared ‘the evil undead lord’ as they called him, so Dipper knew the giant beasts were no help at all. They had sent a 12 year old to vanquish their enemy all based on his choice of music. Those giant beasts were nothing but cowards.
And of course, Ma and Pa couldn’t leave the condemned convenience store, so they couldn’t help in any way either.
“I guess all we can get now is the Fight Fighter characters.” he thought aloud.
“We’ve made to many enemies Mabel…” he said to his sister, who nodded in agreement.
“Maybe we could get some people in town to help!” Pacifica volunteered.
“No!” Dipper snapped, not even letting everyone talk it over.
“The less people we involve in this, the better.” Dipper told her “It really should just be me and Mabel on this, but since you guys are involved on this, we need to just stick with this group.”
Somehow knowing what his sister could be thinking, Dipper pointed at her.
“We can’t involve Candy and Grenda in on this either, Mabel, we can’t let them get hurt.”
Mabel nodded once again, understanding the premise of the situation.
“But Robbie could go after them!” Mabel said, realizing it as they came up.
“True” Dipper agreed.
The Fight Fighters game came to his mind again.
“We could set up a couple of the fight fighters to guard their places so they won’t get hurt.” he compromised.
He turned to Soos.
“Soos, I’m gonna need a ride to the arcade, I’m the only one that knows the code” he said.
Soos nodded, but when he saw the time, and looked out the window, he realized how late it was getting.
“Uh, I dunno dude, Stan’s not gonna let you and Mabel out this late, especially after what’s happened today” he said reluctantly.
“The later we delay this, the more time Robbie has to help Bewarb get back in power!” Wendy told Soos angrily.
Not wanting another argument to ensue, something came to both Mabel and Dipper’s minds.
“The copy machine!” they both said out of nowhere.

They headed to the Stan’s office, where his copier was kept, and after dusting it off, the Mystery Twins explained to the group what to do.
“This copier has magical properties to copy human beings” Dipper explained “So, we’ll use it to create copies of ourselves to head out and distract Robbie.”
“But from how weak they must be against water, we’re gonna need to create tons of clones” Mabel reminded her brother.
“Right” Dipper said.
So, after a little coaxing from the group, Pacifica was the first to volunteer.
“How do you know so much about this, Dipper?” Wendy asked him as the machine scanned over Pacifica.
Dipper’s face flushed at the memory.
“Okay, remember that time Stan threw the party here in the Mystery Shack?” he asked her.
“Yeah…” Wendy replied, nodding.
“Well, I wanted to ask you to dance, but, me and my stupid plans, I created copies of myself to try and create the perfect opportunity; making a clone to take over at the ticket stand, creating some clones to distract Soos, Stan, and… Robbie… by making two of the clones steal his bike” he retold, embarrassed.
Wendy eyed him a bit disappointedly. She shook her head a bit.
“I would be a bit annoyed at you for being so immature, if Robbie didn’t become what he is now” she told him, pointing down at him “We’ll talk more about this after all this blows over.”
“Wha-KISH!” Mabel said, copying the sound of a whip.
“Shut it, Mabel!” Dipper snapped at her, blushing red in embarrassment.
This sibling bickering couldn’t continue, though, as the copies of Pacifica had finally come out of the machine. As Dipper quickly took the papers and laid them out across the floor, what he had told the group came true; the images began to rip from the papers smoothly and became three-dimensional. Aside from being slightly paler than Pacifica herself, they looked exactly like her!
Thinking her clones would have her [mostly] old mindset, Pacifica took over for Dipper at ordering them around.
“I need you all to head out into the forest and distract Robbie. Try and slow him down by any means necessary!”
Her clones left after this, obeying her commands, not even questioning her orders, and so it was time to create more clones.
“They won’t be enough” Dipper said, and then it was his turn.
After creating more clones of himself, not bothering to number them, and then doing the same with Mabel (figuring out that Mabel’s clones, unfortunately, didn’t have any of her powers) they sent them out to slow down Robbie.
“What about me?” Gideon spoke up, having remained quiet to not arise any issues. But, now wanting to help, he wanted to show he was willing to do anything.
Dipper and Mabel glanced at each other, and at seeing their respective sibling nod, they granted Gideon access to create clones of himself. Knowing Mabel’s clones didn’t have any of her powers, they knew Gideon’s wouldn’t have his either, even though they doubted if he had any at all.
But then the issue of Soos and Wendy’s clones arose as Gideon’s clones left by his order.
“Uh, Wendy and I are to tall to fit on there… and I might squish it even if I could fit” Soos pointed out, indicating both his and Wendy’s height, as well as his own weight by slapping his gut, making it jiggle.
Dipper took this into account, but by having his more powerful mind in action, he was able to come up with an idea a split-second after Soos mentioned the problem.
“Mabel!” He said excitedly in realization, grabbing her shoulders.
“What?!” Mabel asked, flinching in surprise, almost breaking Dipper’s hands with her newfound strength.
“Use your transmogrification powers on the copy machine” he told her “you could make it bigger and more durable so it can scan Soos and Wendy, or change it into something else entirely!”
Mabel smiled at this.
“Nice to know I can help” she said, and then had everyone step back.
“Okay… I don’t exactly know how this works, so let’s see here…” she said to both the group as well as herself, feeling unsure.
She put a hand on each side of the machine and began to concentrate, everyone else remaining quiet to not distract her. She gripped the machine tighter as she concentrated harder, sweat dripping down her body, her knuckles turning white and her face turning red. Finally though, a slight yellow glowing essence surrounded the machine and it began to distort in shape.
Not knowing what it was turning into, they all remained quiet. Finally though, Mabel stopped and as she fell to her knees, tired, they saw what it was now.
“A camera?” Pacifica said curiously.
Mabel looked back, nodding, breathing heavily.
“Yeah…” was all she could say, looking exhausted.
Mabel sighed, clutching her head.
“Oh boy, do I feel light-headed…”
Dipper helped her up as Pacifica picked up the camera.
“How the heck is THIS gonna help us?” she asked, putting her eye to the lens. She looked around through it.
“Even if it’s still got all it’s magical properties, Soos and Wendy’s clones are going to be to small to be able to help!” Gideon said, supporting Pacifica’s disappointment.
“Well… we could use the crystals…” Mabel said, still feeling weak in the knees.
“Oh yeah, the shrinking and growing crystals you guys found in the forest” Soos said, snapping his fingers.
Not knowing what they were talking about, Wendy faced Pacifica.
“Let’s see if the camera does anything first, okay?” Wendy asked her.
Pacifica nodded and she aimed the camera at the older teen in front of her. She pressed the button, making a light flash, and a picture fell out of the camera.
“Scap-book-ortunity…” Mabel said giddily at seeing the flash, still feeling disoriented.
But, then, as the picture fell to the ground, looking completely developed, the image of Wendy began to come out smoothly from the picture and grew to Wendy’s natural size.
“Sweet!” Wendy said with a nod, satisfied.
Knowing that it worked now, Pacifica took more pictures of Wendy, and then of Soos. The group now had 20 clones of each person in the group, 120 in total, hoping it would be enough to slow Robbie down while they thought up a plan.
As they sent Wendy and Soos’ clones out, Dipper grabbed his notepad and paper again so the group could strategize.
“Okay, so, while our clones are buying us time, I think we’ll just have to wait before we all leave.” Dipper instructed.
“Grunkle Stan’s not going to let Mabel, Pacifica or I leave, and if he see’s Gideon, he’s gonna freak” he said, pointing at each person’s name he said, aside from himself “So, we’re just going to have to wait until he goes to bed, and we’re gonna have to leave pretty late tonight.”
“How’re we gonna get to the arcade then?” Soos asked.
Dipper reached into his pocket.
“Luckily, I didn’t keep everything in that book” he said, not even bothering to look up from the notepad, holding up the president’s key that Quentin Trembley gave to him.
“We’re gonna have to be really sneaky about this…” he said “we’ll have to sneak into the arcade and get the video-game characters out of it.”
“Then we’ll set them up to protect Candy and Grenda, grab some supplies, and go after Robbie.”
“Can you get one of your dad’s axes Wendy?” Dipper asked the redheaded teen, remembering her dad was a lumberjack.
Wendy shrugged, wincing a bit.
“Maybe… he’s actually pretty responsible with them, keeping them in the family safe and everything else dangerous in his room. If all else, I can at least get each one of the hatchets he gave me and my brothers last Christmas. They’re small, but they could come in handy.”
“I’ll help out on making ‘em bigger” Mabel said, now feeling able to stand up firmly.
“Are you sure?” Pacifica asked worriedly “you got pretty drained after making this.”
She held up the camera, not seeming disappointed about it anymore.
“Well… I’ll do it if it’s an emergency. We could get the crystals instead.”
Dipper nodded, writing this down.
“I’ll get some spare batteries for the flashlight.”
They all finished up strategizing.
“Alright guys, it looks like we’ve got everything planned out.” Dipper finished, setting down the notepad.
Feeling a bit silly after being so serious, he decided on one final thing. He stuck his hand out.
“Is everyone in on this?” he asked, smiling.
Mabel giggled and put her hand over her brother’s.
“You know I’m in all the way, broseph!”
Soos got down on his knees so he could put his hand over theirs.
“You guys need me and my truck, so, I’m in.”
Wendy put her hand over Soos’ hand.
“I’ve been in this whole time, and I ain’t backing out now!”
Pacifica put her hand over Wendy’s.
“I may not like the house my parents left me alone in so much, but I’m going to make him pay for tearing it down!”
Gideon finally put his hand over everyone else’s.
“I need to clean up this mess I helped to make, so, y‘all can count on lil ol‘ me!”
“Then let’s do this!” Dipper said, and they all threw their hands up.

As the whole group was strategizing their plan, deep in the forest outside of town, Robbie and Bewarb were doing the same thing.
“Now that we have the books, only one thing left to do, right?” Robbie asked.
Unexpectedly though, Bewarb shook his head.
“Unfortunately, no” he replied “I fear that they may be after us, and even though we have the books and overpower them, we are still outnumbered.”
“Gideon has probably gone to join the Pines and may come after us. Though he may be powerless, the Pines aren’t.”
He put his fingers to the sides of his head, closed his eyes, and flashed an image in front of Robbie eyes.
“When I was defeated by the father of the Pines Twins, while he did not kill me completely, he weakened me, and a shred of my power was encased into him, and he passed those powers down to them.”
Robbie snapped his fingers in realization.
“THAT’S why that brace-face was able to knock me down back when we were underground.”
He gritted his teeth in anger then.
“And if she could do that, she probably could make it out of there, and her stupid twerp of a brother too!”
Bewarb agreed and then had Robbie hold out both ‘3’ and ‘1’ and after placing a hand on each, twitching a bit at touch ‘3’, but they both shrugged that off, he touched Robbie’s shoulder and Robbie could feel more power coursing through him.
“Now you have the power to call upon and summon allies, which you shall make on our quest, and I can sense one person who can be an ally to us.”
He put his fingers to the sides of his head again, closed his eyes, and an image flashed in front of Robbie again. Robbie couldn’t help but smirk at seeing it.
“Larry King, really?” he asked, stifling a laugh “That dude’s to old to even still be alive now, how can he help us?”
Bewarb opened his eyes, placed his hands at his sides and shook his head.
“It isn‘t really him, it is a cursed wax sculpture of that famous elderly human, Larry King, an enemy of the Pines.” he described angrily “Magical essences touched him and his old allies and he is the only one left.”
Robbie thought back to the image and still was confused.
“But… he was just a head… he can’t do that much, can he?”
Bewarb smiled and nodded.
“There is one wax sculpture un-touched by the essence, and with a simple… transfer, if you will, he can help us.”
Robbie smiled back as he though of the wax sculpture of Stan Pines.
“But, as well as him, there are others who can help us as well.” Bewarb added.
“Who else?” Robbie asked
Bewarb nodded and simply replied “Gnomes.”
At this, Robbie didn’t even try to hold it back; he broke out laughing.
“S-seriously?” he asked, not even waiting for a reply “tiny little statues people used to decorate gardens.”
As he was not intangible to Robbie, Bewarb smacked the dark-powered teenager upside his head.
“Do not laugh!” he ordered “There is strength in numbers, and with the many gnomes scattered throughout this forest, they will hold back the Pines, whom they are scorned enemies of as well.”
“After making allies with these creatures though, there is one final enemy we must face.”
Once more, placing his hands at sides of his head and closing his eyes, Bewarb had one more image flash in front of Robbie. Robbie cocked an eye-brow in confusion.
“A bear… that’s it?” he asked.
Now being very strong, a full sized bear seemed like a stuffed animal version of the real creature to Robbie. But then the image enlarged and Robbie could see that this creature had nine extra heads.
“Once an enemy of Dipper Pines, but now an ally, his soul purpose is to guard the incantation circle we must go to, his cave is the domain where our final goal is encased.”
“Though Dipper himself was able to stop him, when he learns of us trying to begin the incantation, his true power will kick in, and he may succeed in stopping you.”
Robbie smirked again at this.
“Oh, I ain’t worried, Bewarb…” he said.
He grabbed a fully grown tree by it’s trunk and with one tug it came out of the ground roots and all. One light toss and it went flying to the other end of the forest.
Bewarb nodded.
“Very well, we will continue, but as we do, please do not hesitate to make allies, remember; ‘the enemy of my enemy is my friend’.”
Robbie shrugged.
“No clue what that mean, but if we do run into someone who the hates those twerps and their friends, we’ll have them help us” Robbie replied.
Bewarb rolled his eyes, but did not say anything of Robbie basically saying exactly what he just said, only simpler.
“Fine, let us continue then…”
Before doing so though, they heard the snap of a twig. With his quickened reflexes, Robbie looked back.
“What was that?” he said, getting in a defensive stance.
Out of nowhere, though, they heard a yell and though a group of wild bushes and over a patch of poison ivy did their enemies come charging at them; Dipper, Mabel, Soos, Pacifica, Wendy, and Gideon!
Without even coming up with anything to say and without hesitation, Robbie through a giant blue fireball at them and vanquished them on the spot before they reached him.
“YES!” he cried in victory as he saw the burnt black patch of ground where they once stood.
But before he could celebrate more, a scent reached his nose.
“Hmmm… smells like burning paper…” he thought aloud.
A bit of burnt paper floated by him, and when he reached out to catch it, it crumbled more.
He inspected the spot more and saw more pieces of burnt, blackened paper.
“Decoys!” Bewarb told him “They found ways to clones himself through paper and have sent them to distract us.”
Robbie thought back to a few months ago when his bike had been stolen when there was a party at the Mystery Shack. Again, he snapped his fingers in realization.
“That explains why I thought I saw two of that twerp on my bike when it was stolen.”
Bewarb turned his head to look at Robbie.
“What happened” he asked, but already knew.
Robbie kicked a bit of the black dust from the burnt paper.
“Eh, when I finally caught up with them, they hopped off and took out a couple water bottles and ran into the forest.” he replied, bored.
“A kamikaze mission; water disindegrates paper, and when you caught them, they destroyed themselves to cover their tracks.” he explained to Robbie.
“Yeah…” Robbie said.
“They probably thought ahead, too, so I bet there was more than just these six clones out here following us.”
Bewarb agreed with him.
“True, so let us make haste and finish our quest!”
Robbie agreed and took off running, ready to finish and achieve ultimate power!
“Vengeance will be ours!” Bewarb said as he floated a few paced behind the teenager.