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Last Chapter-
A long silence stood. You remembered something. The camera. You took it off your head and looked at it. You faced it. The red light was still blinking, showing that it was still on. You smiled at the camera as you wiped the lens with your finger. You turned off the camera. I guess this is my final goodbye. Everything went completely pitch black as you completely lost sense with your senses. It felt like it was a dream all along.
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You woke up in a single instant and a flash of heat swept over you, why does this seem so familiar? You weren't wearing your black cloak and it sat on your bed. You look down at the black sweater that Mabel gave you, though it wasn't on you. Your black combat boots were replaced with Greek leather sandals that were slightly worn off. Your dark blue jeans were now short gray shorts (they looked very similar to Dipper's). And your classic white T-shirt was now a gray tank top that matched your shorts.
You looked down at your gauze-covered left hand. It felt strangely familiar with how it was. The layer of gauze was not that thick, so you could move your hand freely. You looked at both sides of your hand with confusion. It looked like you could beat someone up. You looked at the blood that seeped through, the splotches were in the same place as you remembered. I mean- I could beat someone up... But I won't do it if it's not needed. Wait... What about Gideon? He surely needs a punch in the face.
What kind of weird Deja Vu is this?
You slowly walk down the stairs. You almost fell off at the end because you were in such deep thought. You walked over to the vending machine to get yourself a Pitt Cola. You inserted the coin and unfortunately, the vending machine must've glitched out because you instead received some plain sparkling water. I-it happened again...
You walked outside drinking your sparkling water, "Hello, everybody... Does this morning seem weirdly familiar to you?" Mabel and Giffany were talking to each other before. And Dipper was standing next to the door with a strange face of deep thought. They all greeted you back and Mabel remarked, "Love your outfit, Y/N!" You, with a wry and suspicious smile, thanked Mabel and she chuckled suspiciously, "Where did 'ya get the shorts from?" You stopped drinking your sparkling water and looked down at your shorts, then glanced at Dipper's shorts. You turn back to Mabel and chuckle, "Mhm, I stole 'em from Dipper's drawer." You sarcastically said to Mabel. Mabel giggled and Dipper groaned quietly to you, "Off topic here, but I agree. This morning seems too familiar..." You rolled your eyes and decided to shout to Mabel to fend her off (you wanted to talk to Dipper more), "IT WAS A JOKE!" Mabel said, still giggling, "Or is it?" "It is made by the same company and that explains the similarity, but that doesn't mean it's his!" You yelled out, annoyed. Mabel kept on giggling, you knew you had to say something about it. You rolled your eyes and sighed, "It's weird, think about it. I'm eleven, he's thirteen... I'm a girl, he's a boy... Your whole thing has made you think that other girls are obsessed with boys too. Just to be clear: I'm not the type of girl to get a partner," You took a giant gulp of your sparkling water because your mouth got dry from all the talking. Dipper said something to Mabel, "Yeah, she's too keen to ever be lovestruck by some... Just some guy! Especially me!"
"Love is stupid. Love is just a whole conspiracy made by candy companies to sell more sweets on Valentine's Day," You said. To the left of you, you heard Stan, "HA! I knew it! I knew I wasn't goin' crazy!" You got a jumpscare from him and stayed silent with an even more surprised face. Stan leaned closer to you and whispered, "And I think Santa Klaus is just a scheme made by the toy company to sell more toys." You stayed silent. "Welp, your injured hand explains the blood on the floor. 'Ya know you'll have to clean that up, right?" Stan remarked out of nowhere. You sighed with a concerned face, "Yeah..." "What happened to your hand? Just asking..." Stan said. You paused thoughtfully before saying, "Ford says it's a curse. It gave me deep cuts and my hand bled..." Stan nodded, "Curses will do that to 'ya!"
Mabel gasped, "HOW DARE YOU SAY THAT LOVE IS STUPID!?" There was total silence afterward, but then Giffany commented, "I love Soos.!?" Mabel turned to Giffany, "Girl, you need to move on! Soos had a girlfriend!" Mabel grabbed Giffany by her wrist and dragged her away, saying to her, "We're going to find you a new boyfriend! And I am the best matchmaker out here!" Giffany was silent as a confused pancake. Mabel and Giffany were out of the scene. I-I remember this...
Stan took a small sip of his soda, and remarked out of the blue, "'Ya know kid, today is Pioneer Day. June 18 as always." Dipper said, "What?" You looked at Dipper with concern and said, "Dipper?" Stan took a very long sip of his soda before explaining, "Every year these Yahoos dress up like idiots to celebrate the day Gravity Falls was founded." You responded, "I think I've heard of such a thing before..." Dipper nervously stood silent and pulled out a very old-looking key. You looked at it in confusion until Stan decided to share his experience, "I got thrown in the stocks and got tomatoes thrown at my face." You stood silent too.
Stan rolled his eyes, "But... Since you're new to Gravity Falls, I guess it wouldn't hurt to show you around on Pioneer Day..."
"NO!" You and Dipper yelled to Stan at the same moment. A strange silence arose as you and Dipper looked at each other with concerned and confused faces. Stan said, "Oh? Well, lucky me... I hate Pioneer Day. I won't have to walk out there!" Stan took another sip of his Pitt Cola. You and Dipper stood quietly and then Dipper said, "Can you excuse us for a moment?" Stan looked at Dipper, "You're excused."
You and Dipper went behind the Mystery Shack. Dipper looked down, "I knew it! I knew this morning felt strangely familiar!" You looked away from Dipper, "Dipper... Didn't we already go through June 18 together?" Dipper's mouth dropped, "Yes! Yes, we did!" You gasped, "I knew there was something nostalgic about this morning!" Dipper asked, "Y/N, do you still have that camera?" "The one that was supposed to be a present?" Dipper shouted happily, "Yes! That one!" Your mouth dropped too, and you pulled the camera out of your pocket. Dipper looked at it, and with an instant, "H-How!?" You look at him, "Remember that deep crater thing?" Dipper nodded, "Yeah. After you jumped in, I pushed Gideon out of spite and jumped down with you." You commented, "I think it was caused by the portal gun machine thing. I think it might've caused/been some sort of wormhole that caused us to be transported at the very beginning of the day!" You commented, "I think we're stuck in some sort of loophole!" Dipper said, "Doesn't that mean that- that McGucket is still building that machine!?" You paused and nodded. Dipper gasped, "Doesn't that mean that..." "We will have to stop McGucket from building/activating that machine," You said. Dipper said, "We will have to break the loophole!" "But how?.." You asked. Dipper stood in deep thought, "The crater was caused by McGucket's machine. So we will need to warn him about it!" "But will he believe us?" You asked. Dipper smiled, "Y/N! You still have that camera! You can show him the footage of what happened!" You gasped, "You're right!" "Let's go now, no time to waste!" You grabbed Dipper by his collar before he ran off. "Wait won't it be a good idea to grab Grunkle Ford along? I mean- they're friends. I think McGucket would believe him. He didn't even meet us yet in this timeline." Dipper paused and thought about it, "You're not wrong..."
You went inside the Mystery Shack and yelled, "GRUNKLE FORD!" He came almost tumbling from downstairs, "Yes, Y/N? What's the matter? Do you need to fight an alien octopus or something?" Dipper shouts, "What? No! We need you to come with us!" Ford came down the stairs properly, and that's when you noticed that he had random ash on his face. You decided not to question him about it but instead asked, "Are you busy?" "No, not really. I was just trying to build something with Mabel." Mabel comes up from upstairs, "Hi, guys! Grunkle Ford and I were trying to make a smoke machine!" Ford shook his head and turned to you, "And as you see by the ash on my face, it didn't go too well." Mabel went back inside her room. Ford sighs, "I guess I could come. What for?" You shout, "Dipper and I actually come from the future! Fiddleford McGucket is trying to build a portal gun thing. He messes up in his space-time calculations and accidentally makes a doomsday machine!" Dipper adds, "A wormhole appeared because of it and it send us back to today morning! We're stuck in a time loop and the only way to stop it is to stop McGucket from building the machine!"
You heard Soos behind you as he was holding a mop and said nonchalantly, "Yeah, and then there was this whole thing where we tried to honor our final moments. We held up torches and chanted. The world is ending, fear the machine." You and Dipper look back at him in surprise as Ford looked blankly at him. Dipper yelled out, "HOW DO YOU REMEMBER THAT?" Soos chuckled, "Right after you pushed Gideon and went down to find Y/N, I decided to also join." Ford stood up and pushed his glasses up, "It just seems crazy enough for it to be true." You and Dipper looked back at him in happiness. You held up the camera to show Ford, "We even have footage!" Ford's face lit up, "Give me the memory card." You take out the card and give it to Ford, no questions asked. He walks over to the table, gets his laptop, and puts the memory card in. It plays a bit of the video. Right when you were given the camera. Ford checks the date and time, "June 18, an hour from now..." He closes the laptop and says, "I believe you guys... Now let's go tell my old friend F!" Soos raises his hand, "Can I come?" Dipper sighs, "Sure."
You walk out of the Mystery Shack, and Ford asks, "I haven't been in Gravity Falls for a long time... Where is F?" "He lives at the mansion," You said. Ford nodded and said, "Right..." You all ran off to find McGucket. Soos had a hard time catching up, so he was behind you all.
You finally reached the mansion, it took a while, a long while. Everyone was tired. Ford barged the door open, and you all ran in (with Soos being the last). Ford slides to an entrance and finds McGucket, with you and Dipper behind Ford, and Soos behind you. "NO!!!" Ford yells out, outstretching his six-fingered hand, signaling McGucket to stop.
McGucket was about to press the button that would start the machine. As he saw Ford, he stopped. He had gotten a nostalgic look as he saw Ford. He took his hand off the simple button and said, "Stanford, my old friend..."
Ford was huffing, standing still in his position. McGucket came over to Ford and said, "What's the matter?" Ford sighed, relieved, "F, good to see you again..." McGucket stood silent as he was looking at Ford, crosseyed. Ford explained, "These are my friends..." You come up to McGucket and say, "Look, you don't know me, but I know you. Dipper, Soos, and I come from the future. We know that you are building a portal gun thing. But you messed up in your calculations, and it created a doomsday machine. I was pushed into a wormhole and some of my friends came along. And now we're here to stop this time loop." You took the laptop that Ford was holding, "It'll be easier to understand if I showed you." You open it up and play the recording. You skip to the part where McGucket runs up yelling about it:
McGucket: "AAAAAHHHHH! I HAVE MADE A MONSTER! A MONSTER!"
Y/N: "I-I'm Dipper's friend, F/N L/N..."
Dipper: "That's Fiddleford McGucket, an old friend of Grunkle Ford. He used to be a genius scientist that could build almost anything. He went a bit insane after his memory was erased continuously. He still is very good with robotics-"
McGucket: "Well nice knowing you Y/N. That's okay... Anyway, I'm Old Man McGucket. What happened to your hand? Or do you just wear bandages for no reason like I wear a cast for no reason?"
Y/N: "Yes! I am friends with Ford!"
Y/N: "Now that we know that we are allies... What do you mean you made a monster?"
Dipper: "Do you know why there are earthquakes in Gravity Falls?"
McGucket: "I was trying to build a portal gun thing, but I messed up in my calculations! If you want to travel space-wise, you have to consider timewise! I made a fatal error in space-time mechanics! So now the universe is doomed to collapse on itself! WHAT HAVE I DONE!?"
You skipped to the chanting part:
McGucket: "The world is ending! Fear the machine!"
And finally, you skipped to the part where you got pushed by Gideon:
Gideon: "TAKE. THIS!"
Dipper: "NO!!!"
Soos: "No! Dude, you don't deserve this!"
Gideon: "No! Y/N! I shouldn't have done this! I shouldn't have done this!"
McGucket's mouth dropped, he took off his hat and said, "Thanks for coming to McGucket's Hootnanny Hut to warn me about it..." He walked over to a table and picked up some blueprints and a notebook. He looks over it for a minute, and his eyes widen, "And you're right! I have made a fatal error in my calculations!" He looks at Ford and says, "Thank you for coming here with me... And Y/N..." McGucket turned to you, "Thanks for warning me about it." He looks back at the machine and scratches his bald head, "Welp, I should probably disassemble this! Bye, everyone! Come and maybe visit sometime... Maybe." Ford smiles and waves goodbye, "Bye, I hope to see you soon." McGucket smiles and waves too.
You, Ford, Dipper, and Soos walked away from the mansion. Ford turned to Dipper and you, "Thanks for telling me about this. We prevented a whole disaster!" Soos says, "I couldn't imagine living this day again! That would be horrible, dude." Ford turns to you specifically, "Glad you had a camera on you the entire time!" You chuckled and looked away, "I-it's no big deal, Dipper bought it for me as a present..." Ford smiles at Dipper and he smiles back.
"Hey, since you recorded pretty much the whole day... Why don't we watch it like a movie? Falling down a wormhole sounds very interesting," Ford suggested. You raised your eyebrows at Ford, and played a part from the video:
Pacifica: "You have popcorn bits in your teeth, hon."
Y/N: "Do I?"
Dipper: "I-I don't know..."
Y/N "Speaking of popcorn... What about we watch a movie tonight?"
Dipper: "Are you serious?"
Y/N: "I don't know... I was just thinking of watching something old-timey with our friends. Maybe with Grunkle Stan, Grunkle Ford, Mabel, Soos, Wendy... You know, just have some fun!"
Dipper: "Sounds like a good idea!"
You laughed and said, "That also happened today... Yesterday? Tomorrow?.. Wait, no, alternate timeline!" Ford chuckled, "You said watching old-timey. But we're going to watch something future-timey! O-or alternate-timey!" You all chuckled and went home to the Mystery Shack.
"Hey! I finally got that fog machine working!" Mabel called out to Ford as soon as he opened the door. "Really? It would be a great addition to the thing we're about to watch!" Mabel giggled in excitement as you explained the situation. Stan set up the projector, Mabel and Ford set up the fog machine, you and Dipper set up the seats, and Soos and Wendy brought snacks. It was getting dark, so the projection was clear to see. As soon as it was all set up and done, Ford announced, "Welcome to Alternate Timeline! Whereas the events of today were much different than what it was! Dipper, Y/N, and Soos got to live out an alternate timeline where June 18 led to a certain doomsday!" Stan cheered in the background, "Whoo! Doomsday!" Ford cleared his throat and moved out of his way to reveal you, Dipper, and Soos, "Let's hear what the main characters themselves have to say!" You say, "I was the one who recorded the whole event!" Dipper joined in, "I was the one who gave Y/N the camera!" And Soos added, "And I don't know what I did, dudes!"
The rest of the night was spent watching the recording. Ford took notes all the way through so that it could be rẽ̴̬̐p̴͍̒͛o̴͓̱̅̇r̴̟͆t̶̨̟̋̿ê̸̺͘d. Stan laughed all the way through (almost choked on the popcorn). Soos sat quietly and ate pizza. Dipper, sitting next to Wendy, was embarrassed as Wendy chuckled at the part where Dipper mentioned he had a crush on her. And Mabel giggled at that part too. You, on the other hand, were sitting behind the sets as you watched the recording on your phone.
You quietly sat there thinking about something, yet your mind was blank at the same time. You suddenly heard ringing in your ears, "Remember that poem? Contorted, distorted, recorded, reported?" "Yeah, Bill, I remember it..." "Well, THANK ME!" He laughed frenziedly and disappeared without a trace. You realize that the recording almost ended, it was at the part where you get pushed off by Gideon. You sigh, walk over to the projector, and turn it off, "That's the conclusion..." You said, being thoughtful about something else. Stan yells out angrily, "GIDEON!" Wendy boos jokingly, "Boo!.. There was no me in it!" Mabel squeals, "It was like a real movie! A start, some romance, spooky stuff, and a betrayal!" Ford stands up and pushed up his glasses, "How interesting..."
Everyone looks at you and applauds. You look at them, realizing they were doing so. You were in a deep state of thought. Yet you look at your friends and smile, you bow down to them and say, "Thank you very much! That was how everything was today, in an alternate timeline, from my point of view!" You were happy with how things turned out. You saw Ford's face as he smiled wholeheartedly at you. You smiled back and gave him a thumbs up.