Gravity Heroes

Chapter 64

"You're being what?", Mabel asked before she walked over and hugged Pacifica.

"I'm being emancipated," Pacifica replied as she folded into the hug. She felt a slight tug on the paperwork and released it into Dipper's hand.

Mabel just held her and asked, "Is that even legal?"

"According to this paper work," Dipper said as he looked over the paperwork he had taken from Pacifica, "it is in Gravity Falls. Though we may want to run it by Stan and Ford just to be certain."

"Ok, Ford I can understand. But Stan?", Pacifica asked looking over at Dipper.

"Stan knows more about the laws of Gravity Falls than he let's on," Dipper said putting the paperwork back into it's envelope, "and not just how to get around them. Between the two of them we should be able to get a good idea of the legality of it."

"Well Stan was that way somewhere," Pacifica said waving towards where she had heard his voice coming from earlier.

"And the last place I saw Ford was down in the Bunker last night," Mabel said as she released the hug on Pacifica. She took a hold of her hand and they went off looking for the Grunkles.

Twenty miles outside of Gravity Falls

Handlebar Hideout Bar & Grill

Gideon was seated in front of a TV in the apartment set above the kitchen of the biker bar. He was watching the TV to see if an Amber Alert had been issued over his disappearance, but so far one has not been issued. They had made it out of town last night, under the cover of darkness, to this bar in case Gideon's cousin and her friends were still looking for them. The owner of the bar was a former cellmate of Ghosteyes and upon hearing an edited version of the story, he gladly took them in. Gideon was just getting ready to Ghosteyes had just returned with two cheeseburgers and two orders of fries himself and Gideon.

"I still can't believe my dear sweet cousin would do this to liddle ol' me," Gideon said in between bites.

"Well no man knows what evil lurks in the heart of a woman," Ghosteyes philosophized before he grabbed a couple of fries.

"Well she is the one who started me on the path of my old life," Gideon responded with a look of fond remembrance on his face, "When we lived down in Texas for a couple of years to help out my aunt, Janine used to babysit me. She got me interested in preforming and taught me to use my natural charisma to my own advantages. She helped me develop my act, though it didn't get to be as popular until we returned home and that was in part due to finding my ol' bolo tie. I came to love to preform. The admiration and power I had over my audiences, it was addictive."

With a wistful sigh Gideon resumed eating. Even after they were done, Gideon still looked to be in deep contemplation.

Mystery Shack

Stan's Office

Stan was seated in his office reading Wednesday's paper. He had glanced over the front page since it looked like the new editor was into sensationalized news even more than Toby was. He had just got to the comics when there was a knock on the door.

"Come back later," Stan called.

"We need to talk to you Grunkle Stan," Mabel called through the door, "it's serious."

"Come back later," Stan grumbled even though he had already got up to open the door.

"Come on old man, we need your help!", Pacifica called out to him.