Gravity Heroes

Chapter 1

Monday, September 17th, 2012

Piedmont, California

"See you next year" says the teenager as he rereads the note again for the umpteenth time. It's weird, it's only been a couple of weeks and it already feels like it's been a lifetime since he had received the note as he & his sister were Gravity Falls. All of his friends are back there, heck even Robbie signed the note. He adjusted his now ever present lumberjack cap and looked over the note with a wishful sigh.

"Thinking about Wendy again, bro-bro?", His sister asked as she stood in the doorway to his room.

"Nah, well maybe a lil bit," Dipper says as he sits up on the side of his bed. He folds the letter up and places it inside the blue journal with a silver pinetree emblem on the front of it that he got from his Grunkle Ford. "mostly I'm bored and wishing we had been able to stay with everyone. What I wouldn't give to find a new mystery, run across a gnome, or sheesh I wouldn't even mind seeing Robbie."

"Whoa. I never thought I'd hear you says that last one. You are really missing them aren't you." with that she steps into his room. Even though it's still the same room he's had all his life it still feel weird to Mabel to be back in separate rooms after sharing one all summer.

"It's just there we were doing something, we had friends, family, and here it really almost feels pointless. Yeah our parents are here, but really...", he gets up and starts pacing around his room. "I mean I know they loves us. Really this doesn't feel like home anymore."

Gravity Falls, Oregon

Somewhere in the woods outside of town.

Two boys appear to be out for a run through the woods. Though the path they are on seems to split and turn on a dime, they seem to know it very well as if they travel it daily. They duck under low hanging branches and ump over fallen logs like it was nothing. And through out this run they seem to be carrying on a conversation as if they were taking a slow stroll.

"We need to be more careful, we don't have him around to take the blame if either of us gets caught." Said the boy in the blue/white hat with the #3 on the front as he leads them further into the woods, "It certainly was easier to just take our hat off and walk around town while he was still here."

They continued down the path at leisurely speed.

"You don't have to tell me twice, Tony.", Answered his apparent twin with a #4 on his hat, "I nearly got caught in a bear trap during our last supply run."

"I tried to remind you to not mess around the Corduroy's house, Francis.", the one named Tony replied, "Their whole family are of the 'Shoot First, Ask Questions Later' school of thought, well ok not Wendy. Wait you went there just to see her didn't you?"

"No, no we both agreed to leave her for Dipper. I was there looking for warmer clothes, winter is gonna be here soon. Besides I'm actually more interested in his sister's friend..."

*Rustle*

"Whoa, quiet. Did you hear something?", Francis said as he makes a sudden stop and quickly looks around at his twin not realizing his hat got knocked off by a low branch.

"No.", Tony said as he slowed to see what his twin was looking to find.

*Crack*

"Ok, that time I did. It came from over ther...", turning quickly towards the source of the sound and as he turned to look back at his twin he was shocked to not see him, "Francis? Where'd you go?"