//------------------------------// // Tourist Trap // Story: Fusion Falls (old version) // by madhat886 //------------------------------// ! Dipper was busy as he stacks the shelves with packages of candy from the Candy Kingdom as well as Willy Wonka's candy. Both her and Mabel are working for the summer in The Mystery Shack where tons of displays of things like the Ham-pire, a piece of ham with vampire teeth is on display. Which is just a con that Stan made up to lure in tourist, but he does have several items that are the real deal, like the flesh-eating blanket is kept behind a plastic cage. An old army canteen that never runs out of water, a bottle of cough syrup that also never runs dry, which Stan bottles and sells as Mystery Water and Mystery cough syrup. A chair when anyone sits on it will fart, a giant stone head that breaths, a wheel from an ancient ship creaks, groans, and occasionally thunders. There are also 4 jars of red, green, blue, and yellow slime that all sing in a wordless, barbershop style harmony. There is also the Dollar Bill vending machine that Stan gotten a hold of somehow. It has the upper body of a automaton of a man dress like in old times which can still talk and greet customers. There is even a kinetoscope that shows a Battleship Bay of Columbia where both came from before the floating city came crashing down. After the merge happen it caused things to short out for a couple of minutes before everything powered back on. Which wasn't long enough for the floating city to survive from falling out of the sky, right after they had attack New York City in their world. Which is a good thing as many of the white survivors are all racist bigots of the old times racist, with the other races who survived the fall who were little more than slave labor, finding a more welcoming world then what they're use to in their world. The white racist survivors have been shattered around the country so that the toxic city of theirs couldn't be remade, many of them are struggling to find a new way of life in a world that's so different from what they're use to. With how they think and act many quickly found themselves being beaten or killed, while other found that there were little jobs open to them. Which caused many to settle near the crash site of their old city, which the number of survivors is only a few hundred thanks to how far they fell and that no one wanted to help them in the first place not with their own problems because of the merge. Which left the survivors building a ramshackle settlement where they struggle to survive. Somehow Stan managed to get his hands on some of the surviving items from Columbia. Like some Dimwit and Duke puppets still in the arcade machine of Flawless Flinklock that still works, some toys, a voxophone, and a big doll of some sort of birdman robot. A working Sky-hook in a glass case, alongside with a display of a dozen silver eagles which are real silver coins. There is also a display of fake coins, which the shop sells. And a complete collection of Vigor bottles, Old Man Winter a blue bottle with the top being the upper head of an old bearded and bald man, Ironsides a bottle shape like a ship, Peeping Tom a green bottle shape like a woman covering her chest with a folding hand fan, Possession a green bottle with a woman reclining on top, Bucking Bronco a bronze bottle of the upper half of a horse with a cowboy riding on it, Murder of Crows a blue and black bottle with a crow's head on top, Devil's Kiss a red bottle shape like a female demon, Shock Jockey a purple bottle with a jockey riding on a lightning bolt on top, Charge a green bottle shape like a ram's head, Undertow a blue bottle with a tentacle for the cork, and Return to Sender a bronze bottle shape like an ancient Greek soldier, which are all empty. From what Dipper heard there's a big black market for bottles that still have something in them as well as their counterparts’ plasmids. Seeing how they give people superpowers. Dipper has been reading a lot of newspaper articles since the merge to keep up with all the goings ons. Some are about places he never heard about while others are about more normal things. Like one article showed how the lesser known tech company Prometheus labs had somehow successfully bought out the assets of the now defunct companies of Aperture Science and Black Messa. The article briefly recaps how Black Mesa was apparently the merged happen while it was conducting an extremely dangerous interdemensional experiment, details are still sketchy. But it seems the merger blunted most of potentially disastrous consequences that COULD have happened. But it still devastated the nearby cities. Many of the staff was arrested and the rest of the company’s assets were liquidated. And Aperture science...well it was basically a death trap run by a lunatic, so that was liquidated as well. It briefly mentioned how the new government agency SCP were still helping the ongoing Vortignaut refugee crisis, before summing up the article on how Prometheus lab had now reorganized/renamed itself as the now promising tech superpower Anderson Robotics... how was now giving a large reward for info the missing S.S. Borealius. (1) Mabel was busy out back feeding the live attractions that Stan managed to get somehow. One is a piranha plant that people pay to feed, the same goes for the Scampfire a spider like thing that is a living campfire that people pay overprice marshmallows to feed. There 5 vampire fruit bats in a large walk-in bird cage, a jackalope in its own pen and an orthros name Frank who is a two headed dog all from Equestria who acts as the guard dog for the shack. There is also the strider the machine animal that Stan gotten into a pen and used to make the bio-fuel called blaze it makes from the plant matter it eats. There are also two other human employees who work at the shack with them. There's Soos the handyman of the shack who can fix just about anything and Wendy who works behind the counter. There is also the Mr. Handy that Stan somehow got his hands on who helps and repairs the machines around the shack. Both the twins were told not to bother the Mr. Handy as it is dangerous if handled wrong. The Mr. Handy's are from the Robco company that makes them along with Protectrons. Because of them being radioactive they're a hot issue in having them around but because of how useful they are, they been rebuilt to be able to use the power cells of the machine animals. Of course, there are the rogue ones and older models that are still around, who came from a bad future where most of the world is a radiation filled wasteland. Dipper has no idea if the Mr. Handy Stan has is one of the older types or not. The Mr. Handy has the standard pincer arm, buzz-saw and torch arms. Stan has named the Mr. Handy, Rusty seeing how it was rusty till Soos fix it up by ordering replacement parts. Stan has also showed the twins around town when they went into town for supplies. Since the merge and the close location to Equstia, Canterlot City, and the Candy Kingdom, people have been moving into the town for a cheaper place to live. There is alot of construction work being done around the town with new homes and apartment buildings being built. And with new people new stores and businesses are also opening around the region. There is also a mall in the town which is also a big draw for people who drive along the highway to stop by. Which also draws people from the nearby town of Peach Creek which doesn't have a mall. Peach Creek is a suburban town that ended up next to Gravity Falls after the merge, consisting of newly built houses sitting on the edge of some larger town or city that can be seen looming away on the horizon before the merge happen. Peach Creek still maintains its suburban roots, with all types of greenery including the woods and the creek. Yet Peach Creek still has some traces of urban development, such as the junkyard, the construction site and the trailer park. It also has a downtown area with many highways leading in and out. Which the highways were either destroyed or became a part of the new highway that leads out of the valley, connecting to either Equestria, Canterlot or the Candy Kingdom. There is also the Maw, which is now like one of those mega blocks in those future sci-fi cities where it is like an entire city within one building. When it first appeared after the merge people didn't know what it was till, they look inside and found a horror show within. There were these sagging, gluttonous creatures that look human but were so big and fat. They attack and ate some of the first people who enter the Maw, causing the highway patrol and the local police to seal it off till a swat team could be sent to handle it along with the national guard. Which took a couple of days with all the chaos that was happening after the merge. By then the guests as they were called from the ship’s logbook called the creatures, had eaten just about everything and turn on each other. A search of the ship found the owner of the Maw who was a tall slender woman who dressed as a geisha and wore a mask to hide her ugly face. She been dead for several days with no signs of how she was killed. Her personal journals revealed much of her world and what happens to the guests who board the Maw, not to mention the children that she brings on board. They become food for the new guests who come on board. Searching the Maw and dealing with the remaining guests and the giant leeches that walk on two legs. They found the remaining children who still lived, as well as the gnome like creatures who are children who were transformed by the Lady. They also found the Janitor with both his arms cut off and had died of blood lost. An old woman was found in a flooded section of the lower levels, having been killed when a tv fell into the water she was found in while it was still plugged in. Shadow creatures with porcelain masks, who were wipe out by flashlights. A creature found in the shoe pit that was hunted down and killed. But for the two chefs they found no trace of them. Once it was empty of dangerous creatures, the Maw become home to people that had nowhere else to go. Which started when Lumpy Space Princess moved in taking it over along with Marceline the vampire queen and Simon Petrikov. Followed by them came the house people who seek a safer place to live, along with Donny the grass ogre who was no longer needed to be a jerk to keep the Why Wolves from eating the house people. Followed by more and more as time went by, with Simon Petrikov acting as the mayor of the Maw. Who also have a bunch of Mr. Handy's, Protectrons, and Securitrons who act as guards and work crew to keep up the upkeep of the Maw. How they got ahold of all those robots is something that Lumpy Space Princess just said that she found them near Las Vegas, in a warehouse or something. How she managed to reprogram them and everything not to mention how she got all of them to the Maw. Which is a really long story that many just give up on listing to seeing how Lumpy Space Princess kept changing the story with each retelling. With the only thing staying the same is that she was near Las Vegas when she found them, and people just gave up. Simon been rebuilding the Maw using the robots to make the manmade island. Some of it became living spaces while others became a factory where the waste and trash are sorted and recycled. Thanks to the recyclers they had gotten from Talos 2, which breaks down the trash into material cubes. The organic cubes are shipped out with the mineral, synthetic and exotic cubes, or used as fuel for the furnaces of the Maw. Which powers the Maw and provides power to the power grid, which is how the Maw makes money, as well as waste management. And with no one having claimed the Maw, Simon was able to become the owner thanks to no one else claiming it. And using the treasure that Marceline had gathered up over the centuries, she brought the land that the Maw rest on. With Lumpy Space Princess claiming it as her own kingdom, allowing her to join in with the other princesses deal with the US government to remain independent. Then there was Equestria and the Candy Kingdom that both Dipper and Mabel are interested to going and see for themselves. Not to mention that with the Camp Lakebottom grand opening for human and non-human children to learn to become friends with each other. There be plenty of kids of all kinds for them to meet over the summer. With all the things that they can do, Dipper figures that it will be an interesting summer after all. "Dipper I need you to go into the forest and put up some signs," Stan said handing Dipper a hammer, nails and the signs. "Alright," Dipper said grabbing the things he needs. But he wonders why he is so willing to do it, like there's something telling him to just do it. "And remember if you see some strange creature in the woods. Make sure they use currency that I can use before you tell them how to get to the shack. I'm tired of those guys trying to barter or trade something like acorns and berries," Stan said. "Yes Stan," Dipper said as he left the shack with something guiding him as if he had already walked the path long ago. Walking into the wood Dipper began to hammer up signs in places that just seems to be where it did so before. Ever since the merge he kept having flashes of a rundown apartment and something that looks to be Mabel with a pig skull for a head, saying they be together forever. He's been doing things by himself and spending less time with Mabel who wants him to be with her more. As Dipper walk through the woods, he spotted some people and other things in the forest. He spotted someone in a yellow raincoat running through the woods with a plastic bag in their hands. Wendy and Soos told him about someone digging in the trash and running off when anyone came close during the first couple of months of the merge, since then the figure in the yellow coat is only seen every now and then. Walking up a hill Dipper got a good overview of some parts of the town and the lake, where the summer camp is located at. He did spot a pair, a man and a woman who are dress alike but couldn't make out more, what caught his eyes was that they're dress as if they came out of the 1800's or something. He also spotted someone in a dark green suit walking away from him into the forest, and the only thing he could make out was the figure’s head that is floating over its body. Dipper just shook it off as with all the people and creatures that have appeared since the merged someone like that isn't out of place anymore. Then Dipper came across a pine tree that's covered in moss and mushrooms. The tree drew him in as if he needed to go to it. Dipper didn't know how he knew, he just felt around the truck till he found the hidden compartment that's been curved into the truck. Opening the metal door, he found a machine of some kind inside and he just flip the switch on top of it. Opening another hidden compartment this time on the ground nearby. Looking down into the hole, he saw an old book with golden handprint on the cover, which had six fingers on it. He reached in and pulled the book out, blowing the dust away and began flipping through the book but felt like he was rereading something he had read before. ! Canterlot Castle - Sunset walk down the hall to greet the guests that have just arrived. With summer break Sunset could go back to important work instead of wasting time in school. Which said school has been merged with the castle resulting in some construction here and there to separate what's the school and which part is the castle. Which how much a mess the castle became with the school merging with it, the government work is done in the town hall of human Equestria, while the castle part of the school has become the residents of the royal family and staff. As well as a dorm for students who live on campus and for V.I.P. guests for the castle part. The school is still a high school for grades 7 to 12, but what use to be the royal guard section is now a community college. Basically, the whole castle school been separated into three parts that are walled off from each other, with construction still going on to build more buildings for the different schools. The college part is still being built and new buildings being made to the other parts of castle as well. Once Sunset fired the guards and moved the government parts to the human government buildings, it freed alot of space in the castle for the school part. For guards, Sunset just hired human guards to replace the pony ones with only the ponies who were retrained by human standards allowed to have their jobs back. Which the royal guards are more of a security force then an army, as that's one of the things that needed to be cut so Equestria would be independent. Not to mention Sunset is investing in having a robot security force. "Sunset," the pony Celestia said as she caught up with her daughter. Celestia has been adjusting to life without magic or being able to move the sun around anymore. She woke up many times trying to move the sun when she remembered that she couldn't do that anymore. And the biggest change being that she no longer wore her crown as it now belongs to her daughter Sunset, who is nothing like the little pony she remembered. Which Sunset coldly told her that she is who made her into the person she is now. "What you want?" Sunset ask coldly. Their relationship is still a cold one since the merge with Sunset barely talking to her. "It's about the changes that you have done," Celestia said. "Disbanding the army has caused much unrest." "If any of the old staff want their jobs back, they just have to be retrained in doing them. The guards you had were just a joke. When is the last time they actually did anything besides cleaning up afterwards? The pony army isn't worth the money to have around, which is the reason why I disbanded them to help with the deals that, I made with the government to keep our independents. Besides the human guards I hired actually do their jobs instead of just waiting for someone else to do their jobs for them. And I didn't fired all of them, I reassigned some of them to other jobs," Sunset said. "You have the Wonderbolts doing air shows for the tourists," Celestia said. "And the remaining guards as nothing but for show for the attractions, while the real guards are behind the scene. What's your point?" Sunset ask. "There are many who are now jobless," Celestia said. "Being a mother to all of your ponies, just not the one that actually mattered," Sunset said. Causing Celestia to stop as she stared at Sunset. "Sunset please, I wasn't the mother you needed, but the ponies are still scared of all the changes," Celestia said remembering how their first meeting with each other ended, with her in tears of losing any bond she once had with her daughter. "And that's the reason why they need me to lead them. They're use and expect you to handle everything themselves, which is why they're having such a hard time adjusting to our new world. No more magic or being able to control their environment anymore, having to stop using bits and using the currency that the rest of the nation uses. The only reason things haven't gone worse is how I been taking charge of things. I had to make so many deals I had to make just so that Equestria would still be as close as an independent kingdom as it is. Do you even realize how much of a mess that you left behind for me to fix?" Sunset asks. "Many, I have seen the files that Luna and Cadance have shared with me," Celestia said. "Knowing that the ponies wouldn't survive without a princess leading and telling them what to do. I had to make choices that you couldn't when it came to your little ponies. I managed to get us the status of a reservation so that we be able to have self-governance. I turn much of Equestria into a popular holiday spot for the nations of this new world. With how the farms aren't doing well, and the mines of gems and metals that we have aren't up to the standards of the other races that came with us, seeing how ponies grew most of the food and traded for the things they needed. The tourism industry is the only thing that’s keeping Equestria afloat. So I have to take steps to keep the industry fatcats and the tourist happy. Including passing laws that strip away many things that the ponies once took for granted. Giving out land leashes to selling land so that hotels and businesses can be built, while forcing the ponies who use to live there out. But it's that or total economic collapse with us losing our independents like others who tried the same thing," Sunset explains. "They fear you," Celestia said. "What's your point?" Sunset asks. "Don't you want to be loved?" Celestia ask. "Pointless seeing how well that turned out for you," Sunset said. "Sunset you spread fear with what you're doing and there's the selling off so many relics and artifacts. You have emptied most of the treasury and have been taking assets from ponies," Celestia said. "You have any idea how much it cost to modernize a country not to mention the entire economy being based on farming, which was completely dependent upon magic to grow plants, which are failing by the way. Have to retool the farms that are left, teach the ponies to abandon their traditions so that they won't lose their farms and get them modern equipment’s that have to be custom made to be used by ponies? It was easier to just abandon that and go with tourist base economy. Which even with me stripping most of the junk from the castle and emptying the vaults, I still needed to take out loans from banks to have the funding for all of it. The ponies just belly ache about all the things I have to do just to keep this kingdom afloat when we're so deep in the red," Sunset said. (2) "You're being a tyrant to them," Celestia said. "I have to be the bad guy, the villainess to get things done around here. With how the ponies are like, I have to be to get them to accept that there's no going back to how things use to be. Besides the humans and other races do appreciate what I have been doing, seeing how the ponies use to have more rights than other races while under your rule. And it's only because of our human counterparts that we haven't become bankrupt yet, seeing how they're willing to give up things so that things won't become worse unlike your ponies," Sunset said. "I was only protecting our subjects," Celestia said. "And under the old laws the ponies always had more rights, always had their word have more weight, can just dump their children onto other relatives or just let them take care of themselves for years at a time, build anywhere they want without making sure that no one else uses that piece of land, not to mention allowing them be bigots to any race that isn't like them. Now that I have strip them of those rights as well as others, with this world unable to be controlled like the old one, the ponies are being fearful. Mainly because of how much of control freaks they are, Everfree forest is just a normal forest but is a nightmare and a place of evil because, nature there take care of themselves. Not to mention that cutie marks are how ponies tell what job they're suited for and they can't work in any other field but that, unless their talent isn't one that would allow them to work a job. Which now in a magicless world is meaningless, and I gotten rid of that old system and strip the nobles of their power seeing how they didn't do anything to help me or anything else after the merge. I can’t believe I actually wanted to takeover before the merge," Sunset said. "They pester me to have their status back," Celestia said. "As if that changes anything or you have any real power anymore. With the world changing many of the ex-nobles lost their wealth and power they once had, I just took away their meaningless titles. Yes, it's all they had left for many but there is no reason for nobles who don't do anything," Sunset said. "Which is also why you're a teacher now. Seeing how little you actually do to with things that matter. And yes I already know about your plan of teaching Twilight. Being the trickster mentor, sending her and her ex-friends to handle problems. Like not even helping when Discord broke free, yes sending her all the reports did help her, but you did nothing else but that. And look what that got you. Her mental state was so mess up that once she saw you as I see you, it completely broke her view of the world around her, causing her to have a complete mental break down. Instead of putting her into a mental ward like I wanted to help her. You just gave her to her parents to look after her, which allowed her to escape and disappear," Sunset said. "I know I failed you and her," Celestia said. "Then stop helping and thinking that you have any say in anything anymore. If I didn't go and gotten the human police to help, the changelings would had taken over. For all of your talk of things like making friends, in the end you don't have friends, all you have is just subjects. Who you treated better than me who you should care more? But then again you banish Aunt Luna to the moon all by herself. So why should I ever think you could be a mother," Sunset said leaving Celestia in the hallway in tears again. Once outside Sunset saw the bus with the Butterfly family. Star with her parents River and Moon, Eclipsa, her husband Globgor and their young daughter Meterora, they also brought along the Diaz family with their children Marco and Mariposa. There is also Pony Head a floating unicorn head, Kelly a woolett, and Buff Frog with his kids who are going to be taken on another bus to camp Lakebottom. Looking at the frog children, Sunset remembered that two of them were conjoined by their heads but with some surgery, they're now separated with metal skull caps where they use to be connected. They're not the only royal family either as there is Melody from the underwater kingdom Atlantica, who is half mermaid and human. She's going to Camp Lakebottom and her grandfather King Triton ask Sunset to keep an eye on her. And with his kingdom having control of that underwater city Rapture with the advance technology and plasmids, she hopes in being on friendly terms with his granddaughter she can stamp out a good trade deal with him. There is also Korra the avatar who unlike many still has her powers like the other benders, but she can't use the avatar state anymore, and Asami Sato both of whom are spending the summer here as a vacation. Both just wanted to spend some time alone with each other. "Welcome to Equestria," Sunset greeted them as she walks up to the guests and give them the grand tour, she really needs to sell them a great vacation and bring in more people with deep pockets. ! Camp Lakebottom - The 3 original camp counselors of the summer camp, Sawyer a lovable zombie, with a multipurpose tool taking the place of his left hand, Armand a sasquatch with a passion for performing arts, and Rosebud a short, bitter woman who serves as the camp's cook. All 3 of them are excited to have their summer camp having been remodeled and made bigger, as the summer camp for humans and non-humans to make friends with each other. Kids from all races and across the country even some from other countries are coming over for the summer. Even their first 3 campers were also coming back, McGee, Gretchen, and Squirt. With how big the camp has gotten thanks to donations and privet funding; they hired more workers for the camp. There's David and Gwen who were camp counselors for their old camp Cambell. There was also Quartermaster the groundskeeper, but he wasn’t hired for being Quartermaster. Gloriosa Daisy and Timber Spruce who because of the merge ending up with their camp in the middle of Everfree forest with all the dangerous animals in it. Their camp was moved by the help of a gumball guardian who just carried the empty buildings and place them in their new home of Lakebottom, when the two camps merged together. And it was actually cheaper to just move the camp buildings of camp Everfree to Lakebottom then building new buildings. There is also Mr. Slinkman who is a smart, nice and friendly banana slug who has legs and arms. He’s from one of those worlds where most animals are sapient and have humanoid bodies. He came to work for the camp after Camp Kidney was closed down, when the scout master of the camp, Lumpus was arrested. For not being the real scout master who he tied up and lock in a closet and was just a crazy guy. There is also Huntress Wizard who after losing her magic took up using a real bow and is going to teach archery. Harry Potter who moved to the states after the merged and is working at the camp. The security guards for the camp, Sasha Nein, Razputin Aquato, Lili Zanotto, and Oleander. All 4 of them use to be Psychonauts before the government agency closed its doors when the funding was cut. Seeing how they're skilled with their psychic powers, they made good security for the summer camp. Then there's Bill the swim teacher who is a gillman who look like the creature from the black lagoon. Violet who is a sphinx who is a cat woman with wings on her back. Sam a pigman who is the camp's nurse. Mesa who is a 20-foot tall treewoman who looks like one of the Ents in Lord of the Rings but has a woman's face. Then there are some local teens of Gravity Falls working there for the summer, Lee, Nate, Tambry, and Thompson. The buses of campers are unloading all the campers which are made up of many different races. The children are being broken up into groups with girls one side and the boys on the other. Where they waited in line as David and Gloriosa Daisy sat at tables checking off names and assigning the kids cabins. There are also 4 protectron's who were gifted to the camp, two fire brigadiers who have internal cryo-guns, a utility one and a guardian. There are also 5 eyebots that can keep track of the campers on walks through the woods, and a Mr. Handy who helps out in the kitchen. "Hi Jake," Juniper said spotting her fellow magical guardian. She isn't alone as her friends Jody Irwin, Ophelia Ramirez, Roger Radcliffe, and Lila came along for the trip. As well as Monroe who even with Jun no longer being the Te Xuan Ze still tagged along for research of the magic of Gravity Falls. Both of Jun's brothers stayed home as she wanted to really hang out with her friends for a change. Both Ray Ray and Dennis are looking after things back home, with them having made friends with some of the new nonhumans that showed up after the merged. "Hi Juniper, it's nice to see you face to face," Jake said shaking her hand. "Cool we finally get to meet your west coast counterpart," Spud said. "Hi girl," Trixie said as she and Rose walk over to them having collected their bags from the bus. "Hi Monroe," Fu Dog said to his fellow magical dog. "So here because of the strange magic?" Juniper asks. "You too?" Jake asks. "Yeah," Juniper said. "You guys are here to study magic?" Lincoln ask standing behind the group with Ronnie, Clyde and Dib. "Hey, aren't you guys the ones who exposed that green alien with that lame getup that fooled everyone in the City?" Rose asks. "Yeah, that's us. I mean all he wore was a wig and contacts. I can't believe people in the City are that dumb," Ronnie said. "Try being one of the few smart people," Dib said. "You're Dip, Gaz brother," Spud said having seen her game videos online. "Yup," Dib said. "So, we're all here to see what's with all the strange magic here?" Juniper asked and got nods in agreement. "Is it passive or spell casting?" Jody asks. "Passive," Fu Dog said. "There isn't any spell casting magic left. This place is the only natural place where passive magic is still around. The only spell casting anyone can do now is using a spell drive," Monroe said. “Well, there is borrowed magic. Like what Ladybug and the other heroes use over in France,” Dib said. (3) “Which a lot of former magic users are desperate to get,” Jake said. "We have collected magical items from around the world to see if the magic here recharges them," Clyde said. "Or you can just ask the magical creatures of Gravity Falls," Lila said. "Are there any sasquatchs besides Armand here?" Ophelia asks. "Just abominable Bro-Man," Lila said. "He has a blog and he's a total bro, showing all the bro stuff he does living in his mountain cave," Roger said. "Wait how does...," Trixie began asking but stop as a bigfoot who is a bro and has a blog while living in a mountain cave isn't the strangest thing since the merge. A scream caught everyone's attention as a golfcart with a boy and a girl came crashing through the treeline. The cart twist and turn as the boy driving the cart avoided campers and camp staff. Till they came to Mesa who simply grab the cart and lifted it off the ground with the wheels spinning. "Would you stop it," Mesa said to Dipper who removed his foot from the pedal. "YOU ALL NEED TO RUN!" Mabel shouted. "From what?" Juniper asks. "GNOMES ARE COMING!" Dipper shouted. You mean those little guys with the pointy hats? What's so scary about them?" Jake asks. Bursting out of the forest came a giant just as tall as Mesa but is a giant body made up of bodies. The giant took the form of gnome, which is made up of hundreds of gnomes all holding onto each other to make the giant. The giant gnome came charging into the camp, sending campers running away from it. Mesa place the golf cart on the ground and charge at the giant gnome, which the gnomes that made up the body simply open a hole in the form they made letting the giant tree woman to go through with them tripping her sending her falling to the ground. Who also fell onto some of the security team of psychics who were running up from behind the gnome to stop it. The protectrons and eyebots flew into action as they used their blasters set to stun on the gnomes, knocking gnomes off the giant. The giant swung its arm sending several gnomes flying at Mabel and Dipper as living missiles before turning their attention to the robots and camp workers. The gnomes grab onto Dipper and Mabel knocking them out of the cart, as the giant gnome was knocking down the robots and camp workers. Juniper and the other kids seeing them in trouble came to their aid knocking the gnomes away. Jake meanwhile transforms into his dragon form and began breathing fire at the giant gnome forcing it backwards as the gnomes avoided the flames. Till the giant gnome grabbed a log that's used for campers to sit on and used it as a bat to knock Jake down to the ground, with him landing near the other kids who had fought off the gnomes that held Dipper and Mabel, causing them to flee back to the giant gnome and going back to their places in the giant. The giant gnome made up of gnomes loom over the children but stop as the gnomes that made up the giant, stop and stared at something behind the children. The children turn around to see a column of water raising out of the lake. The column transforms into a giant fist and grab the giant gnome, taking it within itself. The water began to twist and turn breaking the giant apart as the gnomes lost their grips with each other. Then a ball of water with all the gnomes came flying out and was thrown deep into the forest. All but Jeff who had jump off from top of the giant gnome as the giant water hand grabbed the others. "Good thing I was here," Korra said as she and the rest of the tour group lead by Sunset went along with Buff Frog to see the summer camp where his kids be staying at. "That's one bad guy taken care of," Star said. "No, it's not the bad guy," Mabel said. "What?" Star asks. "That was just the minions," Dipper said. "Then who's the bad guy?" Korra ask. A shriek from the air got everyone's attention as a giant winged creature slam down from the sky, landing on top of the bus. The eyes of the giant's bird like head turn from yellow to red upon seeing its target. Standing over 15 feet tall is the guardian of the fallen city in the sky Columbia, Songbird. Seeing this Mesa got back up and put herself in front of the winged bird machine thing. She was joined by Globgor who grew into a giant got between Songbird and the kids, keeping him at bay as it faced off against two people who are as big as it is. Joined by the other camp workers, security team and the robots. "Someone explain what's going on?" Juniper asks. "Jeff who, I thought was a zombie who was really just a bunch of gnomes dress up so that they could grab my sister Mabel," Dipper explains. "And Jeff here," Mabel said pointing to the lone gnome who hadn't run away. "Were going to offer me to that bird thing." "Hey now, Songbird over there has been forcing me and the other gnomes to find young girls for him," Jeff said as the kids crowded around him. "What for?" Jake asks. "He's looking for a girl that he once protected but disappeared after his city he protected fell from the sky. He has been looking for her since and when he ended up here, he made his home in our part of the forest about a week ago. He forces us to search and find a young girl with brown hair with an outgoing personality and bring her back to him to see if she's the one he seeks," Jeff explains. "And if I wasn't?" Mabel asks. "Well, we're going to make you our queen by forcing you to marry all of us gnomes," Jeff said. "Really? There aren't any female gnomes around here?" Jake asks. "All this just so that Songbird can find the girl he's looking for?" Juniper ask. "It's better than how he uses to do things when he was on his own. He just flew around till he spotted a girl who looks like the one he’s looking for and grab her and when it turns out it wasn't the girl, he's looking for he just drop her," Jeff explains to the horror of the kids. "Wait he's the flying monster that's been grabbing and dropping girls?" Lincoln asked. "Good it means I can do this," Huntress Wizard said as she had reappeared armed with a bow and arrows. Huntress Wizard unleash an arrow at Songbird's head which bounces off its well armored head. Songbird gave out a screech as it attempted to fly but was tackled by Mesa and Globgor their combine weight kept it from flying. But Songbird proved to be strong as it sent Meda and Globgor flying by twisting its body side to side. The robots open fire on Songbird, their blasters still set to stun because of the children present, Huntress Wizard continue to fire arrows at Songbird aiming for its head and eyes. The psychics used PSI-Blasts and pyrokinesis on Songbird but did little damage to the machine birdman thing. Songbird cried out as it flaps its wings knocking the eyebots out of the air before using its wings to knock the protectrons away, followed by the psychics. Korra struck it with a jet of water, followed by lightning causing Songbird to jerk around. Songbird shriek in rage as it punches at Korra with its claws on its hands, making Korra jump backwards from the blows. Jake in his dragon form slam into Songbird's side, followed by an arrow to his eye by Huntress Wizard causing it to shriek in pain. Jake lit Songbird on fire but proved to be useless as Songbird is fireproof. But it allowed Globgor who has grown even bigger than Songbird to kick it into the lake. Which Korra created ice around Songbird trapping it in a block of ice. "You think that stop it?" Juniper ask having stayed back as without her powers Songbird is way out of her weight class. "Nope," Lincoln said as cracks form on the ice and Songbird burst out of the ice in rage. Twin beams of energy struck Songbird sending it falling back in the water. Flying over the camp came Danny and Dani in their ghost forms flew over the crowd and tackle Songbird bringing it underwater. The water's surface bubbled as the 3 fought underwater, with an energy beam bursting out now and then. Songbird burst out of the water trying to fly away when a missile struck it sending it falling again into the water. XJ6 came flying down from the sky and plunge into the lake to join the underwater fight. The water surface bubbled till it stop, with XJ6 with her arms wrap around Songbird and the two phantoms joining her in the air. "XJ6 glad to see you!" Dib waved to her. He knows her through his dad who help improved and upgrade XJ6's and her sisters’ weapons and systems. "Hi Dib, don't worry about this guy. We'll take him to a place that will hold him," XJ6 said as she and the phantoms flew off to a government run prison of Tartarus. "At last Songbird is gone. Now me and the other gnomes can find a new queen," Jeff said as he looks at Mabel. "No way," Mabel shouted. "Listen why don't you gnomes find yourselves female gnomes? They be your size," Juniper said. "But there aren't any female gnomes," Jeff said. "Wait then how...," Trixie began asking before she realized what being the gnome queen really means which most of the other kids also realized. "Listen you gnomes of Gravity Falls can't be doing the queen bee thing anymore. There are female gnomes out there if you really want a wife," Jake said. "There are?" Jeff asks. "Sure, I can show you some dating sites," Fu Dog said. "You mean as in using one of those computers?" Jeff asks. "Oh man you guys really are isolated here aren't you," Monroe said. "Hey, you two," Lincoln ask the twins. "My name is Dipper and she's Mabel," Dipper introduced him and his sister to the group. "Is this normal around here?" Lincoln asks. "Can't really say," Dipper said. "Yeah, we only been here a couple of days," Mabel said. "At least things started off as an action pack one," Clyde said. "Sure, a great start, we encounter a bunch of gnomes who have a queen bee thing and a machine birdman who drops the girls it grabs as it looks for the one it's looking for," Ophelia said. "Yeah, but we now live in a world where things like that is easy to handle," Roger said. "And XJ6 and the phantoms are here," Ronnie adds. "There's that," Jody said. "Hey Jeff, there has never been a magical guardian or whatever who kept the human and magical world in balance in your world is there," Jake ask said gnome. "Nope there has never been anyone like that. We only been interacting with the humans seeing how there's no point in hiding anymore," Jeff said. "Just great," Juniper said as she and Jake realize that they'll be the ones who are going to handle things like old times again. ! Tartarus - After Sunset gave complete ownership of Tartarus to the government, they made it into a Federal Supermax Isolation prison. Which is under the control of the government agency S.C.P. or Secure, Contain, Protect, who handle all the sapient magical beings and those with powers. Since the ownership change to the government, Tartarus has been expanded and upgraded with the most advance security system found in the different worlds that were merged together. Staff by heavily armed and armored guards, robots, turrets, force fields, cameras that can detect anything, and custom prison cells for special prisoners. Have created a prison that can contain just about anything and anyone in it to serve their sentence on the west coast. The complex is made up of different sections for different levels of prisoners. The Intensive Treatment Center is a large facility located in the center Tartarus, the Intensive Treatment Center held a number of the more extreme personalities and was designed to provide care for highly severe psychological and physical illnesses. This unit contained a number of holding cells, many offices for the Tartarus Staff along the corridors, the Extreme Isolation cells, a wide range of medical equipment, and the main lobby. This is one of the prison's most highly secure buildings where prisoners are first admitted for initial assessments, so it had up-to-date security systems to properly house inmates. The Medical & Research Facility was one of the primary locations for the inmates of the institution to receive physical treatment, alongside the Intensive Treatment Unit. This building had a sanatorium with an X-Ray Room, a Patient Observation Room and a Surgery Room. Some of the prisoners held have powers or abilities that they can't control and are held till they get the help they need. The Research Wing is where prisoners are studied to learn about whatever special abilities they have works. The state-of-the-art equipment’s and holding cells, allow the safe study on the prisoners. And see what could be gain from the studies, both in knowledge, technology and for commercial gain. The Penitentiary is the primary location for incarceration, with 5 different sections for the different level of how dangerous the prisoner is. The Penitentiary contained a great number of different cells to house the prisons extreme variety of inmates. Level 1 prisoners are the ones who can be kept in standard cells once strip of their gear. Level 2 prisoners are the ones with powers and are kept lock in cells that one way or another keep them from using their powers. Level 3 prisoners are for the ones who powers can't be turn off and have to be kept in custom cells. Level 4 are the supernatural prisoners who even in a world with no magic there are still some who still have some of their old powers. Level 5 are the most dangerous and are kept behind vault like doors. The Canteen is where Level 1 to 4 who are deem safe to be let out of their cells go for their meals, the ones who are lock in their cells are given their food through slots. The prisoners who are let out are the ones who rehabilitation is an option. They're given a chance to get an education if they lack one and work prison jobs to earn money. The sector houses the workshop, laundry room, cleaning rooms, shower, kitchen, mail room and prison shop. The sector is treated as more of a normal prison for those who are serving their time. There is also the Extreme Isolation is an area of Tartarus that is located in the Intensive Treatment Center and reserved for only the most dangerous of inmates or the ones who have powers that can't let them be around others. An almost inescapable prison, the only way in and out of the area is via a high-security, metal transfer box. The entrance is also guarded by heavily armed and armored security guards and robots at all times. (4) "First time in Tartarus?" XJ6 ask Danny and Dani as they handed off Songbird to the guards of Tartarus in the Intensive Treatment Center. "Been here before," Dani said. "We were here when the ghost portal was ship here," Danny said. "Why?" XJ6 ask. "There's your answer," Danny said pointing to 4 ghosts who are dress as prison guards. They are Walker's goons who are identical in appearance. They are green-skinned ghosts with broad, muscular torsos, ghostly tails, and red eyes. Their uniform consists of a dark blue police jacket with green patches on the arms, gray-and-green shoulder guards and gloves, a metallic gray helmet with a green star on a blue visor, and a gray utility belt. They also each carry a green baton that can fire ectoplasmic restraints to capture prisoners, and they sometimes use gray-and-green riot shields. "Walker and the SCP have a deal where any ghosts caught are given over to Walker to be put in his prison," Dani said. "Really for what?" XJ6 ask. "Don't know what Walker is getting out of the deal but all the ghosts that are caught once put in Walker's prison don't get out," Danny said. Walker's guards are escorting Amorpho a ghost with the power to shapeshift. "What about the Fenton Thermos?" XJ6 ask. "That and other ghost traps can hold some ghosts, but others can break out. So, it’s just safer to give over ghosts to Walker where all of their powers doesn't matter in a place where everyone is a ghosts," Danny said. (5) "And where they can't just go through walls and the guards being ghosts the prisoners can't use powers that would easily allow them to handle the living," Dani adds. "Good point," XJ6 said as she watches Songbird being led away by robot guards design to handle big and powerful prisoners like him. "We have enough problems with the living prisoners as it is." "I DON'T BELONG HERE!" a young woman in her teens cried out. She is in a straitjacket with two guards dragging her to her cell. "Oh yes you do," a younger teen said who is filling out forms as his sister is committed to the prison metal ward. "Dexter, I didn't mean it. I'm sorry," the woman pleaded with her younger brother. "You're only sorry because you're finally getting punish for what you did this time. You went and played around with my new fusion generator and killed hundreds in the blast, not to mention caused millions in collateral damage. It's all recorded of you sneaking in and even with the people in the control room yelling at you to stop you just started messing with the controls and laughing while you did it. And after the explosion you tried laughing it off as just a game and said it's ok as you do it all the time in my lab. You don't care about anything or anyone but yourself. Dee Dee you are mentally unable to see what you do as being wrong. And you're only crying because you're being punish this time," Dexter snap at his sister. "It was just a joke," Dee Dee sobbed. "A joke that killed people and unlike back in our world you can't just get away with this," Dexter said. "What about mom and dad?" Dee Dee asked. "Dad's lost his right arm and mom is still undergoing treatment for her burns. Both of them don't ever want to see you again after the news footage of you smiling and laughing at the destruction you caused saying it was all for a laugh and showing no remorse for all the deaths and damage you did," Dexter explain to her. "No. I don't believe you!" Dee Dee shouted out. "Don't then as you are not my sister or part of the family anymore," Dexter said as he finishes the form and handed it to the guard and walk away as Dee Dee was drag the other way with her crying out for her brother to save her. (6) "I see your point," Danny said to XJ6. "There are still people who think because of how they were able to do what they want in their world and no matter what just worked out. That they can still do it here and nothing bad will happen to them," XJ6 said. "Till it finally hits them in the face," Dani said. ! Elsewhere - Grindewald once a mighty dark wizard before the merging of worlds that brought an end to spell casting magic, wished he still had magic to deal with the thugs that had put a bag over his head and dragged him somewhere. He had only agreed to this meeting because of how little options there were for him. The one who he's meeting is the one who mastered minded his escape. Not that it was that hard with how useless the magical world is without magic. From what he has overheard the person who freed him, deal with the black market for magical items that still work and those that don't but are still valuable to the right buyer. One of the thugs shoved the elder wand into his face asking him if it's the real deal and learning it is, they put the bag over his head. All he knows is that they came to the sea and gotten onto a boat thanks to him smelling the saltwater and how the floor is moving. "Sorry for the rough treatment but can't be too careful," a man spoke to him as the bag was removed from his head. Gridewald blink as he found himself in what looks like the ships quarters and the man who removed the bag is a large man wearing a suit and a luchadore mask. "Who are you?" Gridewald ask. "I'm the guy who had you busted out after you agreed to my offer. I'm Killbane and welcome to the Luchadores," the man greeted him. "Why do you need me?" Gridewald ask. "See I need someone who knows about magic, I have gotten some people working for me but you having studied all the dark arts of magic would know a really powerful magical whatnot when you see it. And you're also the type who doesn't mind what the item is used for or on," Killbane said. "I see you're just after making money," Gridewald said. "Of course, I am," Killbane said. "What else is there." !