As Old as time, second part

Parties

Skià pov

Dipper ends up thinking he is not manly enough and gets help to be more manly. He ends up deciding that being manly is not worth losing the things he likes so he gave up on that. Stan decided that we are going to have a party to get a little extra money by charging people to come in.

Soos, one of the workers at the shack is in charge of the music. Dipper and Wendy are in charge of the ticket table and Mabel is planning to use this party to make friends. I did not plan on going but Stan said that I have to at least stay at the party.

When the party starts I stand off to the side to watch over everything. Mabel challenges a local girl to a party off and Dipper asked me if I could watch the ticket table while he checks something and I agree but leave Bill inside because he has been rather well behaved and if he does anything bad he will be stuck in my mind again.

I am sitting at the ticket table taking cash from children when I feel a spike of magic so after I finish the small crowd in front of me I look inside. I spot multiple versions of Dipper but all but one of them have no soul. They seem to be versions of him that are somehow created by magic and the magic is fueling the clones consciousness.

I decide that they are not causing a problem right now and that Dipper needs to learn not to play with things he does not understand so I leave it for now. I do keep an eye on the happenings inside of the party though so if things go bad I can fix it.

I feel him creating more magical clones and sigh. This can only end badly. As expected it only takes about twenty minutes for it to go south. I hear the clones lock Dipper in a closet and decide to let him sit for a moment. He escapes by himself but then the clones go after him and him and the clones start to fight so I head in. After all there is no one out here anymore anyway.

I give Stan the money and head upstairs to where Dipper and his clones are. The moment I get up there I throw a rock at the sprinkler and it turns on. I knew this would destroy the clones because I heard Dipper say that they were made out of paper. I watch as they all melt leaving only the original Dipper behind. "Can you try and think about the consequences of your actions before you make them next time?"

"I'll try."

I look at him and sigh. "I suppose that is the most I can hope for at the moment. Now go to the party and just talk to Wendy. You are getting in your own way."

"Literally." He says before laughing. "I guess you're right. I'll go talk to her." He says before rushing downstairs. I follow slowly after and get to the room where the party is taking place right as they are choosing the best partier out of Mabel and the local girl, Pacifica. Everyone claps loudly for Mabel including me and Dipper, other than Pacifica's friends and once Pacifica goes up only about half the room claps and she threatens most of the other half even paying someone to clap but me, Dipper, Stan and a few other girls do not clap so Mabel wins.

"Whatever. I still am better than you." Pacifica tells Mabel as Mabel gets her crown before turning to the crowd. "Who wants to go to an after party on my parents boat?" Most of the crowd cheers and follows her out. After they leave me, Dipper Mabel, Stan, Wendy and the two girls that only cheered for Mabel are the only ones left. Apparently the girls are Mabel's new friends and they are staying over for the night so Dipper stays in my room on the floor.

After a few days we head out and get stuck in the middle of town. I look around and see people in historically inaccurate clothing walking around. I sigh, it is pioneer day I suppose or perhaps it was founders day. I remember it happening when I was with Stanford helping him. Personally having lived around that time I want no part in their roleplay that mostly does not even follow the actual reality of that time.

Stan gets the car trapped between several covered wagons and asks me to keep an eye on my siblings before trying to run off. I roll my eyes and follow Mabel and Dipper into the crowd. I end up finding out that Pacifica is one of the members of the founding family and that is why she is a popular person here and Mabel gets scolded by her for being too childish. How I am not sure as she is still a child.

She takes being called childish rather seriously though and removes her chip earrings and dog sweater. Dipper quickly pulls her out of her sadness by uncovering the fact that in the journal that he has, the one made by Stanford, it states that Pacifica's family did not actually found gravity falls but he does not know who did. Stanford was never able to figure out the clue.

We go to the library to try to decode it but Mabel makes it into a hat revealing a map. We follow the clues that Mabel finds by using her childishness and eventually end up finding a secret room. We end up finding out that Pacifica's ancestor was actually someone who shoveled animal fecal matter. I looked over to see a man encased in something and he seems to be in some sort of hibernation. I look at it closer while my siblings look around at other things and end up breaking him out by hitting the substance he was encased in.

The police end up letting us know that he was the true founder of gravity falls and that he was the actual ninth president of the United States but it was covered up because he was too childish. The man ends up telling the police men to go on a vacation and then he gives Dipper the presidential key which can, supposedly, open every door in the united States. He makes Mabel a congressman and he gave me a -12 dollar bill before he took off on a horse that he was riding backwards.

After that Dipper shattered Pacifica's obsessive ideas about how perfect her family was and we let Stan out of the stocks he got himself locked in. Apparently he picked a fight to get put there. He got tomatoes thrown at him while he was stuck there which is amusing. When he was released we got the car unstuck from the mud and went back to the mystery shack.