



The Secrets of Gravity Malls. It was a wonderful day at the Mystery Shack. Customers were coming. Business was going great. Everything was going great or so Soos and Melody thought. A certain customer came up to them. He was russian, he was burly, he had spiky black hair sunglasses, and was wearing a leather jacket. "Hello. Are you owner of Mystery Shack?" the burly russian man said with a russian accent and broken English. "Yes, dood." said Soos. "I am Anton. Anton Popov." said the man. "Hey, so do you need something?" asked Melody. "No. I don't. I however have questions for Mr. Pines. If he is here." said Anton. "He's watching TV, dood. Do not disturb him." said Soos. "Yo, dudes. Check the news." said Wendy. "Be right back, dood." said Soos. Soos, Melody, and Wendy went to go check out the news. Grunkle Stan was sitting in his chair. "Hello citizens of Gravity Falls, this is Shandra Jimenez here with an important announcement. Tyler Cutebiker has been replaced as Mayor by his assistant, Eric Lawrence. Tyler Cutebiker was found guilty of corruption and sabotaging businesses while favoring Gravity Malls. And now a speech from our new mayor." said Shandra on TV. "Hello, everyone. I am your new mayor, Eric Lawrence. I'm going to make the town of Gravity Falls great again. I have a surprise for you all! Right now, I'm at the construction site where something very special has been built for over a year and now it's finally completed! Introducing, Mayor Lawrence's Fun Fair! It's original title was Mayor Tyler's Fun Fair but now that he's been replaced by me, I renamed it. This event will happen on the Fourth of July. Come to the event and celebrate America's freedom with us this Fourth of July." said Mayor Lawrence on TV. "Doods, this mayor sounds fake." said Soos. "Soos, take it from me. Some of the people in this town are literally the dumbest." said Grunkle Stan. "Ah, Mr. Pines." said Anton. "Who's this guy?" asked Grunkle Stan. "I am Anton Popov. I have questions for you regarding town." said Anton. "Um, okay. Let me just explain it this way. This town is weird. It's filled with paranormal mysterious spooky stuff that nobody knows anything about." said Grunkle Stan. "I know you lie." said Anton as he pulled out a gun. "Tell the truth now!" yelled Anton. "I don't think so tough guy!" said Grunkle Stan as he punched Anton's gun out of his hand. He restrained him and threw him out the door. "Now get off this property and don't come back." said Grunkle Stan. Anton Popov ran off. "Wait a minute, was that a russian?!" asked Ford coming out of the lab with Dipper and Mabel. "Yeah of course it was." said Grunkle Stan. "Oh no, this could be very bad. If the Russians are here in Gravity Falls, they are probably here to weaponize this towns weirdness. Luckily I have someone spying on them." said Ford. "Wait, evil russians?!" asked Mabel. "Well people have been saying they've spotted Russians at the Mall doing mysterious activity. We should investigate." said Dipper. "Me, Melody, and Wendy will go investigate, doods." said Soos. *Scene cuts to Gravity Malls.* Soos, Melody, and Wendy are at the mall looking for the Russians. Soos spots two russian men watching him. "Doods, I see two russian guys watching me." said Soos. The two men ran off and Soos, Melody, and Wendy followed in pursuit. But in following them, they came upon a familiar friend who was hiding from the russians. It was Old Man McGucket. "McGucket? What are you doing here?!" asked Soos. "Stanford sent me here to investigate them evil russians. Now let's go and find where they are going to!" said Old Man McGucket as he ran after the russians with Soos, Melody, and Wendy. *Scene cuts to Grunkle Stan and Ford walking in town.* "Alright, so we've managed to chase Anton Popov all the way here to the town hall." said Ford. "Except we lost him." said Grunkle Stan. "Yeah but he went off in this direction. I have a feeling he's close." said Ford. Suddenly Grunkle Stan and Ford saw Anton go into the town hall. They followed him in. They then saw him go into the Mayor's office. Outside the Mayor's office, Grunkle Stan and Ford overheard Anton talking to the mayor. "Don't worry, I have it all covered. After all, I framed Tyler for corruption and sabotaging businesses for Gravity Malls. Nobody has any idea I granted the land to you russian guys. They have no idea Russia was involved. They all think he was favoring Gravity Malls. They have no idea about the secret headquarters there. All is fine so you can back off, buddy." said Mayor Lawrence. "Don't mess this up! Remember, we got you into your position and we can take you out of it. We can just as easily kill you as well." said Anton angrily. "Yeah yeah, I know. I get it. You're a big scary russian." said Mayor Lawrence annoyed. "You better keep your mouth shut." said Anton as he walked out of the Mayor's Office. He didn't see Grunkle Stan or Ford. They then went into the Mayor's office. "Ah, Stan and Ford. The Pines Brothers." said Mayor Lawrence. "I know, I know. You're busy but I'm going to make this fast I promise." said Grunkle Stan. "Is there some kind of problem?" asked Mayor Lawrence. "Yeah, you might say that. I'm looking for a guy named Anton Popov. I know you know him. He was just here a few minutes ago. He's got dark hair, he's got a big build, a square jaw, and he's russian." said Ford. "I don't think I remember him." said Mayor Lawrence. "Really because it was just a few minutes ago." said Grunkle Stan annoyed. "Wait I think I remember now. It was the janitor. He came to me saying there was trouble with the floors and that they were slippery. Other than that, I don't remember a big russian guy even though I do shake hands with a lot of guys." said Mayor Lawrence. "This isn't a game. Just remember, I remember how you wormed your way to power last year. You did it by rigging the votes for Mayor's Assistant, buddy. So I'd start talking if I were you. Otherwise I'm going to tell everyone what I saw." said Grunkle Stan. "Oh, I've got some real fun stories about you too, buddy. So unless you back down, I'll tell everyone about your criminal past and get you arrested for tax evasion. Now if you don't mind, I really am busy and I do have work to do." said Mayor Lawrence happily making his way to the door. Grunkle Stan then threw him against the wall and Ford pulled out his gun. "Now I know you met with him! I heard you talking about sabotaging Tyler Cutebiker. Your russian friend tried to kill me today so start talking or Stanford here blows you to bits, buddy." said Grunkle Stan. "You're making a big mistake." said Mayor Lawrence. Ford loaded his gun. "Are you two insane?!" asked Mayor Lawrence. "Let's find out. Start talking or I'll shoot your kneecap." said Ford angrily. "Alright so this guy. He gives me things sometimes. Money, presents, gifts. He works for Gravity Malls. They own the mall. They want to expand the town. They needed some property. Some land. People didn't want to sell so I leaned on them a little. The deeds are in my mansion. I swear that's all!" cried Mayor Lawrence. *Scene cuts to outside of Gravity Malls.* Soos, Melody, Wendy, and McGucket are outside at the back of the mall and see several delivery men with boxes and several russian men with military guns. The building on the other side of the mall are where the boxes are going to. The men are seen delivering boxes to it. The loading doors open. Soos however bangs the side of the building they were spying from. This catches the attention of one of the guards. "Sorry, doods." whispered Soos. "You guys stay here. I'll go find help at the Mystery Shack." shouted Old Man McGucket. "Quiet! They probably heard that!" whispered Wendy. The russian guards were advancing towards their location. Old Man McGucket ran off away from the Mall to go find help. Wendy, Soos, and Melody sneaked around and found an opening to the loading doors. They got inside. "So, um. Who wants to check inside those boxes?" asked Melody. "I'm so on it, doods." said Soos. He checked inside one of the boxes. Inside were containers of unknown tools. "We found what we came here for, let's get out of here now." said Melody. "Hold on, I'll push the button to let us out." said Wendy. Wendy pushed the button to open the door however it didn't work. She kept doing this. It still didn't work. The room started moving. "Uh, doods? Is it just me or is the room moving?!" asked Soos. "It's moving.." said Wendy nervously. Melody, Wendy, and Soos all screamed at once as it descended into the earth. *Scene cuts to Grunkle Stan, Ford, and Mayor Lawrence at the Mayor's mansion.* "Love the place, Eric. Did you shoot that bear yourself? asked Grunkle Stan pointing to the bear rug in the mansion. "That's fake." said Mayor Lawrence. "No kidding. I used to scam people so of course I know that." said Grunkle Stan. Mayor Lawrence took the land deeds out of his safe. "What are we looking at here?" asked Ford. "Land deeds, dummy." said Mayor Lawrence. "So your buddies at Gravity Malls start buying up land for what reason?" asked Grunkle Stan. "I don't know." said Mayor Lawrence annoyed. "Wrong answer." said Ford. "Alright, they wanted to build a gate. They called it a gate. These people are bad news. They want to weaponize whatever is inside the gate. To possibly use it as a weapon. I've been letting them build it for a year under the nose of the former mayor. I was able to do more when I framed Tyler." said Mayor Lawrence. "Thanks, buddy. You did the right thing. However we can't have you go telling the russians so we are just going to leave you here handcuffed for now." said Grunkle Stan as he handcuffed Mayor Lawrence. "Let's go, Ford." said Grunkle Stan. *Scene cuts to the Mystery Shack.* Grunkle Stan and Ford arrive back at the Mystery Shack. Dipper and Mabel are inside. "I finally figured out the plans of Russia thanks to our new mayor." said Ford. "Our new mayor is corrupt and involved with Russia?!" asked Dipper. "Yes. It seems the Russians are the ones who opened the gate to Bill's dimension. They want to weaponize the weirdness in his dimension against this country." said Ford. "What do we do?!" asked Mabel. "I'm sure we can take them on. We've fried bigger fish than them." said Grunkle Stan. "Oh really." said Anton as he arrived at the shack. Anton pulled out a rifle but before he could shoot, Grunkle Stan held a gun to his head. "Drop the weapon! Now!" said Grunkle Stan. "Or what?! You're going to shoot?!" asked Anton. "Yeah if you don't put that thing away, I'm going to blow the daylights out of you." said Grunkle Stan ready to shoot. "No, you won't do that." said Anton. "Why's that?" asked Grunkle Stan. "Because you're a citizen. Citizens have rules for them." said Anton. "Want to test that theory, buddy?" asked Grunkle Stan. He cocked his gun and Anton started shooting his rifle around. They started wrestling for the gun as he shot his rifle around. He lifted Grunkle Stan and threw him to the ground. Police sirens went off outside. Anton ran into the woods. The cops were chasing him. *Scene cuts to the elevator shaft Soos, Wendy, and Melody have been trapped in. It's been eight hours they've been in there for.* "It's been eight hours, doods. I hope Ford comes and rescues us." said Soos. "At this point, I don't know what to do." said Melody annoyed. "Guys, whatever happens. We must stay together." said Wendy. *Scene cuts to russian scientists working on expanding the gate to the Nightmare Realm.*