Gravity Falls: The Kids Are Alright

Revelations

"Ok, so you're saying this show is a sequel to one from when your parents were kids that may or may not be an alternate reality." Melody asked after she brought some drinks and chips into the Shack's TV room hoping to help calm down Debbie.

"Yeah, Mrs. Ramirez. Mewni was apparently one of the dimensions that Great Grunkle Ford passed through while he was gone. And Mom and Dad know stuff about this show that some of the most obsessive fans don't even know about." Debbie said as she her friends watched Nova and Connor at their respective houses, both fretting over a school dance. Connor was being told by Jack that He should just ask Nova to go and Nova was being teased by her brother Sol that she should ask Connor to go before Missy does. "There's even a Jason and Linda Conifer that shows up once in awhile. Though they only have one child, a boy named Tyrone. And he looks nothing like Ran."

Mentioning the son of a possible alternate version of her parents reminded Debbie that her parents were out looking for her brother. They've been gone now for, she looked at her phone, ok only fifteen minutes but it felt like forever. They'll call if they find him right.

"Of course they will honey," Melody said as she saw that Debbie didn't realize she had said that last one out loud. Too much like her father there.

Outside

"What do you mean sir?" Meaghan asked from Antonio's arms as she saw Ran's mother tighten her grip on the weapon she had readied.

Ran jumped in between his parents and Meaghan. "Whoa, Mom. Dad. Calm down, what's going on with you two?"

"She may be dangerous Ran, come to us." Wendy said motioning her son to come to her side.

"Sorry mom, but she needs help and I promised to help her. I told her we would help her." Ran said staying put.

"Step away Ran, she's not what she seems." Dipper said as he tried to aim his taser for a better shot at the girl.

"Not gonna happen, dad." Ran said as he kept himself between the taser and Meaghan. "She needs help and I promised her that I would do just that. So what if she is different, so's Harry and MB. But that doesn't matter. She trusts me to help her, so now I need you two to trust me."

At the mention of trust, Dipper flashed back to his own childhood and how he learned despite initially being told to 'trust no one' that he had to trust family and friends. He tried to instill that in his own kids and he would be a hypocrite if he didn't trust in his son now.

He lowered his taser and motioned for Wendy to stand down. "Alright Ran, we'll trust your judgement for now."

"Thank you dad, you won't regret it." Ran said as he ran over and hugged his dad after he had put away the taser.

"Well I still have a question about that whole marriage deal," Wendy added as she joined in on the hug.

"Oh, it is simple. Where I come from there are many stories of our people being tricked into marriages by your kind." Meaghan replied from where Antonio was still holding her.

"Dood, that's messed up. Forced marriages are illegal." Antonio said as he started heading towards the Shack now that things had de-escalated. "Where exactly do you come from that you are hearing this type of information?"

"That's barbaric." Wendy agreed as the rest of the group joined up with them.

"Well I personally haven't heard of any stories happening in my lifetime, but there are many legends of it happening in the past." Meaghan answered in a way. "But as I said, Ran would hear nothing of it."

"Of course he wouldn't, the lil Dood is a great guy. And besides that, he's too young to get married anyways." Antonio said as they finally cleared the woods and made it to the grass pasture. "If you want I can let you down to walk or I can still carry you up to the Shack, it's up to you. It sucks that whoever stole your clothes took your shoes also."