Summer with the Pine Twins

Fight Fighters: Part 2

(y/n)'s p.o.v.

"C'mon Soos! Robbie's like half my size! I mean what'll getting myself killed accomplish? I just need to hide here until three o'clock passes," Dipper says, getting up from his hiding spot before groaning once he noticed the time. "This day will never end!" "Relax Dipper, just try not to think about Robbie," Soos suggests and Dipper jumps when he notices all the Robbie posters and I lead him away to the Fight Fighters game. "You just need to relax and calm down."

Mabel's p.o.v.

"Girl why you ackin' so cray-cray?" The hostess on the show I was watching asks before it went to commercial break. I sigh, today was going to be boring since Dipper was having that fight with Robbie and (y/n) had opted to try and calm him down. "Poor Dipper, having to hide from Robbie, unable to face his fears."

"Fears are for chumps, that's why I don't have any," Grunkle Stan chimes in while making a new attraction for the Mystery Shack. He gets up to get more glue, his hand going into a high cupboard as he struggled to get the glue. (Me) "You want me to go get a ladder?" I ask. "We don't have one."

"What?" I ask, since when did we not have a latter? "You know studies show that a latter inside the house is more dangerous than having a loaded gun. That's why I have ten guns, in case some maniac tries to sneak in a ladder." "Grunkle Stan why you ackin' so cray-cray?" I ask again as he sounded weirder and weirder. "You're the one ackin' so cray-cray! I gotta go now," He walks off and I tap my chin in thought. "Why would Grunkle Stan be so weirded out by ladders?" I ask myself and Waddles, now wishing (y/n) was here so she could tell me.

"Of course! I think he has a secret fear of heights!" I exclaim, Waddles giving me an oink as I tell him "We'll have to test him to be sure or we could be well enough and leave him alone...Nah!"

(y/n)'s p.o.v.

Dipper and I had just started to play Fight Fighters when I heard Dipper grumble to himself. "Stupid Robbie...Such a jerk!" We start the round and fight, I won. "A Winner Never Runs Away From A Fight!!" Rumble exclaims, the subtitles flashing on the screen. "That's easy for you to say, you have more than one life," Dipper mumbles and I place my hand on his, I hated seeing him down. "You're not gonna die, c'mon let's play another round."

Dipper nods and searches his vest for a coin as he told me "I wish one of these guys could fight Robbie for me..." I nod as I placed my coin in the slot stating "That would make it easier but then there's some form of consequences for having someone else pick your fights," Dipper lets out another sigh as he goes to place his coin in the slot when he drops it. "Huh? What's this?" Dipper asks, after kneeling down to pick up his coin.

Dipper rubs dust off the side of the machine as I peek over his shoulder to see what he was looking at. "To unleash ultimate power? Well...I do like things that are ultimate," He picks up his coin and enters it as I look at the code, it seemed familiar...I squint at it, have I seen this before? Once again pain shoots through my head and I shut my eyes as the memory starts.

Years ago:

We walk into the arcade and I look around excitedly as Gram and ßfñødæ3 exchange some bills for coins when the cashier guy started talking to Gram. "So uh...What's a fine lady like yourself doin' in a place like this?" She gives him a look. 

"Spending time with my family..." She tells him trailing off, the guy tips his hat at her as he stated "Well you know...If you're lookin' for some real fun, you could leave the kid with Dust over here and I can take somewhere special," He pointed at dæ3 who was glaring at the man with grit teeth. "Thanks but no," Gram says, lightly pushing me toward the game while dæ3 stayed behind to talk to the guy.

I drag Gram from game to game to game when we finally stopped at a game called Fight Fighters. We had been playing for a couple rounds when ßfñødæ3 finally walks up grumbling under his breath. "ßfñødæ3? What's wrong?" Gram asked, turning to look at him. "That man was trying to flirt with you, now he's challenged me to a fight after his shift ends," He explains, crossing his arms with a frown.

"Why would you do that? You're not your brother," She tried to reason with him. "Eh, I can always with this baby," He pulls out a gun," Gram crosses her arms at him. "You know the rules of a fight ßfñødæ3. That's cheating, tell me you won't use your gun in fact promise me you won't," She tells him with a worried look and he relents.

"I promise I won't use my gun," He tells her, grabbing her hands and they give each other a loving look. I was about to play a round with dæ3 when Gram walked away and he dropped his coin before looking at the side of the machine. "Very interesting," He muttered. Gram and I had gone home and later that day we heard explosions from town and we went to investigate to see a video game character destroying things as he tried to attack ßfñødæ3. When he got the chance he explained how he found the code and used it to bring the character to life to win the fight but the character learned the truth and started to attack him.

Several minutes later and the fight had ended, the video game character gone, ßfñødæ3 beaten into the ground as Gram raced up to him with tears streaming down her face as she held ßfñødæ3 close. "âçgë4...I'm sorry..." He muttered before passing out and Gram turned to me as I watched with tears in my eyes. "(y/n) promise me you won't ever use that code, it might kill someone!" I give her a nod as I helped drag ßfñødæ3 home.

Present:

I blink my eyes as the familiar arcade enters my vision, I hadn't even noticed a few tears were streaming down my face as I quickly whipped my head around to look at Dipper. "Dipper I don't think using the code is-" The machine turns off. "A good idea...?" We give the machine a puzzled look. "I guess it didn't work," Dipper says with a shrug when the machine starts to shake and a bright flash of white shines in our faces, the machine soon asking "SELECT YOUR CHARACTER!"