Gravity Falls REBORN

Hide Your Kids, Hide Your Wallet!

I wake up to the smell of failure. Just kidding, failure doesn't have a smell, but I do wake up to a tingling sensation running through my right arm. 'What in the world?'  I raise my arm up to my eyes and see that nothing is out of the ordinary, but the sensation gets more severe. I try to ignore it and go back to sleep, but laying down makes it worse, so I get up and rub my eyes, adjusting to the bright room from the sunlight seeping in the big window, and climb down my ladder.

Going down the stairs, I blatantly stare at my hand the entire way. I lower it after it doesn't seem to want to go away anytime soon and head into the gift shop, where, at this time of day, Mabel and Dipper should be around here. I walk outside, strategically stepping past Wendy and her friends on the way, who are making a big mess.

"Uhhh." I stand still, just after turning around from shutting the door, and point at the giant bag Dipper is dragging up.

"Macie! I caught something amazing!" Dipper's eyes grow wide with his excitement.

"Yup! I told him to go and catch a real exhibit for the tour!" Mabel beams, her shoulders protruding from, what I assume, are shoulder pads.

"That's uh, great...what the heck happened to your arm?" I point to his battered arm.

"What? Oh this?" He pulls up his arm and looks it over, "I just had a hard time wrangling up this guy, is all." He jabs his hand to behind him, the bag wriggling.

"Does it hurt? Any, weird feelings?" I try not to sound dumb or weird, but given the twin looks, I think I failed.

"Uh, well, when I first got hit, I hit my funny bone and it was tingling, it's died down right now..." Dipper and Mabel share looks. Thinking quickly, I spot Soos cowering behind a port-a-potty, wearing his new costume.

"*Gasp* Look, Mabel!" I point toward Soos, "Who's that? Is it Questiony the Question Mark?" I smile as my plan succeeds as her smile goes up, rushing over to him and leaving me and Dipper to talk.

"How did you know that was his name...you weren't at the meeting," I look back to see Dipper pondering, his hand to his chin in said deep thought.

'Change the subject, change the subject!'

"SO!" He jumps, releasing his chin and blinks fast, staring at me, "About your arm, I was awoken from my slumber from a tingling sensation in my arm. It's died down drastically now, like yours."

"That's so weird..." Dipper puts his hand back to his chin, not even acknowledging the jumbo monster in a sack behind him. "Well," he takes his hand off and has it point towards me instead, "remember how me and Mabel's allergies react at the same time..." I nod in affirmation, "Maybe we feel pain together? It's never happened back at home...or ever..." 'I wouldn't remember anyways...'  Dipper's eyebrows furrow in confusion. 'He must be completely baffled.'

"R-right!" He looks up, having me break off his thoughts, "It, it might be something new? I don't know but it's not like it's hurting us or anything...so..." I run out of words to say. We stand in an awkward silence, the occasional monster grunts were the only thing that broke the peace. 'Why is he standing there, like, like he's trying to read me??!' Officially creeped out, I speak up again, "Hey, why don't you set up your fancy new monster for the next tour?" 'Oh gosh I hope he leaves!'

"Oh! Right, uh, okay, yeah, I'll just..." He trails off, pulling the giant sack inside with him. Seeing him vanish from my sight, I let out a huge sigh of relief I didn't know I was holding. 'Welp, that was awkward!'  I sigh and tramp over to the front of the shack, so I don't have to go through Wendy's mess. The door creaks as I slowly open it.