Gravity Heroes

Chapter 37

Inside the Bunker

Tony was hauling some cable down the hall that was eventually gonna be the kitchen when he noticed he was the only one working in this hall. Once he got the cables stretched out till the end he went off the find his brother. As he made it to the tunnel he had veered off from he heard voices coming from one of the other off shoots.

"So why did you leave like that yesterday?", he heard Candy ask.

Tony knew a good bit of the story, his brother told him before they went to bed last night. After getting the news about Dipper and Mabel's mother yesterday, Francis had went ahead and gone to the Museum with Candy like they had originally planned for the day. Less than a quarter of the way through it though Candy told him she could tell he wasn't having the fun the two of them had hoped. When she had asked if it was her fault that the date was going bad, he had finally told her about the accident. He had thought that since she wasn't really his mother that it wouldn't have affected him, but his memories of her proved him wrong and he broke down crying. They spent the rest of the date on a bench out on a bench near the Museum, with Candy consoling him. When he finally walked her to her door, he took a chance and gave her a quick little kiss before he turned to leave. He had arrived back at the shack in time to join Tony and Ford in going to the basement.

"I didn't want to know if I had screwed up," he heard Francis say, "After Dipper and Mabel's mother's death, I realized that none of us are certain what will happen next. I knew I liked you, so my heart told me to just do it. But no sooner had I done it, as looked at you I saw the shocked look on your face and I felt I may have made a mistake. So I left before you could tell me that you just wanted to be friends. I'm sorry I messed things..."

The next thing Tony heard was what sounded a muffled, umph. Then he heard Candy say, "I thought you left due to me not kissing you back, I am sorry. It is not that I did not like it, it was just a shock."

"So you didn't mind?", Tony heard Francis ask.

"No, I just was not expecting it so soon. I thought it would be another date or two before that happened," Candy said as Tony walked away to give them more privacy.

Gravity Falls First National

The inside of the bank is like most others with the velvet ropes that lead the patrons to to the tellers behind their counters and a vault that holds the bi-weekly payroll for both the Northwest factory and the nearby lumberjack company. Currently though the tellers and the patrons who were unlucky enough to have been in the bank when the group of robbers had entered were all tied together barricading both the doors and the only window in the building. The only people moving freely were the bank robbers them selves. They all wore at least one piece of clothing the was seemingly splattered with a purple mesh design.

"Well boys, what are we gonna do now." the short haired blond said as she looked at her compatriots, "The only reason we came to this podunk town is cause Toast-T there," pointing to the guy who was missing his left hand, "thought it'd be easy to rob a small town bank."

Toast-T looked at her and replied, "Hey Barbi, don't blame me that some fat punk was able to hide his cell phone and called the cops. Duster," he was point to a large African American guy in a black trench coat with the purple mesh design covering it, "was in charge of getting all of the items from the rubes."

"Oh shut yer yap, boy.", Duster said looking at the taller of the two brothers, "It was your brother, the Wiz, and his little gadget that was supposed to help crack the safe so easy and quick that we should've been outta here before now."

"And my designs should've worked, especially on a small town bank vault like this one should have had. But for some reason this backwater burgh has a state of the art vault that with out the proper codes could take weeks to open," Wiz said as he looked over at the box he had attempted to use on the vault.