Through The Triplet's Eye: A Gravity Falls Fanfiction

Back To The Future

Ah! Ha! Ha!" Dipper pats the fire on his hat out hurriedly, preventing the damage it caused from exacerbating. We three lock eyes, smiling at each other and run off to the fair, Stan announcing loudly to everyone that it was 12pm via his megaphone. We walk over to the same spot we left off, Dipper grinning at us. "Do-over?" 

"Do-over," Mabel agrees, both of them running to their respective attractions and repeating what they did. I wait in the middle, twiddling my thumbs and sitting on a bench to wait for them. The twins eventually run back to me, Dipper's mission turning out unsuccessful while Mabel's successful as expected. We join hands again, Dipper sending us all back in time to the exact same spot and time.

After a countless amount of time travelling, each of them entailing Dipper invariably missing the bottles and hitting Wendy in the eye with the baseball, I finally decided to pull him over and have a chat with him. "Dipper, stop. You're going to miss again if you don't do the maths and formulate a plan."

"You're right, thanks Magnus!" Dipper smiled gratefully, using a marker pen he somehow obtained to write a series of complex mathematical equations and draw a few graphs on a nearby popcorn stand, each of them increasing in difficulty. 'I'm duly impressed, even some teenagers my age in my universe wouldn't know how to do this.'

Dipper rubs his chin in thought. "There's one variable missing..." 

Mabel pops up in front of Dipper. "What's a variable?" 

"Well, a variable is-" I get cut off by Mabel.

"Forget I asked that question," Mabel said hurriedly, preventing me from elaborating any further.

"You're no fun," I sighed, evidently disenchanted that I was denied the opportunity to explain the word to her.

Dipper abruptly gasps beside us, looking well chuffed with himself. "That's it! I've figured out to win the toss, not hit Wendy, and stop Wendy and Robbie from going out!" 

I take a look at his equations and graphs again, checking them for errors or potentially any perfunctory mistakes. It was only then that I realised there was one more solution to the situation at hand, meaning there were two good or happy outcomes to this situation, not just the one good outcome that was presented in the show.

I ran off to the ball stand and found that Dipper already won Wendy the panda-duck she wanted so badly without hurting her eye. I eye him from a distance, seeing him going off with Wendy to the Tunnel Of Love.

I wanted to zoom off to the pigpen to search for Mabel, who I knew had already lost Waddles to Pacifica. I didn't need to, however, as in an ephemeral period of time, Mabel came up to me weeping and wailing in agony.

"Calm down, Mabel. Tell me what happened," I soothe, even though I already knew what happened.

Mabel lets out a plaintive sigh. "We messed up the timeline! Pacifica saw the flyer and won Waddles before I did! She TOOK Waddles, Magnus!" 

"Now that isn't ideal," I admit, shaking my head repeatedly. "We have messed up the timeline and the very fabric of space-time. We need to get Dipper and fix this mess NOW!" 

As soon as I finish my sentence, Dipper comes out of The Tunnel Of Love attraction with Wendy, coming over to us as soon as Wendy leaves him to get some food.

"DIIIPPPERRR!!" Mabel howls, running up to her brother.

Dipper looks at her in concern, then looks at me silently for an explanation. I point at her, signalling for him to listen to what she had to say. "What's wrong, Mabel?" 

Mabel gives Dipper the same explanation she gave to me. "Pacifica took Waddles, Dipper! She saw the flyer before I did and won Waddles before I did!" 

Dipper pats Mabel on the back. "I'm sorry, Mabel."