As Old as time, second part

Forgotten Memories

Skià pov

Stan and Gravity Falls are being investigated by the men in black and Dipper and Mabel manage to summon zombies on accident while throwing a party. But we were able to get rid of the zombies and the men in black left after seeing the zombies and not being able to do anything about it. I am sure that they will be back though.

The problem is that Stan definitely found my page and remade the portal. So after my siblings go to bed I sneak down to the portal room where I see Stan at the controls. "What did I say about opening the portal again?"

"That it's dangerous and could end the world. But we have to bring Stanford back." I can tell that no matter what I say he will try to open the portal so I decide to compromise.

"Alright. You can work on opening the portal as long as you keep me in the loop. I do not particularly want the world to end but I know that you are going to try whether I try to stop you or not so I might as well help so I can add safety measures. Also do not go through my room."

"Sounds like a plan. I'm glad to have you agree with me on this." I nod and start typing on the computer next to him to add more safety protocols. Unfortunately I have to be more careful because now they know that Stan knows about the mysteries of Gravity Falls and I am pretty sure that they have picked up on the fact he is hiding things from them.

Dipper found Stanford's old bunker and had an interaction with his shape shifter and they went golfing with Stan. I stayed in working on safety measures for when the portal was done. But I did have time to make it to the puppet show that Mabel put on. Bill did cause a bit of trouble during her show though and lost body privileges for a few days.

Soos found Fiddleford's old laptop in the bunker and fixed it up so Dipper has been trying to figure out the password. But while he was out I took it and logged in to see all the research from him and Stanford and a bit from me because we worked together for a very short time. I look it over to see if I missed anything during the rebuild and get a few things. I put them in a notebook before logging out of the laptop and putting it back where Dipper had it before.

The laptop got destroyed but Dipper kept the pieces and when Mabel got a letter from Mermando in a bottle they saw that the laptop was made in McGucket laboratories. This made them believe that Fiddleford was the author of the journals and I must say that they are surprisingly close to being correct.

"It makes so much sense."

"I suppose it does. However that does not mean that it is necessary the right answer. What if it was there because he worked with the author or something."

"You make a fair point. I would say that we ask him but I don't think he would really answer."

"True. You would have to find another way to clarify if it is true." He nods and starts mumbling to himself about ways to tell if McGucket is the author or if he worked with him. I, of course, already know who the author is but it would be hard to explain and also I am curious about what happened to Fiddleford.

Dipper grabs my hand after a few minutes and drags me downstairs as Mabel follows. We get Wendy and Soos on the way out the door and then head to the juck yard to find Fiddleford.

He invited us in and then fights with his reflection. "You can drop the act. We know that you are a genius!"

"Me a genius?" He says clearly confused. Then he tells us that he cannot have been a genius before Dipper shows him the laptop and the journal. He has no reaction until a page about the society of the blind eye. I wrack my brain to try and figure out where I know that from.

When it clicks everything makes sense. Fiddleford formed it to help with the general population's reaction to the supernatural existence in Gravity Falls. I did warn him about the affects of messing with memory but clearly he did not listen. He must have used his device on himself too many times leading to him losing his memory all together.

I am pulled out of my thoughts by Dipper dragging me out of the tent like thing that Fiddleford lives in and into the car. We drive to the museum where it appears that Fiddleford lost the last bits of his memory.

We sneak in and look around until Dipper spots someone in a cloak so we follow them but it leads to a dead end. I can sense souls beyond the wall so there must be a secret opening. It does not take long for Dipper to find the button to open the passage and then we watch the society erase the memory of gnomes from a woman. Once they leave we look around the room and Dipper leaves with the other boys to try and find Fiddleford's memories.

I lay around as Wendy and Mabel discuss romance. Eventually Mabel decides to erase her memories of the failed romances she had this summer. "I would not do that if I were you."

"Why not?"

"We do not know the possible side effects of such a device." Mabel pouts but does not seem to move to use the device again. Suddenly an alarm starts going off and the society members come into the room and restrain us. I am curious about what they know so I let it happen.

Soon enough the boys other than Fiddleford are dragged into the room as well. The society members explain why they were formed and what they do before showing us who they all are because 'we are going to erase your memories anyway.' so that is interesting.

Before I can break us out so our memories are not erased, though I doubt it would work on me, Fiddleford comes in and breaks us out himself. He then approaches the man who shoots him with the machine but it does nothing as he used it so much on himself.

We end up tying them all up and erasing their memories of the society of the blind eye before I slip the machine into my shadow and we watch Fiddlefords memories. He talks about the terrible things that he has done and how it all happen while he worked with a traveling researcher. He talked about how he left when the researchers brother came and he still felt bad for the things he might have done to the world. So he erased his memories, so many times that he forgot everything.