//------------------------------// // 02) The Legend of the Gobblewonker // Story: The Power of the Gravity Falls // by Gfmlp //------------------------------// Twilight and Dipper were having breakfast when Stan spoke to them. "Do you know what day it is today?" Stan asked. "Happy ... Anniversary?" Dipper said, somewhat nervous. "Happy Birthday?" Twilight said with a lot of doubt. "No, today is family fun day, it's the day we don't work," Stan said. "It won't be like the last day of family fun you made Twilight, Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle and I making fake money," Dipper said, recalling his bad experience and then noticing there was a crow staring at them outside the cabin. "If it weren't for me that I realized the police were coming and my magic that managed to hide everything in time before they arrived, I'm pretty sure they would have sent us to jail," Twilight said, then continued. "Now that I think about it, I don't know how you convinced me to make fake money." "It's not going to happen again, mainly because Rarity and Applejack got quite upset they knew that Sweetie Belle and Apple Bloom into counterfeiting money," Stan said thoughtfully. "I know I have not been the best tutor this summer, but who wants to blindfold and get in my car." "Yes! What moment? " Dipper and Twilight said at the same time. ... After a while, they reached the destination with difficulties because Stan was not driving well. "Okay, now you can take off the bandages," Stan said. Twilight who had reached the lake from Gravity Falls and everything around them seemed like the beginning of the fishing season, which made you wonder why he brought them here. Dipper noticed the same thing as Twilight, but he also noticed a crow that was watching them, unlike Fluttershy, Dipper could not differentiate one animal of the same species from another, but he was sure that that crow was the same one that was near the Mystery Shack, maybe that crow followed them from the Mystery Shack to the lake. His thoughts on the raven were interrupted by Twilight's question to Stan. "Why are we here?" Twilight asked. "For fishing, the people I know don't like or trust me," Stan said. Dipper and Twilight looked at each other with more doubt than pity. Dipper didn't realize that the raven left. “I know you would be happy with some handmade hats I made,” Stan said, making both of them more doubtful, and then Stan said. "And you will not get bored, I brought the joke book for old man." Twilight and Dipper were more scared now, and the two decided to find the fastest way to get away from Stan. Suddenly old man appeared saying that he had seen a monster named Gobblewonker on the island in the center of the lake and no one believed him, including his son and they just laughed. Dipper and Twilight wondered who that old man was. "You might be wondering who that guy was, everyone calls him Old Man McGucket," Applejack said. "And every time I see him, my head hurts, to see the way he dresses," Rarity said. "What are they doing here?" Twilight asked. “Sweetie Belle and Apple Bloom wanted to go to the lake for the fishing season if they could get their Cutie Marks here, Pacifica didn't want to go to the lake and I didn't want to come, but after I found out that there are Gnomes in Gravity Falls and see the creatures from Gravity Falls thanks Journal 3, I didn't want them to be alone on one of their adventures, "said Rarity. "I don't like to go fishing, I just came for Apple Bloom and I didn't want anyone from the Corduroy family, except for Wendy, to accompany her, for example for acts like that," Applejack said pointing to a nearby boat. Wendy's father was fishing with her children, his father took a fish in the water and then started beating it. Dipper, Twilight and everyone they knew were trying to understand why he started hitting the fish he had caught, and people I did not know supported him the fight. "What are they doing here?" Rarity said, desperately trying to distract herself from the family Applejack was staying with. "We tried to find an excuse so we could get away from Stan," Twilight muttered. All the ponies found it strange the words of Twilight and Dipper with mutterings explained their situation and they all understood their motives and decided to help find an excuse, except Fluttershy who was angry with everyone for supporting them in what they were doing. "How about we go to the island to find that monster called Gobblewonker," suggested Dipper. Everyone agreed to Dipper's plan, except Rarity. "If we want to get there we need a boat to get to the island," Rarity said. "Don't worry, I can take you," Stan said. They all looked at Stan's boat and no one wanted to get on that boat, they wondered how it was possible that he was still floating, but none of them had a boat. "Hey guys, what are you doing," asked Soos, being in a boat, which was fully equipped, to go sailing. "We're thinking of going to see if we can find the Gobblewonker on the island in the center of the lake," Dipper said. "In that case I can take them, my boat has a motor, chairs, a rudder, you know things about boats," said Soos. "Thank you very much, Soos," says Twilight. They all decided to get on Soos' boat to go to the island and leave Stan alone. ... As they reached the island, a lot of pelicans appeared and rested in Soos's boat, which Fluttershy liked a lot, but Dipper noticed that one of the pelicans that unlike the others who had come from the shore or flying inside from the lake, this pelican came out of the forest and placed himself on the highest part of the boat, Dipper does not know why but it reminded him of the crow that followed him from the cabin. When they reached the island, Soos joked with the name of the island covering part of the poster, then they heard a scream and went straight to the place and could not believe their eyes, it was Rainbow Dash and Scootaloo. "Who are you? Why did they kidnap us and bring us here? You guys…?" Rainbow Dash said, but suddenly she fell silent looking at Fluttershy with a doubtful face and then she changed to happiness, tears coming from his eyes. Rainbow Dash's change of attitude seemed strange to them and then they all saw how Rainbow Dash hugged Fluttershy. "Fluttershy I'm so sorry and when I see Maple I'm going to apologize for not believing her," Rainbow Dash said. "What do you mean Rainbow Dash?" Fluttershy asked. “I'm going to tell you from the beginning, a few days ago I was in my home, until Maple appeared giving me some news that I did not expect and it was that Fluttershy had disappeared and I asked her, Who the hell was Fluttershy? She told me that she was a yellow Pegasus, she liked animals and she is shy and that I was her friend, but I didn't remember anyone who fit that description, "said Rainbow Dash, leaving everyone surprised and horrified when they realized that now almost no one remembered Fluttershy, except Maple. "I thought she was making it up, she angrily dragged me and Pinkie Pie to Ponyville, to ask about Fluttershy, but nobody remembered, we were about to go back to our house, until she remembered something and dragged us to that place, which was a house full of animals and she told us it was Fluttershy's house, and I still didn't believe her, she decided to stay in that house to take care of the animals, after a couple of days she was with Scootaloo and suddenly I went dragged with Scootaloo to this place and seeing you I remembered you Fluttershy and sorry for having forgotten you. " Everyone was trying to collect her thoughts, so Rainbow Dash said it was confirmed that everyone in Equestria forgot about the pony that disappeared, except for Maple and it happened a few days after Fluttershy disappeared and Twilight had another question. "Moment recently we heard a scream, have you just arrived?" Twilight asked, Rainbow Dash and Scootaloo nodded. Then they began to tell their stories which surprised Rainbow Dash and Scootaloo that some had been here for years and that there was a series about what their lives would be like and they were interrupted when they heard a kind of roar. "It's true according to Old Man McGucket, there is a monster in the lake, called Gobblewonker," Dipper said. They stepped deeper into the fog where the roar prevented, and saw a silhouette of a reptile. "So that's the lake monster. Charge!" Rainbow Dash said. But before reaching the destination he realized what were they ship wreckage, with a lot of beavers around him and that made everyone a little disappointed, except Fluttershy who was extremely happy to see the beavers. "But this can't be, we all heard that kind of roar, what the heck was it?" Dipper said, then everyone heard the roar again and saw a beaver playing with a chainsaw. The most excited about all this were Fluttershy who loved animals and Soos who did not stop taking photos. Dipper and Twilight were something they were somewhat sad because there was no Gobblewnker. Suddenly the Gobblewonker appeared, they were both happy, but their friends made them go back to their ongoing thoughts, because they were all in danger from the Gobblewonker. They all fled in the boat, while fleeing they collided where the beavers lived, causing the beavers to attack everyone and the boat. A beaver grabbed onto Soos's head making her unable to drive, causing Applejack to try to drive. Dipper seeing the lake monster had led them to a dead end, he immediately looked at Journal 3. "Towards the waterfall, behind the waterfall there may be a cave," said Dipper, looking at Journal 3. They all looked at him with some doubt. "How can he," Rarity says. Applejack went through the waterfall where there was a cave and after crossing the cave the boat stayed on the shore. The Gobblewonker got stuck at the entrance of the cave, which everyone rejoiced, but while the Gobblewonker was shaking, a stone fell on his head and there Dipper and Twilight realized that he was a robot. And everyone was surprised that Old Man McGucket was driving it. "Why did you do all this?" Dipper asked. "It was to get attention, my son doesn't visit me, so I thought he would get his attention with a 15-ton robot," Old Man McGucket said with a laugh. "You don't know how far the elderly can go for a moment as a family." Twilight and Dipper looked at each other guiltily. "Guys, the real monsters are you," Soos said. Everyone felt guilty about leaving Stan alone except Soos, Rainbow Dash and Scootaloo. "You didn't try to talk to his son," Twilight said. “No, I immediately started making the robot, I made a lot of robots in my time. When my wife left me she believed Homicidal Pterodactyl-Tron, or when my friend Ernie didn't come to my retirement party she believed the 18-ton Shame Bot that blew up the entire city center. " Old Man McGucket said. "Well I'll keep doing my death ray." "Well I think we should go back to accompany Stan," says Twilight. They all agreed to accompany Stan on the fishing trip, but Rainbow Dash lingered a bit longer looking at the Gobblewonker. "Someday I'll ask Old Man McGucket if he'll let me drive the Gobblewonker," Rainbow Dash muttered. No one noticed that a pelican, the same one that made Dipper feel uncomfortable, was watching everything that happened. ... Then everyone spent the rest of the day with Stan, everyone had a good time and Soos was the only one who was amused by the jokes in Stan's book. Then when they got back to the Mystery Shack, Stan noticed something about Scootaloo. "Hey I have a question for you, can you fly?" Stan asked. "I can't fly very well," Scootaloo said somewhat depressed. "It's weird, I thought you could fly because you had wings," Stan said thoughtfully and then he noticed that everyone looked at him angrily, he immediately tried to do something so that he wasn't depressed. "I have an idea, I'm going to give you this, it won't make you fly, but it will be similar," said Stan, giving him a grappling hook. "Thank you very much," Scootaloo said happily when he knew what it was for. Everyone was happy about this. ... Outside the Mystery Shack, the pelican had followed them all here. Suddenly, the pelican changed shape. "With that now there are 5 out of 6 of those annoying ponies, I would like to kill them, but that that creature so annoying told me before is right, I would not have any advantage in this world especially without my subjects, so I'll have to keep watching, the only good thing about getting here was that I don't feel hungry, the only thing I can do is keep watching ”, she told herself, after a sigh she continued. "He better be what that creature told me the truth."