The Geeks Get The Girls

Friday September 4th, 2020

Broken Tree Bar

Beaverton, OR

Dipper Pines sat at a table in the off campus bar on the first friday after his twenty-first birthday wondering how he even got there, he wasn't much of a drinker before he turned twenty-one and he really didn't plan on changing that tonight. But his sister and her girlfriend showed up at his Bear Mountain University apartment last night and told him that since he had to miss their birthday, because one of his courses starting early, that they were going out partying tonight.

He had been able to Squeek with her and the family once he got back from his class on Monday. But apparently that had not been good enough for her or Pacifica. Pacifica, man that was still strange to think about. After the fall out from that summer eight years ago he thought he would never see anyone from Gravity Falls again.

At first when they got back to Piedmont everything seemed to be fine. Their parents were ecstatic that they had fun with their great Uncle Stanford. They were a little shocked to find out about the whole Stanley/Stanford situation but believed the cover story that Stan had agreed to watch over the property for Ford when he needed to go abroad for his studies suddenly and had agreed to take over as him to keep up his credentials in the US. His faked death came supposedly came after an ex who had become a stalker had tracked him down and threatened to ruin things for Ford, so Stan had rashly decided that "Stan" had to die. Yeah. It sounds complicated but the old shyster pulled the wool over everyone's eyes again, especially after Grampa Shermie remembered some of Grunkle Stan's old habits from when they were all kids.

He and Mabel stayed in touch with most of the gang for awhile through email, Squeek, and phone calls. Melody moved back to Gravity Falls, Wendy stayed on at the Shack and worked weekends once school started, Candy and Grenda fell under the protection of Pacifica and all of them prospered. We all thought "Never Mind All That" was gonna be able to suffice and then the national news broke the story of Weirdmageddon. While the locals all subscribed to the agreement to keep everything quiet, apparently one of the tourist families that got caught up in everything did not. They had recorded nearly everything and after sitting on it a few months trying to figure out if they thought anyone would believe them they sold the video to some publicist who in turn spread it among the networks. Within days the town was descended upon by wanna be occult experts and news crews from around the world.

Then the government came, they bought all of the land in the valley and forced everyone out. There's now a military base and federal think tank that covers the whole area and who knows what they have found. Last he had heard Soos and his abuelita had first moved in with one of his cousins (not cousin Reggie's though, he had to move also) and finally they moved to Florida. Wendy and her family moved even further north to a family members logging company and they lost touch.

And the Stans, well once his parents saw the video and realized that they had been lied to. Well it didn't sit good with them. They basically disowned the Stans. That and the loss of the Shack took a toll on Stan. A couple of years after the the loss of while the brothers and Fiddleford were out at sea, Stan had a heart attack. He was airlifted by the Swedish coast guard copter to a hospital but they were unable to resuscitate him. Dipper and Mabel didn't find out about it till six months later. Ford had sailed off and no one has heard from him since.

Dipper and Mabel had tried to get to the town the summer before they started college, but the valley was closed off due to the military think tank. They did happen to encounter one of the gnomes, it seems that sometime shortly after the government took over the valley someone snuck into the area and destroyed several key areas (the Mystery Shack, Ford's bunker, the hill where the shuttle was, and McGuket's lab in the old northwest mansion) before helping the area's cryptids flee the government. The gnome (His name was Steve) had come back in an attempt to reclaim an old family heirloom but the weirdness field that once keep the weird in the lil town now prevented it from entering.