> Gravity Falls: Secrets of Equestria > by Pentrath > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Chapter One: Journey to Equestria > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ‘’Hey Dipper here, as you can probably see me, Mable, Soos and some new friends of ours have been locked in this steel cage while Bill Cipher is turning Gravity Falls into a chaotic wonder land; and you are probably wondering to yourself ‘’how did this happen’’. Well I think the best way to explain is to start from the beginning’’. ‘’ Oh-Oh can I tell this flashback, please Dipper’’ Mable begged. ‘’ No Mable I am the one telling the story’’ Dipper said with a bit of annoyance. ‘’ Aww I never get to narrate’’ Mable whined. ‘’ Now where was I’’ Dipper said to himself as he continued to narrate. ‘’ Oh yeah… as I said … It all started about 2 weeks ago when….’’ 2 weeks ago Night has fallen upon Gravity Falls as we see Gruncle Stan walking up to a vending machine inside of his gift shop. Upon reaching the soda machine he begins to type a code into the keypad that causes the vending machine to open like a door revealing a set of stair leading to a small hall way with an elevator at the end of it. He walks up to the elevator and commences to type in another code in with strange markings hiding the code sequence into the keypad located on the wall next to the elevator. As the code is entered the door to the elevator opened allowing Stan to walk inside of it before closing behind him and descending to a secret room hidden below the Mystery Shack. As he entered the room he switched on the lights revealing a bunch of computers and spy equipment. He walked up to a small computer desk, on that desk was a small cupboard containing 3 journals, each with the numbers 1-3 on the cover. He opens the cupboard and retrieves the journals and then proceeds to lay them on the desk side by side. ''After all these years…finally, we have them all’’ was all Stan said before opening the journals to the required page revealing a secret puzzle that requires all 3 journals to complete. He proceeds to connect the 3 journals, revealing the secrets the puzzle had to hide. Upon connecting the journals, the puzzle reveals a large upside down pyramid with a circle on it. After the pyramid is revealed, Stan begins to decipher the code on the pyramid and type it into a computer. As he is typing in the code, lights in the room opposite of him started to glow through as small window above the desk that Stan was sitting at; revealing the same kind of pyramid that appeared in the journals. ‘’It’s working’’ Stan said shockingly before jumping out of his seat and rushes through a nearby door leading into the adjacent room. As he enters the room he immediately rushes over to the pyramid and pulls a lever that is on the ground next to the machine. Once the lever is pulled the circle in the center of the pyramid begins to glow as symbols matching the ones from the journals begin to light up as electricity sparks the machine to life. As the circle lights up it illuminates the room with a dim blue glow, revealing 2 circular pads of the ground on either side of Stan which also began to glow. ‘’Here we go’’ Stan says happily as the machine is powering up. Suddenly a spark of electricity flies out toward Stan, nearly hitting him before the machine starts to go haywire as it malfunctions and starts to power down. ‘’ No no no’’ Stan screams as the pyramid powers down completely. He begins to repeatedly pull the lever back and forth but to no prevail as the pyramid is still not powering up. Stan runs back over to the journals and begins to immediately check over them to see if a page was missing but nothing was out of order. Frustrated, Stan head back toward the elevator and proceed back up to the stair case grumbling to himself all the way up. He reaches the top of the stair and then exists through the vending machine door, forgetting to shut it before exiting the gift shop and heading up to his room. He immediately changes out of his pyjamas and into his black tuxedo that he wears when he is trying to allure customers to the Mystery Shack. He also grabs his cane with an eyeball on the top and his car keys. ‘’ I need to take a long drive’’ Stan said to himself disheartened by what happened as he exited the Mystery Shack and got into his car and drove away into the night. Unbeknownst to anyone including Stan, a shadowy figure that was attracted by the sounds of the pyramid powering up waits patiently for the sun to rise as Dipper, Mable and Soos sleep soundly through the night, unknowing what awaits them in the morning. The next day, Dipper was the first to wake up as he quickly got dressed and went to go see Stan (which he hoped he could talk to about getting his journal back. He headed down stairs to the living room where he expected Stan to be sleeping and was shocked to see he was not there. He ran back upstairs to Stan’s room to see if he was there for a change but unfortunately Stan wasn’t in his room either so Dipper started to call out for Stan as he did not know where he had gone. ‘’Grunkle Stan…. GRUNKLE STAN WHERE ARE YOU’’ Dipper called out but to no prevail. Dipper gave up and assumed Stan was out trying to attract customers so he went to the kitchen to make himself breakfast when he noticed the door leading to the gift shop was open. Knowing Stan does not usually open the shop up until he had swindled a group of people in to checking out the fake museum first, so Dippers curiosity got the better of him as he approached the door. ‘’Grunkle Stan are you in here’’ Dipper called out as he opened the door all the way but got no response; he looked around the unlit room for any sign of life before turning on the lights. As the room lit up he noticed that no one but himself was in the room but what caught his attention was the fact that the soda machine had been moved, revealing a passage way leading down below the Mystery Shack. As Dipper descended down the stairs he came across the elevator leading to the secret room under the building. Fortunately for Dipper, Stan had forgotten to reset the password so it was still entered into the keypad which meant Dipper only had to press enter to open the elevator. ‘’ What is this room and how long has it been here?’’ Dipper thought to himself as he looked at the elevator. ‘’ I need to show Mable and Soos this, where ever this elevator take us must be very secret for it to have been hide under the Mystery Shack''. Dipper said as he turned and ran back upstairs to inform Soos and Mable of his discovery unbeknownst to him a shadowy figure slips through the crack of the elevator door and the hand of the dial above the elevator door starts to turn, indicating the elevator is descending down as Dippers disappears out of site upstairs. ‘’MABLE...Mable wake up’’ Dipper shouted while shaking his still sleeping sister. ‘’ DIPPER it’s too early go back to sleep’’ Mable said in annoyance at being woken up. ‘’Mable please it is important I found this secret room under the Mystery Shack that has an elevator leading to how know where’’ Dipper said with excitement. ‘’Come on we need to also show Soos’’. After a few minutes had passed, Mable and Soos change out of their pyjamas and into their casual cloths. They followed Dipper through the secret passage as Soos accidently closes the vending machine door as they enter. ‘’Soos why did you do that? How are we going to get out now’’ Dipper said. ‘’He-he sorry dudes’’ Soos said innocently causing Dipper to sigh. ‘’Let’s just go, we will figure a way out later’’ Dipper said as the continued down the stairs leading to the elevator. ‘’ Ok we are here’’ Dipper said. ‘’Now the only question is how do we open the elevator’’ Dipper asked as he turned to look at Mable for ideas. ‘’ Done’’ Soos said as he had just pushed the enter button on the keypad. Mable and Dipper looked surprised and were about to ask Soos how he knew the combination when the elevator door opened, allowing the three of them to enter.As soon as they entered the door of the elevator closed behind them and the elevator automatically starts to descend to the bottom floor. As they reach their destination, the elevator door opens and they are greeted to a dark room with computer monitors and radars giving a small amount of light. Soos flips the light switch witch reveals the room in a much more detailed way as the computer monitors, telescopes, switch boards ect. came into view. ‘’ What is this place?’’ Dipper asked. ‘’ Maybe it’s kind of spy equipment’’ Soos said nonchalantly as they continued through the small room until they reached a small desk nearby a door that lead to another room but what caught Dipper’s attention was the 3 opened journals that sat on the desk. ‘’ The journals’’ Dipper called out before dashing toward the desk. As he approaches the desk he sees that the journals are opened to a specific page and that there is some kind of code typed into the computer next to the desk. As Dipper examines the code and the journals he comes to discover that the code is unfinished and commences to finish the code using the journals. As soon as he types in the last line of code he upside down pyramid in the other room begins to light up revealing itself through a small window just above the desk. ‘’ Whoa, what is that?’’ Mable asked. ‘’ I have no idea but I think it has something to do with this picture in the journals’’ Dipper explained before closing the journals and picking them up before himself, Mable and Soos heads into the second room with the giant pyramid. As they approached the pyramid they were shocked that such a thing has been hidden under the Mystery Shack for so long. ‘’ As soon as we find Grunkle Stan we need to show him this as this might be a way to finally get him to believe me’’ Dipper said just as Soos called out to him and Mable. ‘’ Hey dudes look at this lever I found’’ Soos says before pulling it. ‘’SOOS NOOOO’’ Mable and Dipper yelled in unison but it was too late as the circle in the center of the pyramid began to emit a blinding white light as electricity began to spark between the symbols around the outside of the circle and a large gust of wind begins to suck Mable, Dipper and Soos into the hole. Journals 1 and 2 are the first to get sucked into the circle as Dipper is holding on to journal number 3 with all his might. Soos grabs on to the lever and onto Mable who holds on to Dipper as the suction becomes worse, unfortunately for them Soos’s grip is not that strong and his hand slips off the lever as he, Mable and Dipper are sucked into the circle before the pyramid begins to power down again. As soon as the machine powers down a car pulls into the drive way of the Mystery Shack as Stan steps out feeling rejuvenated from the night before. ‘’Ah nothing like a relaxing night at a fancy hotel and a Jacuzzi bath to get your mind off of things. Now where are those kids, we got suckers to scam er I a mean show a delightful time’’ Stan corrected himself as Old Man Mcgucket walks past taking his morning stroll down the road. ‘’Hehe I will find that sock monster eventually’’ Old Man Mcgucket says before running off laughing hysterically. ‘’This whole town is full of idiots’’ Stan says before heading back inside. Mable, Dipper and Soos all scream as they tumble through what looks to be some form of worm hole as they begin to stretch as they reach the end of the worm hole and a white light engulfs them again. What seems like hours pass before Dipper starts to come too. ‘’ Ow my head’’ Dipper said as he placed his hand on his head, or atleast he thought it was his hand. As Dipper comes more familiar with his surroundings he notices that they are in a dark forest of some kind. Dipper reaches down to pick up his journal when he notices that his hand is no longer a hand but a hoof. He immediately checks his other hand to find that it too was a hoof, as he examines his body he finds out that he has turned into a small horse with a blue pine tree tattooed on his flank. ‘’ Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh!’’ Dipper screamed alerting not only Mable and Soos who were just now waking up but also some unwelcomed attention. As they ran to where Dipper was screaming they were shocked at what they found. Siting on the ground in front of them was a small tan colored earth pony with a red t-shirt, blue vest, and wore a white and blue baseball cap with a blue pinetree on it. ‘’ Dipper is that you’’ Mable asked. Dipper who had just finish screaming looked for the source of the question and found a small tan colored unicorn with a brown curly mane with a pink hair band in it, she wore a purple sweater with a shooting star on it and had a shooting star on her flank as well, she had a faint tint of purple on her muzzle and had a long brown tail with solid black eyes. He also saw a large and round green Pegasus with a small patch of hair on his head and a small brown cap. He had two buck teeth showing at the front of his muzzle and had an aftershave under his chin. He had a small slab of hair for a tail with a question mark as a cutie mark and small stubby wings. ‘’Soos, Mable is that you… and why are you horses?’’ Dipper asked prompting Mable and Soos to look down in shock. Mable raised a hoof up to her horn to confirm that she was indeed a unicorn now. But instead of screaming in fear like Dipper did she began to squeal in glee at her new form. ‘’ Oh my gosh oh my gosh oh my gosh, I am a unicorn, it has like been my life long dream to be one and now I am. I can now die happy’’ Mable said before falling on her back and rolling around happily. ‘’ He-he I’m a horse now’’ Soos said as he looked at his wings. Dipper sighed as he stood up and started to pick up the 3 journals that had landed a few feet away from him, but as he did he heard what sounded like growling coming from a distance. Instantly he froze and Mable stopped rolling around as a large wooden wolf appeared out of a nearby bush and began to growl with drool dripping from its mouth. Dipper, Soos and Mable stood there shock and frightened by the new creature as it slow inched forward. ‘’Psst Soos, Mable’’ Dipper whispered. ‘’ Yeah’’ Mable and Soos whispered to Dipper. ‘’ On the count of 3 let’s all run, 1…2…3eeee’’ Dipper said as he darted of in the opposite direction that the timberwolf was standing prompting the others to do the same. Seeing it meal trying to escape the timberwolf took chase after the three and snarled as it did. Unfortunately they ran into a mountain side and found themselves trapped. They all backed up against the mountain as the timberwolf inched closer with its teeth showing while Mable and Soos back up against the mountain with a look of horror on their faces while Dipper franticly looked through his journal for any information on this creature but unfortunately found none. The timberwolf pounced toward them prompting the trio to close their eyes as they await for the worst only for a lasso to come out of nowhere and tie around the wolfs muzzle causing it to fall to the ground. The open their eyes to the sound of a ‘’ Yehaw’’ as they see an orange earth pony with a blond mane and tail and three apple emblazed on her flank as she charged forward toward the timberwolf as it was trying to get to it feet. As soon as it stood up it tried one last time to get the three of them before the orange pony bucked it causing the timberwolf to go flying and shatter across a large rock. ‘’ What in tarnation is you 3 doing in the middle of the Everfree Forest, don’t yall know it is dangerous in here’’ AJ said. ‘’ Anyway names Apple Jack the most dependable pony in Ponyville’’ She said placing a hoof on her chest. ‘’ PONYVILLE’’ Dipper, Mable and Soos yelled at once. ‘’ Dipper how did we get here because I have never heard of a place called Ponyville’’ Mable whispered. ‘’Me neither’’ Dipper said before clearing his throat. ‘’ My name is Dipper, this is my friend Soos and my twin sister Mable’’ He said pointing to the two ponies beside him. ‘’As you can see we are a bit lost and would like directions on how to get back to Gravity Falls.’’ Dipper said. ‘’Gravity Fall’’ Applejack said with confusion. ‘’ I be lying if I said I have heard of such a place let alone know where it is.’’ Apple jack said honestly. ‘’Oh’’ was all Dipper said before his drooped his head down low sadly. Mable and even Soos did the same as they came to realise that the machine brought them farther from home then they thought. ‘’ Look I might not know where this Gravity Fall is or what it is but my friend Twilight might know something as she as every kind of book imaginable when it comes to locates across Equestra.’’ Aj said with a smile which cheered the fillies and Pegasus up a bit. ‘’ I am sure she will be willing to help as soon as she gets done with her errands in Canterlot.’’Apple Jack said. ‘’How long will that take’’ Dipper asked. ‘’Well she should be back some time tomorrow.’’ Aj said. ‘’TOMORROW’’ the trio said. ‘’ We can’t wait that long as we have nowhere to stay’’ Dipper said. Apple Jack thought for a moment, ‘’Ah ha yall can stay at my house tonight, we have an extra guest room yall could stay in until Twilight can find yall a way home. ‘’ Thanks, I hope we are no imposing’’ Dipper said. ‘’ Oh not at all, I always lend a hoof to a pony in need.’’ Apple jack said. ‘’ Yay a sleep over’’ Mable said over joyed with finally getting to sleep somewhere that isn’t the old hard mattress she had to sleep on at the Mystery Shack. Dipper smiled as he gathered his journals off the ground and the followed AppleJack out of the forest heading toward Ponyville, unbeknownst to all of them a shadowy figure watched them leave before disappearing to finish the preparations of its plan. End of Chapter One. > Chapter Two: The Cutie Mark Crusaders > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ‘’And here we are…Sweet Apple Acres, home of the apple family.’’ AppleJack said with pride as she and the others walked through the gate leading into the farm. As they approached the farm house, they were greeted by the shouts of a little filly that was running toward AppleJack at a hurrying pace. ‘’ Big sis, do you know where some shovels are me, Scootaloo, and Sweetiebelle want to get our cutie marks in…’’ Was all Applebloom said as she saw Dipper, Mable and Soos. She gasped as she ran up to the other ponies in excitement. ‘’Big sis, who are they’’ Applebloom asked standing close to Dipper. ‘’Ah these are our guest… they will be staying here until tomorrow; that’s when Twilight should be able to send them home.’’ AppleJack said as she headed toward the door. ‘’Ah tomorrow!’’ Applebloom pouted. ‘’B-but they just got her can’t they stay just a little longer?’’ Applebloom asked. ‘’ Now Applebloom, I am sure these fillies have a family that they miss and wish to get back to and I am also certain that that family misses them too.’’ Apple Jack said. ‘’He-he you could say that’’ Dipper said as he recalled all the times Stan had ignored them when they were in trouble. ‘’Can I atleast show them around Ponyville.’’ Applebloom asked. ‘’That will be up to them, but first they should have a tour of the house and where they will be staying’’ AppleJack stated before trotting over to the farmhouse in order to inform Granny Smith of their new guest. ‘’So will you guys come exploring Ponyville with me’’ Applebloom asked with excitement ‘’I’m not sure that would be…’’ Dipper said as he was interrupted by Mable. ‘’Sure we would love too, isn’t that right Soos’’ Mable said as she looked at him. ‘’ Sure thing dudes’’ Soos said nonchalantly. Dipper just sighed as he reluctantly agreed. Applebloom jump up with joy at the thought of making new friends. After agreeing to their tour later, Dipper, Mable and Soos heard AppleJack call for them from the farm house to come in. Dipper and the others began trotting toward the farmhouse, leaving Applebloom excited for their tour latter on. Strangely though as Dipper trotted away, Applebloom began to feel a strange sensation as she watch the young colt descend closer to the house, but she quickly shook this feeling off though it did not completely disappear. Suddenly SweetieBelle jolted out of the barn while looking for Applebloom and accidently ran in to Dipper and they both tumbled over. As Dipper hit the ground a red journal flew out of a pocket in his jacket and slid toward Applebloom. Applebloom looked at the journal for a moment before noticing a 2 embedded in the centre of a 6 fingered hand. She turned to see Dipper and SweetieBelle getting up off the ground and was about to give the journal back when a spark of curiosity made her reconsider as she hid the book behind her. Dipper and SweetieBell was finally off the ground and regained their composure before SweetieBelle began to apologize for what happened. ‘’Oh I am so sorry, I was just coming to get Applebloom’’ SweetieBelle said innocently before walking toward Applebloom. ‘’Oh it’s no problem’’ Dipper said as he brushed some dirt off of his jacket before he, Soos and Mable headed inside the farm house leaving Applebloom and SweetieBell with journal number 2. ‘’Hey, have you two found the shovels yet’’ Scootaloo called out, peaking her head out of the door of the barn. ‘’Actually Scoots I have a change of plan’’ Applebloom replied before holding up the journal. ‘’ Whoa what kind of book is that?’’ Scootaloo asked ‘’ Ah don’t know… Dipper dropped it when he bumped into SweetieBelle.’’ Applebloom responded. ‘’Shouldn’t we return it to him?’’ SweetieBelle asked ‘’ I think we should read it’’ Scootaloo said. ‘’ No we should return it; it could be a personal item of his and we should respect his privacy’’ SweetieBelle argued. ‘’Gals ah don’t think this is a diary’’ Applebloom stated as she revealed the contents of the journal. As SweetieBelle and Scootaloo skimmed through the page the journal was opened to, they began to realise that this journal was unlike any book they had seen before. After they finishing skimming the page, the three fillies quickly ran to their clubhouse so they could further read the mysterious book. After touring the house, Applejack lead Dipper, Soos, and Mable to the guest room. Inside was a single bunk bed and a small captain’s bed on the opposite side and a dresser against the wall adjacent from the captain’s bed. Applejack moved out of the passage in order to allow the three ponies to enter the room. ‘’ Ah hope this is alright with yall, ah wasn’t expecting company to be staying over.’’ AppleJack said as the three ponies made themselves comfortable. ‘’I will do, thank you Miss Applejack’’ Dipper said. ‘’ Don’t yall worry about a thing it is always a pleasure to help ponies in need… also you can just call me AppleJack ah don’t wanna hear any of this ‘’miss’’ business’’ AppleJack said firmly. ‘’ Gottcha’’ Dipper said as he, Mable and Soos settled into the room they would be spending the night in. ‘’Isn’t this exciting Dipper’’ Mable said with glee as she hoped around the room. ‘’ No Mable it isn’t, what if this Twilight pony cannot send us back… We will never see mom or dad or even Grunkle Stan again’’ Dipper said sadly. ‘’ Don’t forget about Wendy dude’’ Soos said nonchalantly. ‘’Ohhh’’ Dipper sulked as he hid his face into a pillow leaving Soos regretting what he said. ‘’ It’s ok Dipper… I am sure we will find a way back to Gravity Falls eventually.’’ Mable said in a cheerful tone. Dipper could not help but to smile at his sisters attempt to comfort him. ‘’We can always go exploring with that adorable little pony we met earlier to look forward to’’ Mable said jumping off of Dippers bed and began to look around the room. ‘’ Yeah your right, we did kind of promise’’ Dipper said. ‘’ I say we should go explore the farm a bit before finding that little one, this might be the only chance we have to explore before we go home.’’ Mable said. ‘’ Well what are we waiting for, let’s do some exploring before we are introduce to this town, it would be kind of nice to learn a bit more about this new world and what secrets it might hold. Also it beats having Stan give us chores all day’’ Dipper said as he jumped out of bed and threw open the door to the guest room and they all headed outside to see the farm. After arriving back at their club house the cutie mark crusaders began to read through the journal, Applebloom had acquired. As they read through the journal the saw creatures that they have never seen before. The more they read in the journal, the more they began to believe the journal was just a work of fiction, albeit a strange one. But as they continued to reading, two words stuck out that made this book lean more toward reality than fiction, and that was Gravity Falls. ‘’I am starting to believe this is just a bad fairy tale book’’ Scootaloo said. ‘’ I have to agree, there is nothing to this book that could help us get our cutie marks’’ SweetieBell stated. ‘’ Wait gals, don’t dismiss this journal just yet, there might be som’thin to it.’’ Applebloom pointed out. ‘’ The journal keeps mentioning Gravity Falls… that the place ma sis said they were from, maybe they live there just like the weird creatures that live in ta Everfree Forest.’’ She stated. ‘’Well even if that is the case, how is this journal going to help us get our cutie marks? ‘’ Scootaloo asked. ‘’Yeah, all it seems to mention in this weird book is creatures we have never seen and don’t know if they even exist’’ SweetieBell added. ‘’ Well going by the off chance these here creatures are real… then maybe one of them can help us get our cutie marks’’ Applebloom said. ‘’WHAT’’ SweetieBell and Scootaloo yelled at once. ‘’ Are you serious, all of these monsters look terrifying, we don’t even know if they are friendly and even if we found one, there is no guarantee that it would not eat us or .... WORSE!’’ Scootaloo said as she placed her hooves on her cheeks in terror. ‘’ W-what could be worse than being eaten’’ SweetieBell asked nervously. ‘’ Trust me you don’t want to know’’ Scootaloo added. ‘’Don’t be so certain gals, look at this here creature’’ Applebloom said as she pointed to the picture of the creature in question. The two of them began to read the passage in the book below as small picture of what looked like a cute cat-like creature, with blue and black fur,rose petals around its neck and four little antennas on its head. It wore what looked like a red tutu and held a small black stick in its paw, was tapped on the page just below the text. The passage read: Creature # 223”: THE FAIRY LILLY This cute cat like creature, is capable of causing two people to become infatuated with each other. After long observation, the couple that have been affected by The Fairly Lillies spell has lived a seemingly normal life. The creature cast as spell that causes a purple mist to surround its potential victims causing them to fall in love with the first person they come in contact with. This creature is not native to Gravity Falls, and must be summoned by meeting the requirements in the list below: 1: 6 rose pedals 2: 6 candles (preferably scented) 3: A small a patch of cat's fur Once items are collected, follow these instructions in order to perform the ritual: Step One: Place candles onto a soft patch of dirt in a shape of a circle, once placed move on to Step Two. Step Two: Place rose pedals in the centre of the candles in the shape of a even smaller circle. Step Three: Place the patch of fur in the centre of the rose pedals. Step Four: Once you complete Steps 1-3, carefully light the candles ‘’ one at a time’’ and then state the following sentence: "I LOVE YOU", three times and the "Fairly Lilly" will be summoned and obey the commands of the one that summoned her. ‘’Awww its sooo cute’’ SweetieBell said after she finished reading. ‘’Well it does look harmless, but what exactly does it mean by (victim).’’ Scootaloo asked. ‘’I don’t know, it might have been a typo.’’ Applebloom said. ‘’ Anyway the journal says we can summon it by performing this ritual.’’ Applebloom stated as she points to the list of items they need. ‘’It says her that we are going to need the following items: 6 rose pedals, 6 candles, a patch of fur and an ounce of unicorn’s magic’’ Applebloom read. ‘’ I can get the rose pedals and candles, but where will we get the unicorns magic? Scootaloo asked. ‘’I could possibly get it from Rarity’’ Sweetiebell stated; ‘’But she may not be too keen on what we are about to do, I mean what if it is dangerous’’ Sweetiebell stated with uncertainty. ‘’ No we are gonna have to get it from Twilight’’ Applebloom stated. ‘’I am sure she will be happy to give us some and don’t worry, just look at how adorable it is, it’s going to be fine’’ Applebloom said. ‘’But Twilight won’t be home until tomorrow’’ SweetieBelle said. ‘’ I know…. (gasp) I almost forgot, I promised to show Dipper and the others around Ponyville before Twilight sends them back to "Gravity Falls’’ Applebloom said as she ran out of her clubhouse to give the new fillies the tour the promised. ‘’What was that all about?’’ Scootaloo asked in which SweetieBelle only shrugged in response. The two fillies were preparing to leave in order to collect the other materials, so they could summon the creature.As they left the clubhouse, they left the journal placed on top of a small wooden table before exited. As they disappeared from view a shadow like figure appeared from one of there posters and floated in front of the journal. After examining what the fillies were reading, the shadow took the picture of the "Fairy Lilly'' and flipped through the book the book until he happened upon a page for summoning a creature called "Bill Cipher" and placed the picture over 'Bill's' picture before disappearing with a light chuckle. Applebloom rushed back home so she could see what Dipper and the others are doing. As she arrived back, she rushes up to the guest room only to find them not there. Applebloom gasped as she ran back down stairs to ask if her sister new were they went. ‘’Big sis, big sis do yall know where Dipper and the others went’’ Applebloom asked franticly. ‘’Oh they said they wanted to explore around the orchard.’’ AppleJack said. With this knowledge, Applebloom immediately runs outside only to bump into Dipper as they were heading back into the house. ‘’Oww’’ Applebloom said as she rubbed her head with her hooves. ‘’Oh sorry, I did not see you’’ Dipper said as he raise a hoof out to pick her up. Applebloom slightly blushed as she accepted his hoof, once she was back on her feet Mable was the first to ask ‘’ So are you ready to go’’ she asked with a smile. ‘’ Yeah I am ready’’ Applebloom stated as she headed toward the door and motioned them to follow. As they exist the gate leading into the farm she was extremely excited to show her new friends around town, but at the same time she felt a little sadden that they will be leaving so soon. Clearing those thoughts from her mind she quickened her pace as the others followed behind, excited to see the town and the new world they are in. They quickly see a small town come into view over the hill; Applebloom who was leading them comes to a sudden stop as she turns around to view the other ponies following her before saying. ‘’Welcome to Ponyville’’ End of Chapter Two > Chapter Three: The Plan > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Applebloom showed the trio around Ponyville, and introduced them to a few of the local ponies. She took them past the “Carousel Boutique” in which Mable noticed a dress on display that she really liked. The eventually came across the “Golden Oaks Library” but it was closed for the day, so they continued on. Eventually Dipper became impatient and wished to return back to “Sweet Apple Acre’s”. “ Not to be rude, but it looks like it’s getting late why don’t we head back so we can get an early start at returning home” Dipper stated with an embarrassed smile. “But we still have to see ‘Sugar Cube Corner’ I want to introduce you guys to my friend ‘Pinkie Pie’. Just as Applebloom finished her sentence, a bright pink pony burst out of a nearby bush nearly giving Dipper a heart attack. “Did somepony say my name… Huhhhhhhhh, omygoshomygoshomygosh, why did no one tell me there was new ponies in town, I have to throw them a “Welcome to Ponyville Party”. Pinkie stated as she bounced around the fillies. “ O my gosh, I love parties “ Mable said ecstatically. ‘’I do too, you three should come by tomorrow at the same time and I will throw you the bestest, most funnest party in town” Pinkie Pie shouted. “Thanks but no thanks, we have to go back home tomorrow” Dipper said. Awww! Pinkie, Soos and Mable said in unison with Pinkie Pie beginning to tear up. “Aww come on Dipper, it will be fun, also we have plenty of time to go home, and we can just go after the party.” Mable pleaded with Dipper. “Yeah come on dude, lighten up.. I mean it’s not every day you get invited to a party”. Soos remarked. “ Do you guys not see the severity of the situation we are in, we are trapped here in Ponyville, we don’t even know if we can return home and all you guys are concerned about is some party, for all we know Grunkle Stan could be wondering around the Mystery Shack, worried sick about us” Dipper said frantically. MEAN WHILE: “Kids, kids, shesh where the heck are those two, these “Stan Pines” bobble heads aren’t going to sell themselves… eh forget it, I am sure they will show up later”. Stan said as he headed toward the fridge. “I probably should go look for those two”. Stan said as he rummaged through the fridge. “O hey, pizza. Wait is this still any good” Stan mumbled to himself as he smelled the slice of pizza. He shrugged as he popped the piece into his mouth and shut the fridge before walking away. “ Pleeeeease Dipper” Mable begged. Dipper looked around at the group of ponies that looked at him with saddened expressions. Dipper crossed his hooves and sighed. “Fine”! Dipper said with a little annoyance. Mable, Soos, Pinkie and Applebloom jumped up with joy while Dipper just sat there annoyed that Mable and Soos is wasting time he believes they don’t have. “This is ‘AMAZING’, I promise your party will be the best one you have ever had.” Pinkie said as she bounced happily away from the group. “Bye “. Mable waved as the pink mare bounced out of view. “This town is awesome, everyone here is so nice, I wish people back in our town could be so charitable”. Said Mable. It was late that afternoon by the time Applebloom and the others returned to the farm and AJ already had dinner made. Everyone ate their dinner and went off to bed preparing for the day ahead. The next morning, Applebloom and the others were awoken by loud knocking on the door, as Applebloom went to answer it she became startled when a pink mare ran past her. "Goooood morning I hope you all are excited for my party tonight" Pinkie said with glee. "We are, but isn't a tad to early"? Dipper asked. "Oh silly me I almost forgo...." was all Pinkie could say before Scootaloo and Sweetiebelle both snatched a startled Applebloom before running off. "What was that all about"? Mable asked. "I have no idea" Dipper said. "Me neither" Pinkie shrugged. "Anyway what I was about to tell you is that I need you 3's help, we have a lot of planning to do if we are to get all of these parties ready” Pinkie pie said as she bounced back toward the door. “Parties? You mean there more we have to go to after our party”. Dipper grimaced. “While yes there is another apart besides yours, I am going to throw them both together and call it the, “Welcome to Ponyville and Welcome home Twilight” party. Pinkie said as she threw confetti from her hooves. “Thats why I am here so early, so we can get everything ready before Twilight gets home”. Pinkie said now out the door with Dipper, Mable and Soos following behind. “But won’t this ruin our surprize”? Mable asked. “Huuuuuuuuh”! Pinkie gasped, “You are right, I did not think about that. On second thought you 3 go play and I will find somepony else to help and will come back to get you 3 tonight when the party starts”. Pinkie said as she ran off out of the barn. “Oh RainbowDash”, was all Dipper and Mable heard before she disappeared. Dipper just sighed with annoyance, before realizing what she just said. “Wait, tonight”? Dipper questioned. “So we have to stay another night”. Dipper grimaced while Mable and Soos both said “Yes” in unison and gave each other a hive five or in this case a hive hoove. Meanwhile: “Hey where are we going”? Applebloom asked as her friends rushed her out of the barn and toward their club house. Upon arrival Applebloom, finally is able to free herself and asked Scoots and Sweetie what they were in such a hurry for in a rather annoyed tone. “I want y’all to tell me why y’all dragged me all the way here so early in the morning. “Ah was hoping to get some more sleep before AppleJack had me do chores”. Applebloom said. “Sorry”! Sweetiebelle and Scootaloo said in unison. “We were just excited because we now have everything we need to summon that creature”. Scoots said. “Yeah, we even have a picture of Diamond Tiara and Silverspoon with a X crossed over them”. Sweetiebelle said holding up the small picture. “Wait, WHAT”? Applebloom asked with confusion? “How did y’all get all of the material, Twilight isn’t even home yet and won’t be until tonight so how did y’all get the unicorn magic… I don’t remember having to have a picture for the summoning”. Applebloom remarked. “Yeah, we were a bit confused by it ourselves, but then we thought that maybe the author made a mistake and updated it on another page; looking over the page is different than the one we first encountered it on” Sweetiebelle said. “Really? Let me see”. Applebloom asked as she took the book from Sweetiebelle and skimmed over it. Sure enough the page had indeed changed and so had the summoning spell. Closing the book Applebloom contemplated before replying with a big smile. “This is great, now we can do it right away.. come on lets go summon it”. Applebloom said as she ran toward the door only to be stopped by Scootaloo. “Actually there is one thing we forgot to mention”. Scootaloo said as she gulped. “What is it” Applebloom asked. “Well the new summoning rules said we need to do it in a dark forest and the only one that comes to mind is the Everfree”. Scootaloo said. “The E..Everfree Forest” Applebloom said before slumping down low. “AppleJack won’t let me go there again, do to the whole cockatrice incident, atleast not without a adult”. Applebloom sighed. “Well we could go tonight, won’t everypony be at Pinkies party”? Scootaloo asked. “Are ya crazy, night time is when most of the dangerous creatures come out, also would Pinkie become suspicious if she found out we were not there”? Applebloom asked. “Thats why we will go to the party, great Pinkie Pie and then when the time is right, leave and head toward the Everfree, also we won’t go far, most creatures in the Everfree won’t leave the forest so we will stay close to the entrance so we can flee if we spot anything”. Scootaloo said with confidence. Applebloom sighed in defeat before agreeing to the plan. They would attend the party and then head toward the forest. Meanwhile: “It sure was nice of the princess to lend me all of these books, wasn’t it Spike”? Twilight said as she trotted through Canterlot, toward the train station. “Yeah it was.. I just wish it wasn’t so many” Spike mumbled, holding a large pile of books. “What was that” Twilight asked. “Nothing” Spike immediately replied. “Oh Spike I can’t wait to get back to Ponyville and get to reading all of these new books”. Twilight said, with joy as they approached the train station. As the train pulled into the station, Twilight exclaimed “ Next stop Ponyville”. > Chapter Four: Secrets > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- A few hours of grueling boredom passed as Dipper found nothing he was interested in out of the many activities Applebloom suggested. He was waiting patiently for this party that Pinkie was throwing to start so he could get it over with and find a way to get home. Mable and Soos on the other hand were having a blast as Applebloom , Sweetiebelle and Scootaloo all played hide and seek with Soos being the seeker. Dipper sighed and decided to excuse himself and went back to the guest room inside the farmhouse hoping to get some peace sense Soos and Mable were currently occupied. He laid down on one of the beds and pulled out his journal and began to scroll through it, frantically trying to find something, anything he could have missed. It was long after he had skimmed through the book that he fell asleep. A few hours had passed by the time Soos and Mable made it back to their room only to find Dipper passed out on the bed with his journal laying open on his chest. They had only just entered the room when their door swung open, revealing a very excited Pinkie Pie. Pinkie pushed Soos and Mable out the door and told them to wait while she got Dipper. Dipper was then rudely awoken by Pinkie Pie as she came to inform him that the party was about to start. “Wakey wakey sleepy head” Pinkie screamed nearly giving Dipper a heart attack. “Ahhhhhhhhh!” Dipper said as he leaped up and fell off the bed. He regained his posture quickly and picked himself up as well as the journal that had fallen on the floor. Pinkie gave an interested look at the book but Dipper ignored it and placed the journal back into his vest pocket. He then turned to Pinkie to ask why she woke him up but before he could ask, Pinkie answered his question. “Before you ask I just came by to inform you the party was starting any minute, Applebloom and AppleJack already left, headed toward SugarCube Corner and Soos and Mable is waiting outside. You should quickly get yourself ready and lets go, go go go” Pinkie exclaimed with excitement as she bounced around Dipper. Dipper said nothing and only sighed as he grabbed his hat and placed it back on his head. “Ok I’m read-Ahhhhhhhhhh!” Was all Dipper could say before he was snatched by Pinkie as she dragged him out of the room, grabbing the others on the way out and toward the gate exiting Sweet Apple Acres. They quickly made their way through town and arrived at a large gingerbread house looking bakery. “Were here” Pinkie exclaimed before pushing open the doors and pulling Dipper, Mable and Soos inside. As soon as they entered, they were greeted with a loud chorus of ponies who blew streamers and confetti everywhere as they greeted the new ponies in “Ponyville”. Mable and Soos went wide eyed as they saw all of the confections and decorations for the party. “I think I have died and went to heaven.” Mable exclaimed. “(Gasp)” Oh no, did my party scare you to death? Pinkie said in a panicked tone. “Um no, that was just a figure of speech” Mable said, to which Pinkie Pie calmed. “So um… where is Twilight?” Dipper asked, hoping to speak with the unicorn. “Oh Twilight won’t be back for another hour, so we can enjoy your party, and then set up “Twilights Welcome Home Party.” Pinkie had the biggest grin on her face as she imagined Twilights expression to her party. “So there will be two parties in a row” Mable and Soos said in unison as they pranced around an annoyed Dipper. “But I thought there was only one” Dipper asked puzzled. “Oh there was originally going to be but, Twilight is late getting home and I already prepared this party for you three so it wouldn’t go to waste.” Pinkie answered with a smile. Mable and Soos had stopped prancing and walked over to Dipper and Pinkie; “Oh come on Dipper it will be fun, and besides you have been a grumpy pants lately, and you need to lighten up” Mable said rubbing her hoof in Dippers face. “Yeah come on Dude, lighten up.” Soos said as he pulled Dipper up next to him. Dipper let out a long sigh, “We are going to be here a while”. Three fillies had gathered in the back room, out of sight of the large crowd of ponies as they planned out their next move. Scootaloo pulled out several small candles out of a bag she had and a match. “I got the candles.” She said. Sweetibelle pulled out a picture frame with a photo of Diamond Tiara and Silverspoon on it, with a large red ‘X’ crossed over it. “I got the picture.” Sweetie said in a singsong voice. “And ah brought the book, now all we need to do is sneak out and make our way into the Everfree Forest.” Applebloom stated as the three fillies looked around at the crowd of distracted ponies, looking for a place to make their exit. The three filly’s noticed a small opening that lead to the entrance of Sugar Cube Corner, were they could squeeze though the currently distracted ponies. Applebloom, SweetieBelle and Scootaloo made their way silently past the group of ponies while also looking out for Pinkie and their sisters. The made it to the door and out of the bakery, in which they headed toward the Everfree Forest, unbeknownst to anypony, there was a black shadowy figure hovering behind them as they departed in the forest. It’s really late when Twilight and Spike got home, Twilight had hoped to get some sleep when they got back but as soon as she opened the door she was greeted by Pinkie and a bunch of other ponies that screamed “Surprise” causing Twilight to nearly leap out of her skin. After gathering her bearings she annoyingly sigh and figured she would enjoy the party and would go to bed latter, it would be nice to have let Pinkie go through the trouble and leave her empty hooved. A couple of hours past and it was now really late at night as the last of the party goes were leaving her library with her friends staying behind to help clean up. “So how was your party?” Pinkie asked, while bouncing around Twilight. “It was great Pinkie, as usual” Twilight said as she yawned. “But I really need to get some sleep” she said as she was heading off to her room. She passed by Dipper, Mable and Soos who were passed out on the floor with Soos and Mable having frosting all over their muzzles. “Who are these three” Twilight stopped to ask. “Oh these three fillies here, ah saved them the other day, found them snooping around in the Everfree about to be attacked by TimberWolves” AppleJack said. “Do you know where they came from? Where their parents could be?” Twilight asked only for AJ to shake her head. “Ah be lying if I said ah did” AJ replied. Just as Twilight was about to ask another question, Dipper began to wake up, upon seeing the purple unicorn he immediately jumped up and ran over to the unicorn, excited to finally be able to ask her help to get home. “I have been waiting to get to meet you,” Dipper said in a haste, “I’ve been told you can help me, my sister and our friend Soos, get back to our home in Gravity Falls.” “Gravity Falls?” Twilight asked puzzled as she levitated several books that displayed locations all throughout Equestria. She began to scroll through the books until she found one that displayed a map showing the entire overworld of Equestria, but she did not see any place called ‘Gravity Falls’. “I’m sorry but I don’t see the placed you described anywhere on these maps.” Twilight said. “What!” Dipper said in a worried tone as he grabbed the book and looked over the map several times. He noticed the world layout was completely different to that of the maps he say back in Gravity Falls and all of the places that he saw on the map, he was certain was not places that existed in any maps he saw at the museum or library. “This cannot be” Dipper exclaimed as he pulled out Journal #3 and began to scroll through it. Twilight could only look in confusion as the little filly kept scrolling frantically through his little book. When her eyes caught wind of the 6 fingered hand and #3 on it her eyes went wide. The Journal was not providing Dipper with the info he needed, he groaned and sat down with a depressed look on his face. “Are you alright?” Twilight finally asked snapping out of her stupor. “If it will make you fill any better, the map in that book is only a compressed version and does not contain all locations in the world, I could return to Canterlot tomorrow to see if the princess has a more complete version of the world map.” “It won’t do any good” Dipper said, with a bit of distraught in his voice. “Why won’t it” Rainbow Dash asked, slightly confused by the situation. Dipper bit his lip as he was not sure if he should tell them about what he just figured out, as he was afraid they would not believe him, but he had little options, himself, Mable and Soos needed to return home and these ponies were the only ones that could help him find some way. “Because Gravity Falls doesn’t exist in this dimension” Dipper finally said. “WHAT!” All the ponies exclaimed in shock, as they took in what Dipper just said. Mable and Soos was now awake, startled and awoken by the sudden scream. “What’s going on” Mable asked drearily. “Your brother believes that you home exist in another dimension, which is not possible as that would mean you three had to have come from another dimension as well.” Twilight said. “I am serious” Dipper shouted, “Me, Mable and Soos came from another dimension, at first I had though we only teleported here but now I know that machine must have brought us to another world.” “Um..what now?” Twilight asked, still confused as to what the filly was saying. “Um can you excuse me and my brother for a sec?” Mable asked quickly as she pulled Dipper to the side. “What are you doing?” she asked in a whispered tone. “ These ponies might be our only way home and I just found out, Gravity Falls is just some hitchhike away, were in another dimension” Dipper whispered back. Mable went silent then sighed and made a nodding motion, indicating for Dipper to tell them. Dipper turned back to Twilight and the others and began to explain what happened before Apple Jack saved them from the Timber Wolves. “It was the middle of the night when our Great Uncle Stan had decided to leave the Mystery Shack and went out for a drive, of course this behavior was normal for our uncle so we did not think any about it at the time. The next morning however I went to go get our uncle to make breakfast when I saw the vending machine in the middle of our gift shop was now leaning wide open like a door revealing a flight of stair leading to a secret room. After getting Soos and my sister, we investigated the room, only to find it was a small lab located under our uncle’s museum. We walked through it until we found a door leading to a much bigger room, inside we found a huge triangle shaped device with a large circle in the center and some weird text written around the circle. Soos accidentally hit a lever nearby and the machine and it started up, there was a blinding white light as a powerful force began to pull us toward the center of the triangle. The next thing we knew we woke up in the middle of that strange forest and was chased by this pack of wooden wolves. The rest is you all know” Dipper confessed. Twilight looked at her friends who were rather confused and shocked by the little colts story, on one hand it felt a little farfetched that this story wasn’t something the little colt made up, on the other hand however, it is just as unlikely the fillies got lost in the Everfree Forest near Ponyville when this Gravity Falls is likely somewhere far beyond Equestria, far too far for 3 fillies to have wondered all the way to Ponyville. Twilight was about to speak when Apple Jack spoke up. “It’s not that we don’t want to believe ya, Dipper…it’s just that story is a little hard to believe.” Apple Jack replied honestly. “But it’s true” Dipper said as he held the journal open up to Twilight revealing the contents inside. He scrolled to a page that showed a mini map of Gravity Falls. Twilight was surprised by this book even more so do to the fact this info confirms her suspicions about the book. AppleJack looks sheepishly at Twilight, hoping she has an answer for this. Twilight sighed and looked at Dipper and began to speak. “Look, this info is hard to believe as many books I possess that talks about dimension jumping is nothing but science fiction and would be impossible for a normal unicorn to pull off..” Twilight was cut off looking at the sadden look of the young fillies. “But” Twilight continued. “If you will be willing to let me borrow your journals, I might be able to study them and find some way to send you home, I mean if what you said is true and this book hold secrets from your dimension, it may hold a way to return you home.” Dipper was very reluctant to just hand over the journals, while these ponies have proven, not to be a threat and are rather friendly, Dipper just had to many bad experiences letting other creatures besides his family touch the journals, but her logic is sound, if there is any way to send them home then the journals may hold the answer. “Ok I will lend them to you but I really want them back when you find something” Dipper said as he handed over the first journal. “I promise I will” Twilight said. Dipper handed her another journal with a # 1 engraved on it, and as he reached in his coat to get the last journal, he froze as he felt nothing in his vest pocket. He began to dig deeper in his vest until deciding to take it off all together and frantically shaking it in desperation to find a journal that was no longer there. When Journal #2 did not appear, Dipper began to panic, he had lost one of the journals in this new world anyone (or in Dippers case anypony) could have just waltzed by and picked up the journal and walked off and Dipper would have no clues as to which pony did so. “No no no no no no this can’t be happening” Dipper screamed out. “Dipper calm down, I am sure you can find your bo…” Was all Twilight managed to say before the door of her library slammed open and three frantic little fillies rushed inside. Applebloom was the first of the fillies to speak, while the others were still catching their bearings. “Twilight, Twilight” the little filly exclaimed. “We did something awful” Applebloom admitted. “Girls calm down, and calmly tell me what happened” Twilight said Before Applebloom could answer, AppleJack interrupted. “Where in tarnation have you fillies been” AppleJack said with a stern look. “Ah was about to come looking for you three” Applebloom looked up nervously at her sister, scared to tell her the truth, but she is aware of the gravitation of what her and her friends did, she has to warn Twilight and the others. “We were in the Everfree Forest” AppleJack spoke up only to get gasps from the other ponies. “Why were ya’ll in the Everfree, didn’t I tell you never to go there without supervision” AppleJacked scolded her little sister. “Yeah you did, but we went there trying to get our cutiemarks in monster hunting, using this journal” Sweetiebelle said pulling out a worn out red journal baring a six fingered hand with the number 2 imprinted in the middle of the hand. “Hey that’s my journal” Dipper exclaimed before snatching the journal from Sweetiebelle. “What were you girls doing with his journal, and how was it going to help you monster hunt” Twilight asked. “Ooo maybe the journal has magical monster locating powers” Pinkie Pie said in an eerie tone. “Don’t be ridiculous” Rainbow said. “A book can’t locate monsters, that’s just absurd” “It’s true, that journal is filled with different monsters and how to summon them, and we made the mistake of summoning one” Applebloom said catching the attention of Dipper, Mable and Soos. “Wh-who d…did you summon” Dipper asked only for AppleJack to interrupt the conversation. “Ah don’t wana here anymore of this monster nonsense” Applejack said. “Ya’ll went into the Everfree Forest without anypony being there to insure you were safe and you took one of Dippers journals without his permission, I otta ground all three of ya, but I’m going to make ya’ll work on my farm all day tomorrow as punishment.” AppleJack warned. “But” Applebloom said, but was cut off by AJ. “No ‘buts’ ah want ya’ll to apologize to Dipper and then I am taking you three home, it is way past your bed times. Sighing in defeat, the three fillies apologized to Dipper before AppleJack lead the little fillies out, turning to inform Dipper not to stay to much longer and to return to the farm. As AppleJack left, Dipper couldn’t help but feel a bit worried that Applebloom and her friends actually summoned something, but seeing how nothing has happened yet, Dipper was skeptical but he was going to question Applebloom on this later. He turned to Twilight and handed the final journal to her, hoping that the three journals possessed some means to return them home before himself, Soos and his sister said their goodbyes and left the library so they could catch up to AppleJack. After everypony had left, Twilight gathered the three journals and frantically ran to her desk. She laid the journals on the desk before walking over to her bed side cabinet and pushing it aside, revealing a secret hatch. Upon opening the hatch, it revealed as small metal box with a key attached to the side of it. Twilight lifted the box out and carried it to her desk before informing Spike that she would be up late studying and told him to go to bed in which he complied. After insuring he was asleep, Twilight returned to her desk and used the key to open the metal container, inside was a worn out red book that she immediately pulled out and placed next to the other journals, after blowing off some dust it revealed that the book had the same kind of six fingered hand symbol the other journals had only the number that was imprinted on this book was number 4. Twilight could not hold back her excitement, this could answer so many of her questions but it also revealed some new ones. Twilight looked at the 4 journals, “Finally, maybe I’ll be able to solve this mystery” Twilight said as she opened the first page of Journal #1.