~~~~~~~~~Your POV~~~~~~~~~

Up in the attic, Mason had pulled up a board to theorized while I sat on his bed for moral support, seeing him chew on his pen, "Alright, author, who are you? Who.. are you..."

"Make sure not to bite too hard, or you'll-" The pen broke in his mouth before I finished my sentence, "And there it is."

He spat out the ink and wiped the rest off, throwing the broken pen into a bin with others, "Add that one to the pile."

That's when Mabel ran inside with an excited shriek, falling on the bed beside me, "Hey, guys!! Look what I got~!"

Mason smiled awkwardly, "Yay, a filthy green bottle."

"Uh oh, she went dumpster diving again," I pointed out.

But she quickly explained herself, sitting up, "It's a bottle message from Mermando, remember?! He was part fish and part shirtless guy," she gasped, "What if he wants to get back together?!"

Mason was more cautious, "I wouldn't get your hopes up, Mabel."

"Too late, hopes are way way up!!" She pulled a note out of the bottle and started to read, "Dear Mabel, so far so good! It is with a heavy heart, so far so good! That I must inform you, I'm getting married?!"

I cringed a bit, "There it is.."

"In order to prevent an undersea civil war- arranged wedding- Queen of the manatees?!" Mabel pulled out a photo of Mermando and the Manatee Queen, caressing it, "And she's so beautiful!! This can't be happening!!"

She buried her face in her hands, and I placed a hand on her shoulder for comfort, "I'm so sorry, Mabel.."

"Hey, I'm sure you'll get over it eventually!" Mason added.

"You don't understand, guys!" Mabel took out her scrap book, opening it up, "On my first day here, I made this page for summer romances, and look at my luck! Turned out to be gnomes, child psycho, made out if his own hands, and now," she added the new picture to a new page, "Even you two have had a way better love life than me! I wish I could just forget about them forever.."

This made Mason and I share a worried glance, and he then looked back at his sister, "Hey, if it's any consolation, my summer mission isn't a huge success either. I'm still trying to find the author of this journal, but with this laptop smashed, we've lost any lead in finding them!"

"Still apologize for that...."

"I forgave you for it forever ago," he placed a kiss on my cheek, "I probably would've done the same given that choice."

"Wait a minute!!" Mabel had looked through the bottle at the computer, her expression shocked as she offered us the bottle, "Guys, look!!"

Mason grabbed it first, letting out a gasp as he looked at the corner of the computer, than handing it to me to do the same, noticing the signature that Mason spoke out loud, "McGucket Labs? Wait, Old Man McGucket?!"

I looked up at him in shock, "You don't think he's.."

"It couldn't be.. It doesn't make any sense! Unless..." He grabbed the photo of McGucket and moved it somewhere else on the board, moving around the red string and changing the words that had been written, all while muttering a theory. Once he was done and his mind was on the right track, he took a step back to inspect his work, eyes wide, "So then that would mean... Old Man McGucket wrote the journal?!"

I quickly stood up, "We gotta check this out, now!"

Without missing a beat, the three of us ran downstairs, finding Soos and Wendy down in the gift shop listening to a song about eating your own pants or something along those lines.

Mason looked at the two, "Wendy, Soos, we need to go see Old Man McGucket!!"

"We'll explain on the way!!" Mabel added, and we all ran outside to Stan's car.

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Just ten minutes later, we reached the junkyard, leaving the car and walk inside.

Mason was the first to call out, "Old Man McGucket, are you here?!"

"Here, hillbilly billy billy billy!!" Soos yelled after.

"Ugh, these two," I let out, seeing Wendy's friends Lee and Nate spray painting something on the side of McGucket's wall. 

Lee laughed as he finished, "Took an hour to think of this, but it was worth it!" Then the two high fived.

That's when McGucket walked out and saw the two, who ran away laughing as the old man yelled, "Get outta here, you salt lickin', hornswagglin'!!" He then turned to the graffiti, his posture drooping, "Mc Suck It, they got me good..."

I gently cleared my throat as we approached, and he perked up with a smile, "Visitors!!" Without hesitation, he waved for as to follow as he walked into his home, "Come, come, pull up some rusty medal!! You're just in time for my hourly turf war with the hillbilly what lives in ma mirror," he said before looking at his reflection, "Quit staring at me when I bathe!!"

Mason glared at him, holding out his journal, "You can drop the act, McGucket, I know you're the author! You studied the mysteries of this town and wrote this book!"

"You're the genius Maze has been looking for all summer," I added, Wendy taking out the broken laptop as an example.

"Eh, genius?" McGucket drooped in posture again, "I'm no genius, I've never done nothing worth while in my life! Everyone knows I'm no good to nobody.. I can't remember what I use to be, but I must've been a big failure to end up like this.."

Soos pointed at the laptop, "But the laptop has your name on it!"

"What about this book?! Are you sure you didn't write it?! Here, look closely!" Mason walked closer to him, starting to rapidly flip through the pages.

"I told you I don't recall. Everything after before 1982 is all a blur. Just a hazy..." All of a sudden, he began to scream in terror, backing away and crashing into the wall, "THE BLIND EYE!! I- robes, the men, my mind, they did something!!"

Mason quickly looked at the page he had landed on while I tried to ask for more info, "Who did?! What happened?!"

"I-" McGucket stared, trying to get his throats in order, then looked down, "Oh, I don't recall..!"

"Oh, you poor old man..! No wonder your mind's all," Mabel blew a raspberry, looking at the old man with worry, "You've been through something intense..!"

Mason's mind, meanwhile, was racing with possible causes and effects, "What if McGucket learned something he wasn't supposed to know and someone, or something, messed with his mind? We've got to get to the bottom of this!"

I looked back at McGucket, "Think, what is the earliest thing you can remember?"

"Uh," he picked up a flyer from the wall, "this is, I think."

"The history museum!" Wendy pointed out.

"Then that's where we're going," Mason nodded.

We all, McGucket included, got back into the car, and as soon as it was turned on, it started..

"I'm blanchin', girl, we blanchin',
"I live up in a mansion."

"Ugh, Soos!!" Wendy yelled, removing the music disk from the car's station and through it out the window. We all stared in shock, Soos slightly mad, which Wendy quickly sensed by tensing up. "... I'll buy you a new one."

Once at the museum, we sneaked in through the window, with Soos calling out once more, "Hello, anyone here?!"

Mason looked at the group, "Alright, keep your eyes pilled for anything suspicious.

But Mabel wasn't with us, not mentally, letting out a sigh that I quickly picked up, "Mabel, are you okay..?"

Wendy walked over to join us, "Yeah, you just walked by a cat without petting it."

"Oh guys, everything I look reminds me of my failed romances! That formaldehyde heart, that romantic diorama, even this poster of my most resent ex-crush!" Mabel walked to the wall, yanking out a flyer of Gabe Benson, only for a flyer of Sev'ral Timez to be underneath, "Ah c'mon!!"

I was thinking of some comforting words, when Mason spoke from his own world, "So your last memory was here. Anything coming back?"

"Guys, look!!" We all turned at Soos's voice, seeing him pointing at a cloaked figure in the distance, which quickly ran away.

Immediately, we all gave chase, and after a while, ended up in a room that was covered in eyeballs; drawn eyeballs, sculpted eyeballs, living eyeballs, all looking in different directions.

McGucket looked around, "Well, kettle my corn! He vanishified!"

I couldn't help but shudder, feeling unnerved, "Anyone else feeling uneasy in here?"

Mason was just trying to make sense of it, "It doesn't make sense! Where did he go?!"

"Eh, I feel like all these eyeballs are a-watching me," we heard McGucket say as he stood in the middle of the room, looking around in a panic.

It's thanks to that though that Mason looked around, his eyes widening, "Wait, they are! Move aside!"

The old man did as told, and there was one painted red eyeball with an X crossing it out right where he was standing, all the other eyeballs looking at that one. It seemed to be on a piece of stone that stood out from the wall, and Mason, with zero fear in his eyes, pressed it back. Luckily for us, there was no booby trap, and a secret door opened up where the fireplace used to be.

Wendy smiled over, "Jackpot!!"

"A secret passageways!" Mason said, clearly proud of his work.

"We all have to be stealthy! I'll hambone a message if there's trouble!" McGucket turned to us, hamboning a message that none of us got.

Mason stared for a while, then shrugged, "I have no idea what that means."

Then we all proceeded to go down the new hallway. I had instinctively grabbed Mason's hand, though whether it was out of my own fear or wanting to protect him, I was unsure of. In the end was an opened doorway that led to a big, dark room, all of us peeking inside.

There was a group of people, all in red robes that covered their faces surrounding a chest while chanting, all very cult-y. There was also a long seat in the middle of the room, empty for now, when a new figure stepped in from the darkness, "Who is the subject of our meeting?"

Two other figures dragged someone in normal attire, but a bag over their head and forced them onto the seat, "This woman."

One of the people that dragged in the person removed the bag, revealing a nervous Lazy Susan, making us all gasp.

"Lazy Susan?" I heard Mabel whisper.

They tied her to the chair, and the new figure walked over to her, "What is it that you have seen?"

"Speak," the others all said in unison.

She looked around in a panic, "Uh- well, uh- yeah, I was leaving the diner and I see these- these little bearded doodads and I was like, wha?!"

"There there," the new figure said, who I assumed was the leader, pulling out a steampunk-looking pistol from the chest, "You won't be like Wha? for much longer."

The people around all tightened their robes' hoods, with Lazy Susan looking over confused, "What is that gizmo? It looks like a hair dryer! Are you guys barbers?"

The leader typed something into the pistol, and I grew cold with fear as they shot a blue ray straight at her face. I had to cover my ears as I heard her scream, then she stopped and stared forward blankly.

"Lazy Susan," the leader asked, "what do you know of little bearded men?"

"My mind is clear, thanks to the Society of the Blind Eye," Lazy Susan replied in a robotic tone.

The others then raised their hands and chanted, "It is unseen!!"

"Oh my gosh," Mason whispered with a shocked expression, "they erased Lazy Susan's memory!!"

McGucket hamboned something else, which I could only assume was a swear of some sort as the cult untied Lazy Susan.

I tightened my grip on Mason's hand, "I can't believe they just wiped her memory, just like that!"

Sold chuckled, "They should've wiped off that awful mascara!"

"I think she looks beautiful!!"

"She's doing the best she can, Soos!!" Both Mabel and Wendy shot back, glaring up at him.

Soos had flinched back, "Whoa, touched a nerve there..!"

I quickly shushed them as the leader walked back to Lazy Susan, "Lazy Susan, how do you feel?"

"I feel great!!" Two other members started to lead her out as she continued, "I can't even remember what was wrong!! Or what I'm going here!! Or if I'm a man or a woman!!"

"Oh, your memories will be safe with us," he said as he removed a small capsule from the pistol, writing (Lazy) Susan Wentworth with Sharpee, "In the Hall of The Forgotten."

"Into the hall of the forgotten!! Into the hall of the forgotten!!"

"Great chanting, boys," the leader complimented as he offered the capsule to a tube, which sucked the capsule in and away, "Have you been practicing? Meeting adjourned."

They all began to leave, "Unsee you later" being their words of goodbye, but even when they were all gone, we were all still nervous about what we had witnessed. Still, we rushed into the room, heading to the chest.

I was still wrapping my head around things, muttering to myself, "A secret society of mind erasers..!"

"I bet they erased your memory a long time ago!" Mason looked at McGucket, "If we could find where your memories have been hidden, it could be the key to unlocking all the mysteries of Gravity Falls! Alright, Mabel, (y/n), Wendy, you two stay here and make sure those robe guys don't come back. The rest of us will go look for the Hall of the Forgotten."

I looked over, slightly concerned, "Are you sure? M-maybe it's best if I-"

"You're physically the strongest one here, better chance of you fighting off anyone that comes back."

I guess that made sense, though Soos and Wendy seemed confused about me being the strongest when Soos was around. Perks of the supernatural.

I let out a sigh, "Promise me you'll stay safe..?"

"Oh c'mon, you know me! I'm always caref-" and he walked into the wall, flinching back as he held his nose, "You didn't see that."

Holding a laugh, I lightly ruffled his hat, "Just come back in one piece."

"That I can do!"

"But how will we find the secret Hall thingy?" Soos asked as he walked over, then let out a small yell as his hat was suddenly sucked into one of the tubes.

"Follow that hat!!" Mason yelled, and they left running.

We spent the next ten minutes sitting around in silence; my head was filled with the worries of what could possibly happen to the others, to Mason, running through hallways he's never seen before after a mysterious figure that's part of a memory wiping cult. Mabel was also in a bad mood because of the 'Lack of Romance in Summer' thing, while Wendy was just relaxing in the silence.

Mabel soon broke the silence with a sigh, "I just don't get it, guys.. I hug a lot, I can burp the alphabet, I have scratchy stuff clothing, why does every boy leave me..?!"

"Psh, who cares? Boys are the worst," she was about to say more when she paused and turned to me, "No offense."

I shrugged, "None taken."

Mabel continued to play with her hair in thought, "Maybe I come on to strong, you know..?"

"Well, what's your opener?" Wendy then grabbed me by my shoulders and dragged me in front of Mabel, "Look, here's a guy, flirt with him!"

After blinking a few times, Mabel raised an eyebrow at Wendy, "But that's my brother's boyfriend."

"It's just for practice," Wendy replied, "Nothing serious."

She seemed more fine with that, and granted, it's not like any line she said would make me switch sides, so I gave me a smile, "Just pretend like you're meeting me for the first time."

Nodding to herself, Mabel inhaled deeply, then yelled, "HI, IM MABEL!! IM TWELVE AND OWN A PIG!! WANNA GET MARRIED?!"

It took me a few seconds to form a sentence. I knew Mabel was forward but man! A marriage proposal on our first meeting?!

Wendy had a different reaction, laughing the situation, "Honestly, that was perfect!"

"I.... wouldn't say perfect. Maybe replace the marriage part with something slower paced, like a date!"

She let out a sad sigh, sitting back down, "I'm hopeless.."

And I felt bad again, me and my big mouth. I pat her head, trying to comfort her, "Mabel, maybe you should just forget about guys. You're still really young, you have time to-"

"(y/n), that's it!!" She perked up with a bright smile, running over to the memory gun, "Forget about guys!! I just need to type summer romances into this thing and I won't feel bad about them anymore!"

"That's not what I meant," I said as I walked over, feeling nervous about what I had started in her mind.

Wendy was thankfully on my side for this one, "Yeah, we don't even know what that thing does! You could accidentally like learning to read, or breathe, or-!"

"Or one of those terrible summer songs you can't get out of your head~?" Mabel smirked at Wendy, who seemed to consider the option for a moment.

This is not gonna go well..

~~~~~~~~~Dipper's POV~~~~~~~~~

"Whoa," Soos's eyes widened as we walked into the Hall of the Forgotten, seeing all the tubes and capsules around us, "look at all these tubes..! People must've been getting their memories erased all over town!"

"Look at this!" I picked up a capsule from a pile nearby, showing it to the others as Tyler's name was shown written in permanent marker.

Curiosity got the better of us, and Soos placed the capsule into a small computer-like machine, which immediately showed Tyler, Lorelei's brother, sitting on the chair Lazy Susan was on earlier. He was grumpy, so the usual, as the leader's voice spoke from off camera, "Yes, Tyler, what is it that you have seen?"

"Basically, I was attacked by this magic kung fu guy that was throwing, like, balls of fire at me! I kicked his butt though."

"Tyler, speak honestly."

Tyler glared at the floor in anger, "I was saved by a 12-year-old.."

While part of me wanted to laugh at that, bigger things had captured my attention, many questions invading my mind. "Why are they erasing peoples' memories? I still don't get it!"

Then another capsule grabbed my eye, this time making a cold rush go down my spine; the capsule had (y/n)'s name. I picked it up with upmost care, passing my thumb over the name. It seemed old, not dusty and broken like some of the older ones here, but old enough for the words to be a little washed off.

Soos peeked from over me, "Hey, movie night! Let's find out more about (y/n), dude!"

"No, I.." Biting my lip, I stuffed the capsule into one of my vest pockets, "I think this is something (y/n) should judge on first."

"Looky, fellers!" We turned to McGucket, seeing him pointing at an older capsule with his name on it, "It's those words what people call me!"

"Oh, dude, your memories! We did it!" Soos cheered.

"Grabby, grabby!!" He took it with ease, but an alarm started going off immediately after he did, sending us all into a panic.

~~~~~~~~~Your POV~~~~~~~~~

"I really don't think this is a good idea, Mabel," I said with worry as she typed 'Summer Romances' into the memory gun.

She smiled brightly in response, "ALL IDEAS ARE GOOD IDEAS!"

I had to bite the edge of my thumb to stop myself from stopping her, when an alarm started ringing from the halls. Wendy raised an eyebrow as she heard it, "Hey, do you hear that?"

That's when a new scent invaded my nose, and I tried to react fast as I turned, "WENDY, BEHIND-"

And everything went black when a painful force hit the side of my head. I'm not sure how long I was asleep for in the first place, but when I came to, our group was all tied up against a pillar. The only one missing was McGucket, but the robed people were all around us chanting something under their breaths. I tried to struggle, I knew I was capable of breaking the cheap rope that trapped us, by my head was too fuzzy from the hit to concentrate.

The one we assumed to be the leader stepped forward holding the memory ray, "You shouldn't have come here. We do not give up our secrets lightly."

"Who are you bathrobe wearing freaks?!" Wendy yelled.

Mason yelled next, "Why are you doing this?!"

"And what's with your creepy British accent?!" Mabel added a much needed comment.

The leader shrugged before looking back at his cult members, "Well, I suppose we are going to erase your minds anyway." And one by one, the members all began to take their hoods off to show their faces.

"Toby Determined?!"

"Bud Gleeful?!"

"That farmer guy?!"

"Creepy dude who married a woodpecker?! You too?!" Soos raised an eyebrow, "How's that marriage going, by the way?"

"Oh great, great!" He leaned over to Soos and whispered with an expression that screamed Get me out, "Not great..!"

"And you've never met before. And if you had, you wouldn't remember!" The leader took off his hood, revealing a bald man with grayish skin, one red eye, and tattoos all over his skull. "I am Blind Ivan, and we are the Society of The Blind Eye! Formed many years ago by our founder- ... our founder.. does anyone remember who he was?"

When no one knew how to reply, Bud gave us a sheepish smile, "We've been using that ray on our own brains an awful lot!"

"But.." I tried to speak through my headache, "But why would you do all this..?"

"Yeah, what do you have to gain?!" Mason finished for me.

"As you have no doubt discovered, Gravity Falls is a plague with supernatural strangeness. No one knew how to stop the things that went bump in the night. So our founder invented our next best thing: a way for us to forget. We took it upon ourselves to help the troubled townsfolk by erasing the memories of the strange things they've seen. Now the people of Gravity Falls go about their lives ignorant and happy, thanks to us. And as a perk, we help ourselves forget thins that trouble us. Everyone has something they'd rather forget." That's when he smiled at Mabel, "In fact, your own sister was about to use that ray on herself! Isn't that right?"

Mason looked at his sister in a panic, "Mabel?! Seriously?!"

She chuckled awkwardly, "Maybe..?"

He gave her an We'll deal with this later look, then glared at Ivan, "Don't you see?! This is ruining lives!! What about Old Man McGucket?! He lives in a hut and talks to animals thanks to you!! Don't you feel bad about that?!"

"Mmm, maybe a little.." He raised the memory ray, zapping himself before smirking, "But not anymore. You won't be telling anyone else about what you've learned here. Say goodbye to your summer!"

When the was pointed at us, Soos was the first who began to panic, "Okay, guys, if we're gonna forget everything I got some stuff I want to get off my chest! Mabel, for half the summer I thought your name was Maple, like the syrup! No one corrected me!!"

Mabel looked around in a panic, "I only love some of my stuffed animals and the guilt is killing me!!"

Mason tried to struggle, "Sometimes I use big words and I don't actually know what they mean! I mean I'm supposed to be the smart guy!! If I'm not the smart guy, who am I?!"

Wendy looked over with anxiety, "Okay, I'm not actually laid back! I'm stressed like 24/7!! Have you met my family?!"

I'm not sure if it was the dizziness I had or if everyone's truth bombs got to me, but without a second thought, I finally blurted it out, "I'm actually a monstrous beast who ate a person two years ago!!" Everyone's attention instantly landed on me with an expression of pure fear, only Mason looked at me in worry; before I knew it, the memory gun was pointed right to my face.

"Oh, stop being a bunch of babies." A smirk grew on Ivan's face, "Say goodbye to what you know~"

I heard Mason scream as he tried to break free while I shut my eyes out of instinct, when I suddenly heard Ivan react in pain, "Owy!!"

"McGucket!!" We all cheered as he ran into the room dragging a wagon behind, cutting us free.

"I raided the mining display for weapons!! Now fight like a hillbilly, fellers!!"

Wendy was the first to run over, getting a banjo, and Mason getting a stick with a raccoon at the end of it. Soos picked up a diagram of dysentery, and even he was shocked, "Oh, nobody better mess!"

Mason had to come back and help me stand as I held my head would, "You stay here, we'll take care of it."

"I- I'm fine, Maze, I can handle it!" I tried to walk forward, wobbling instead as nausea took over.

Instead, he grabbed my shoulders and forced me to sit back down, startling me with the sudden force. "You always do everything to keep me safe, let me do this for you..!" Then he kissed my cheek and ran to fight. I could feel my face burning up, but as much as I wanted to fight alongside them, I knew I wouldn't be much help in this state, so i let my head rest back and rested.

A scowl had formed on Ivan's face, yelling at his cult members, "They know to much! Don't let them escape!!"

They began to ran over, ready for a fight. Wendy was the first to attack, swinging her banjo at two as she yelled, "Get this song out of your head!!"

"This is gonna get you, dawg!!" Soos ran after anyone that got near him just showing off the diagram.

I noticed Mason looking around in a panic, then gasping as he found one of the memory capsules on the floor, "McGucket's memory tube!"

"Oh no you don't!!" Tats from the bar began to ran at Mason at full speed. I reacted immediately, my instinct overtaking my dizziness as I leaped across the room and tackled the man three times my size down. As a result, I only ended up feeling worse.

Mason managed to grab the capsule, yelling at me in both anger and worry, "I told you to rest!!"

"Just keep the capsule safe!!" I yelled back.

Another member that was still covering his face ran at Mason again, so he turned to his sister who was quite far away and yelled for her to catch as he through it across.!

Instead though, Sprott the farmer guy caught it, proudly raising it, "I'll take that, thank you!" He began to run away as Soon got closer, "Give it up, boy! You're not match for the unstoppable power of-!!"

Just in time, Mabel turned to traveling tubes on, making his robe get caught in it and get removed, leaving him in only his underwear, which was.. a sight I really did not want. Maybe I'm so dizzy I won't remember it. "That's right, I don't wear nothing under my robe! Not gonna apologize for that! Maybe y'all should apologize for being a bunch of prudes!"

"Eww!!"

Soos pointed the memory ray at his head, "Well, time to erase that forever!"

Ivan reacted immediately, pushing Soos to the side and grabbing a hold of the ray, "Give me that tube!!"

"Never!!" Mason yelled as he threw it into one of the traveling tubes, the two chasing after it as fast as they could. But Ivan played dirty and forced Mason to trip, getting to it first, instantly pointing the ray at him as a wide smirk spread on his face.

"End of the line! By tomorrow, this will all seem like a bad dream!"

"MASON!!" I tried to run over, only to be grabbed by several other cult members via each limb, still able to move, but agonizingly slow as I watched the scene unfold, as I watched the panic grow on Mason's face.

"Say goodbye to your precious memories!!"

"NO!!" He tried to cover his face as the ray's trigger was hit, but we were all shocked as a new character stepped in and took the shot for him. Even Mason, terrified to look up, had to as he didn't feel anything different his eyes widening at the sight.

There he was, Old Man McGucket, standing unblinkingly in front of Mason after being hit with the memory gun, unreactive. "M.. McGucket," Mason tried to speak through the shock, "You took a bullet for me..!" He was instantly shot again, sending us into more panic, "Oh my gosh, are you okay?!"

"Okay as I'll ever be!!" McGucket laughed and walked over to Ivan, all of us very confused.

"What?!"

"Why- Isn't- This- Working?!" Ivan asked through ever new shot, but McGucket never stopped walking, never stopped smiling.

"Hit me with your best shot, baldie!! But my mind's been gone for thirty odd years!! You can't break what's already broken!!" The fear was hard to miss on Ivan's face as McGucket slapped the ray off his hands and grabbed him by the shoulders, said, "Say good night, sally!!" and head butted the lights out of Ivan.

We worked quickly, making sure every single cult member was tied up the same way we were just a few minutes ago, all of them struggling.

"Unhand us!!" Ivan ordered, clearly angry about how the situation ended up.

"Isn't so fun being tied up, is it?!" Mabel turned to us with a permanent marker and a smile, "Hey, wanna draw on their faces?!"

"What?!"

"Lalala!!" Mabel sang as she scratched out the Knowledge tattoo and wrote Butts over it instead, all of us laughing.

Ivan was having none of it, "That's not funny!!"

Mason ended his laugh with a chuckle, "It's a little funny!"

"It's objectively funny!" Soos added.

But Ivan had a deadly glare on his face, "We'll have our revenge, we'll never forget what you've done!!"

As I leaned against Mason's shoulders I peeked down as he typed something into the memory ray, "Oh, I think you just might."

Mason then pointed the ray at the group, "Say Cheese~!"

It didn't matter how much they struggled the ray worked wonders, curtesy of their own works.

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"Thanks for visiting the museum for Gold Miner Appreciation Night," Mason waved goodbye as the cult members, not knowing they are or ever were cult members, walked out of the museum with blissful smiles on their faces.

I stood beside him waving as well, "Be sure to tip the gold miner on your way out!"

Ivan was the last to walk out, though he seemed a bit confused, "I'm sorry, but.. what's my name? Where am I..?"

We instantly turned pale as that, Mason looking at me with a bit of anxiety, "Oh, might've overdone that one.."

Mabel quickly stepped in, "Your name is Toot-toot McBumbersnazzle!!" He handed him a brand new banjo, "You're a traveling banjo minstrel with a song in your heart and funny tattoos on your head!!"

He seemed to like that, smiling at the thought, "Yes, I am Toot-toot McBumbersnazzle! Cheers!" Then he left as he played the banjo and sang along.

After that, we all headed back to the room that had the monitor, where we had watched Robbie's memories. Mason glanced over, "Alright, McGucket, are you ready to see your memories? To find out who you really are?"

"I.. I'm not so sure, what if I don't like what I see..?"

Mabel gave him a warm smile, "We've come all this way, go on!"

It took him a lot of courage to place the capsule on the monitor, but in just a few seconds, we were introduced to a familiar face. He was younger, much younger, with brown hair and a lab coat.

"My name is Fiddleford Hadron McGucket and I wish to unsee what I have seen."

We all gasped at the sight, McGucket stepping closer, "Sweet sarsaparilla..!"

"For the past year I have been working as assistant for a visiting researcher. He has been cataloging his findings about Gravity Falls in a series of journals. I helped him build a machine which he believed had the potential to benefit all mankind, but something went wrong! I decided to quit the project, but I lay awake at night haunted by the thoughts of what I've done. I believe I have invented a machine that can permanently erase these memories from my mind. Test subject one: Fiddleford."

"It worked! I can't recall a thing!!"

"I call it the Society of The Blind Eye! We will help those who want to forget by erasing their bad memories!"

"Today I came across a colony of little men, very disturbing! I would like to forget seeing this."

"I accidentally hit another car in town today!! I feel terribible!! T-t-terrible! I've been forgetting words lately, I wonder if there are any negative side effects side effects."

"I saw something in the lake, something big!!"

"My hair's been falling out so I got this hat from a scarecrow!! Hey, are my pants on backwards?!"

The last clip we saw was of present day McGucket laughing in histeria as he spoke complete gibberish, but ending it with a suspicious triangle symbol over his eye before the screen went to black.

We stayed in silence for a while, unsure of how to respond. It was Mabel who broke the ice, looking at McGucket with sadness, "Oh McGucket, I'm so sorry.."

But he had a genuine smile on as he took the capsule back, "Aw, hush.. You kids help me get my memories back just like you said!"

"But... did you want those memories back..?"

"After all these years, I finally know who I am! Maybe I messed up in the past, but now that I've seen what happens I can finally put myself together again!" He placed the capsule in his beard, then hamboned one more message to us with a smile.

Mason had a smile on too, though also a little confused, "Still don't know what that means." Then he grew more serious at a thought, "So wait, you weren't the author but you worked with him! Do you remember who he was?"

"It's beginning to come back, but I need more time. And readin' glasses, heck!" He took some glasses from the shelf and put them on; one of the lenses fell off, but he didn't seem to mind as he spit in a nearby bucket, "I got some remembering to do!!"

Wendy chuckled a bit, then turned to Mabel, "So, Mabel, do you still want to erase those failed summer romances?"

Glancing at McGucket, she smiled, "You know, no one likes having bad memories, but maybe it's better to remember the bad things and learn from them than to go all de-nile crazy trying to forget."

"That's some mature junk right there, Mabel."

"Yep, Miss Mature," she exclaimed proudly, then pulled out a poster of Gabe Benson, "Hey, you wanna help me vandalize this picture of my jerky ex-crush?"

"Speaking of remembering, anyone else remember that crazy truth bomb (y/n) revealed earlier?" He chuckled at that, but I froze up as my blood ran cold.

It made Wendy and Mabel look at me with concern, but Mason quickly grabbed my hand for comfort, "It's okay if you don't wanna tell them.."

"No, it's- it's okay.." Taking in a deep breath, I turned to the group, "It's true, I'm not completely human. During full moons, I'm at risk of becoming a beast, and two years ago, I was unable to stop it, resulting in some.. u-unforgivable acts. I've been like this for as long as I can remember, and I'm sorry for lying to you all.."

"So.. you're a WEREWOLF?! Mabel gasped and tackled me in a hug, "That's the coolest thing I've ever heard!!"

I had to take a moment to understand what was going on, and the head injury didn't exactly help, but I couldn't help but laugh as Mason helped me onto my feet, "Well, I'm not sure if werewolf's the right term since the pictures on the newspaper didn't look like a wolf. Plus, I've never actually been conscious for it, so even I don't know what I look like."

"Actually, about that.." Mason then pulled out a small capsule from his vest, my eyes widening as I saw my name written on it, "I found this earlier, figured you'd want to check it out.."

I stared at it for a while, then took it in my hands. Never had I considered to have memories I had forgotten; memories of what? When?

Mason then placed a hand over mind, "If you want, we can leave.."

Staring back at him, I thought for a while, then nodded, "I think I'd rather watch it on my own, process it.."

"Okay.." He pressed a kiss to my cheek, then gestured for everyone to follow as he left.

I could feel my heartbeat growing quicker and louder as I stepped closer to the monitor, placing the capsule so the video would start to play.

And.. what I saw was...

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