Your POV

Dipper and I were in our room. He had pulled up a cardboard chart where he would try and decipher who was the author of the journal. I was there to help.

Dipper: Alright, author. *starts to chew on the pen* Who are you...? Who... are... you...?

You: Careful, you're gonna end up-

Dipper: *breaks the pen making the ink spread all over his mouth, making him spit and wipe it off*

You: ...never mind.

Dipper: *throws away the pen*

Mabel: *enters and plops down on Dipper's bed* Hey, guys!!! Look what I got~!!!

Dipper: Yay, a filthy green bottle.

You: You finally took on recycling!

Mabel: It's a bottle message from Mermando, remember?!? He was part fish and part shirtless guy- *gasp* What if he wants to get back together?!?

You: I wouldn't get your hopes up, M.

Mabel: Too late, hopes are way way up!!! *takes out the message and starts 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?!?!?!?!?"

Dipper: And there it is.

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

You: Oh Mabel...

Dipper: You'll get over him eventually...?

Mabel: You don't understand, guys. *takes her scrapbook and opens it on a certain page* 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... *places the picture, then writes failed at the top* I wish I could just forget about them forever...

Dipper: 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!

Mabel: *looking at the computer through the bottle* Wait a minute...
(y/n)!!!

You: What?

Mabel: *hands you the bottle and points at the computer*

You: *see the name McGucket Labs* What?!?

Dipper: What, let me see!!!

You: *give him the bottle*

Dipper: *looks at the computer through the bottle* McGucket Labs? Wait, Old Man McGucket?!?

You: You don't think...-

Dipper: It couldn't be...!!! It doesn't make any sense!!! Unless... *takes the McGucket picture and places it somewhere else on the board, then moves the red string and tacs around until he comes to a conclusion* So then that would mean... Old Man McGucket wrote the journal?!?!?!?

You: We need to go check!

You, Dipper, and Mabel: *run down to the gift shop where Wendy and Soos were at*

Dipper: Wendy, Soos, we need to go see Old Man McGucket!!!

Mabel: We'll explain on the way!!!

You, Dipper, and Mabel: *run outside, Mabel dragging Wendy and Soos following behind*

We get in the car and reach the junk yard where he lived.

Dipper: Old Man McGucket, are you here?!?

You: Hello?!?

Soos: Here, hillbilly billy billy billy!!!

You, Dipper, Mabel, Wendy, and Soos: *see Nate and Lee spray painting the wall laughing*

Lee: Took an hour to think of this, but it was worth it!

Lee and Nate: *high five*

McGucket: *comes out* ...

Lee and Nate: *run away laughing*

McGucket: Get outta here, you salt lickin', hornswagglin'!!! *looks at the graffiti* Mc Suck It, they got me good... *sees you all* Visitors!!! *brings you all inside* 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!!! *to his reflection* Quit staring at me when I bathe!!!

Dipper: You can drop the act, McGucket, I know you're the author; you studies the mysteries of this town and wrote this book!

Wendy: Dude, you're the genius Dipper's been searching for all summer!!! *takes out the broken laptop and shows it to McGucket*

McGucket: Eh, genius? I'm not 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: But the laptop has your name on it!

Dipper: What about this book?!? Are you sure you didn't write it?!? Here, look closely!!! *starts to pass the pages*

McGucket: I told you I don't recall. Everything after before 1982 is all a blur. Just a hazy... *sees a page with a red x covering an eye* AHHH, AHHH, THE BLIND EYE!!! I-!!! *falls on his back* Robes, the men, my mind, they did something!!!!!

You: Who did?!?

McGucket: I-... Oh, I don't recall...!!!

Mabel: Oh, you poor old man...!!! No wonder your mind's all *blows raspberries* You've been through something intense...!

Dipper: 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!!!

You: Think, what is the earliest thing you can remember?

McGucket: Uh, *takes a flyer from the wall* this is, I think.

Wendy: The history museum!!!

Dipper: Then that's where we're going.

We drive to the museum, taking McGucket along with us. Along the way, some popular song (which was super annoying) was on. Wendy was so annoyed she threw Soos's disc out. It was hilarious. When we got to the museum, we sneaked in through the window.

Soos: Hello, anyone here?!?

Dipper: Alright, keep your eyes pilled for anything suspicious.

Mabel: *sigh*

Wendy: Mabel, are you ok?

You: Yeah, I mean you just walked by a cat without petting it.

Mabel: Oh girls, everything I look reminds me of my failed romances!!! That formaldehyde heart, that romantic diorama, even this poster of my most resent ex-crush! *yanks out the poster of Gabe Benson revealing a poster of Sev'ral Timez* Aw, c'mon!!!

Dipper: So your last memory was here. Anything coming back?

Soos: Guys, look!!! *points at a mysterious cloaked figure which starts to run away*

You, Dipper, Mabel, Wendy, Soos, and McGucket: *follow the cloaked figure into a mysterious room filled with eyeballs*

McGucket: Well, kettle my corn, he vanishified!!!

You: Yeesh, this room's creepy...!

Dipper: It doesn't make sense! Where did he go...?!?

McGucket: Eh, I feel like all these eyeballs are a-watching me!

Dipper: Wait!!! *looks at the eyeballs, then at McGucket* There are!!! Move aside!!!

McGucket: *moves to the side showing a stone eye drawing on the wall*

Dipper: *presses the stone as if it were a button which causes the fireplace to open a secret passageway*

Wendy: Jackpot!!!

You: Cool!!!

Dipper: A secret passageways!!!

McGucket: We all have to be stealthy, I'll hambone a message if there's trouble!!! *hambones*

Dipper: I have no idea what that means.

We go down the passageway and hide behind some curtains. We see a group of people, all disguised in red robes surrounding a chest and chanting something. A new person, also in a red robe, came in.

Person 1: Who is the subject of our meeting?

Two People: *bring someone with a bag over her head, then force her to sit in a chair* This woman.

Person 2: *takes off the bag revealing Lazy Susan*

Mabel: *whispers* Lazy Susan?

Two People: *tie her to the chair*

Person 1: What is it that you have seen?

People: Speak!

Lazy Susan: Uh, well, uh, yeah, I was leaving the diner and I see these- these little bearded doodads and I was like: Wha?!?

Person 1: There there. *takes out some sort of pistol from the chest* You won't be like "Wha?" for much longer.

People: *tighten their hoods*

Lazy Susan: What is that gizmo?!? It looks like a hair dryer!!! Are you guys barbers?

Person 1: *types something into the pistol then shoots blue light at Lazy Susan*

Lazy Susan: AHHHHH!!! ...

Person 1: Lazy Susan, what do you know of little bearded men?

Lazy Susan: *with a robot like voice* My mind is clear thanks to the Society of the Blind Eye.

People: It is unseen!!!

You: *whisper* What in the word?!?

Dipper: *whispers* Oh my gosh, they erased Lazy Susan's memory!!!

McGucket: *pats three times*

Two People: *untie Lazy Susan*

Dipper: *whispers* Guys, are you seeing this? They just wiped Lazy Susan's memory!!!

Soos: *chuckles* They should've wiped off that awful mascara! *laughs*

Mabel: I think she looks beautiful!!!

Wendy: She's doing the best she can, Soos!!!

Soos: Whoa!!! Touched a nerve there!!!

You: *whisper* Shh, guys!!!

Person 1: Lazy Susan, how do you feel?

Lazy Susan: *stands up* I feel great!!! I can't even remember what was wrong!!! Or what I'm going here!!! Or if I'm a man or a woman!!!

Two People: *take Lazy Susan away*

Person 1: Oh, your memories will be safe with us. *takes out a tube from the pistol, then writes (Lazy) Susan Wentworth* In the Hall of The Forgotten.

People: Into the hall of the forgotten!!! Into the hall of the forgotten!!!

Person 1: *puts the tube inside another tube which sends it to another room* Great chanting, boys, have you been practicing? *goes to the center* Meeting adjourned.

They all left, letting us come out of our hiding spot. I looked at the pistol thing, for some reason it had a familiar aura. I picked it up, looking at it from all angles. I knew I had seen this before, but where? ...and why...?

Dipper: Amazing, a secret society of mind erasers! I bet they erased your memory a long time ago! 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 three stay here and make sure those robe guys don't come back.

Wendy: Woo, girls club!!!

Dipper: Soos, you, me, and McGucket will go find the Hall of the Forgotten.

I was ok staying with Wendy and Mabel here, but something told me to go with the boys. I don't know why, I just had to.

You: Wait, Dip.

Dipper: Yeah?

You: Is it ok if I go with you guys? I-I'm actually really curious about this society thing.

Dipper: Well, ok then.

Soos: *gets his hat sucked into the tubes*

Dipper: Follow that hat!!!

We follow the hat, almost getting caught in the way. We make it to a room filled with the tubes. They all had the names of many people. Some were familiar, others weren't.

McGucket: Honey fogelin' saltlickin' skullduggery!!!

Soos: *laughs* Oh man, you have got to teach me some of those old man swear words!

Dipper: C'mon, we have to look for McGucket's memories.

We start looking. There were so many memory tubes so we were stuck for a while. As I searched I stumbled upon a tube. I read the name.

"(y/n) (l/n)"

I dropped it, shocked at the sight of my name on a memory tube. Was that why the memory gun felt familiar?!? Had my mind been erased before?!? I heard footsteps behind me, and I turned around in a cinch. Dipper was there, his face covered in confusion and worry. "Are you ok? You look a little pale!" I could only nod. There was a lump in my throat. I couldn't speak. As soon as he left I picked up the tube and hid it inside my hoodie.

Eventually we found McGucket's memories. We should've realized his was booby trapped... An eye appeared and looked at McGucket and an alarm started to pound. Dipper, Soos, and I started to run and lost track of McGucket. We hid behind some statues, but we were captured from behind and everything went black.

When I regained consciousness we were all wrapped against a pillar, tied with ropes. We had gotten surrounded by the people in robes. We tried to struggle, but the ropes were too tight. I checked my pockets. I don't know if I was relieved that my memory tube was still there.

Person 1: *takes McGucket's memories* You shouldn't have come here. We do not give up our secrets lightly.

Wendy: Who are you bathrobe wearing freaks?!?

Dipper: Why are you doing this?!?

Mabel: And what's with your creepy British accent?!?

Person 1: Well, I suppose we are going to erase your minds anyways.

People: *start to take off their hoods one by one*

Mabel: Toby Determined?!?

You: Bud Gleeful?!?

Wendy: That farmer guy?!?

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

Man: Oh great, great! *whispers to Soos* Not great!

Person 1: And you've never met before. And if you had you wouldn't remember! *takes off his hood*

The man was bald, he had a black eye and a red one, a big x scar in the red eye, and many tattoos with words.

Person 1: 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?

Everyone: ...

Bud: We've been using that ray on our own brains an awful lot!

You: But why would you do all this?!?

Dipper: What do you have to gain?!?

Blind Ivan: 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. In fact, your own sister was about to use that ray on herself! Isn't that right?

Dipper: Mabel?!? Seriously?!?

Mabel: *laughs awkwardly* Maybe...?

Dipper: 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?!?

Blind Ivan: Mmm, maybe a little. *zaps himself with the ray* But not anymore. You won't be telling anyone else about what you've learned here. Say goodbye to your summer.

Soos: Oh, 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: I only love some of my stuffed animals and the guilt is killing me!!!

Dipper: 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: Ok, I'm not actually laid back!!! I'm stressed like 24/7!!! Have you met my family?!?

They all look at me expectantly. I look at Dipper. What if I was really gonna forget everything?!? Would I forget Dipper?!? Would I forget my feelings for Dipper?!?

You: I-... I-I-...

Blind Ivan: *points the ray at you* Oh, stop being a bunch of babies. *gets hit on his hand making him drop the ray* Owy!!!

McGucket: *runs in*

You, Dipper, Mabel, Wendy, and Soos: McGucket!!!

McGucket: *cuts the rope letting you all loose* I raided the mining display for weapons!!! Now fight like a hillbilly, fellers!!!

Wendy: *picks a banjo*

Dipper: *picks up a stick with a raccoon*

You: *pick up the shovel and remember how you helped the twins on your first adventure* I missed this guy!

Soos: *picks up a board about dysentery* Oh, nobody better mess!!!

Blind Ivan: They know to much!!! Don't let them escape!!!

People: *charge at you all*

Wendy: Get this song out of your head!!! *hits two people with the banjo*

Soos: This is gonna get you, dawg! *runs after people*

You: *fight (like a badass) with the shovel*

Dipper: McGucket's memory tube!!!

Man: Oh no you don't!!! *prepares to punch Dipper*

Dipper: AH!!! *puts the memory tube into the traveling tubes*

Man: *is about to punch Dipper*

You: *hit the man's leg in the shovel knocking him over, the point it against the man's neck with a foot over his mouth* And stay down!!!

Dipper: Thanks, (y/n)!!!

You: Don't mention it!

Dipper: Mabel, catch!!!

Mabel: *reaches to grab the tube*

Farmer: *grabs the tube* I'll take that, thank you. *starts to run but stops when he sees Soos in front* Give it up, boy! You're not match for the unstoppable power of-!!!

Mabel: *turns the traveling tube to the man making his robe go into it revealing him in his underwear*

Farmer: Ah!!! 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!!!

You, Dipper, Mabel, and Wendy: Ew!!!

Soos: *points the ray at himself* Well, time to erase that forever!

Blind Ivan: *pushes Soos catching the ray* Give me that tube!!!

Dipper: Never!!!! *throws the memory tube up the traveling tube*

Dipper and Blind Ivan run following the memory tube. Ivan made Dipper trip and got to it first and as we all reach Dipper, Ivan was pointing the ray at him.

Blind Ivan: End of the line! By tomorrow this will all seem like a bad dream! Say goodbye to your precious memories!!! *shoots the ray*

Dipper: NO!!! *covers himself*

McGucket: *goes in front of Dipper and takes the shot*

Dipper: McGucket...!!! You took a bullet for me...!!!

Blind Ivan: *shoots McGucket again*

Dipper: Oh my gosh, are you ok?!?!?

McGucket: Ok as I'll ever be!!!! *laughs as he walks over to Blind Ivan*

Dipper: What?!?

Blind Ivan: Why- *shoots* Isn't- *shoots* This- *shoots* Working?!? *shoots*

McGucket: Hit me with your best shot, baldie!!! *gets shot* But my mind's been gone for thirty odd years!!! *gets shot* You can't break what's already broken!!! *slaps off the ray* Say good night, sally!!! *head buts Blind Ivan*

Dipper takes the ray and we all tie the members up just like they tied us.

Blind Ivan: Unhand us!!!

Mabel: Isn't so fun being tied up, is it?!? *pulls out a permanent marker* Hey, wanna draw on their faces?!?

Blind Ivan: What?!?

Mabel: Lalala!!! *covers up Knowledge and writes Butts as she laughs*

Blind Ivan: That's not funny!!!

You, Dipper, Mabel, Wendy, and Soos: *laugh*

Dipper: It's a little funny!

Soos: It's objectively funny!

Blind Ivan: We'll have our revenge, we'll never forget what you've done!!!

You: Oh, I think you just might~

Dipper: *points at the members with the ray* Say "cheese"~!!!

Members: *struggle as they separately say no*

Dipper: *shoots them*

~skip to when they're outside the museum~

People: *leave as they put money on McGucket's hat*

Dipper: Thanks for visiting the museum for Gold Miner Appreciation Night!!!

You: Be sure to tip the gold miner on your way out!!!

Blind Ivan: I'm sorry, but... what's my name? Where am I?

You: Uh...

Dipper: Oh, might've overdone that one...

Mabel: Your name is Toot-toot McBumbersnazzle!!! *gives him a banjo* You're a traveling banjo minstrel with a song in your heart and funny tattoos on your head!!!

Blind Ivan: Yes, I am Toot-toot McBumbersnazzle!!! Cheers!!! *leaves playing the banjo and singing*

We go downstairs to a computer where you could see the lost memories.

Dipper: Alright, McGucket, are you ready to see your memories? To find out who you really are?

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

Mabel: We've come all this way, go on!

McGucket: ... *walks over to the computer and places the memory tube in place making the monitor turn on showing a young man with short messy light brown hair and glasses*

(Btw I'm gonna refer to present McGucket and McGucket and past tv McGucket as Fiddleford)

Man: *tv* My name is Fiddleford Hadron McGucket and I wish to unsee what I have seen.

You, Dipper, Mabel, Wendy, and Soos: *gasp*

McGucket: Sweet sarsaparilla...!!!

Fiddleford: 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. *uses the ray on himself*

*static*

Fiddleford: It worked!!! I can't recall a thing!!!

*static*

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

*static*

Fiddleford: *a little messy* Today I came across a colony of little men, very disturbing! I would like to forget seeing this. *uses the ray on himself*

*static*

Fiddleford: *injured* 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.

*static*

Fiddleford: *older* I saw something in the lake, something big!!! *yanks off his hair*

*static*

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

*static*

Fiddleford: *starts speaking gibberish and does a triangle over his eye*

*static*
...

You: ...whoa...

Mabel: Oh McGucket, I'm so sorry...

McGucket: *takes the memory tube with a genuine smile* Aw, hush, you kids help me get my memories back just like you said!!!

Mabel: But... did you want those memories back...?

McGucket: 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!!! *puts the memory tube in his beard, then hambones a message*

Dipper: Still don't know what that means. So wait, you weren't the author but you worked with him!!! Do you remember who he was?!?

McGucket: It's beginning to come back, but I need more time. And readin' glasses, heck! *takes some glasses and puts them on as some glass fell off, then spits on a bucket* I got some remembering to do!!!

Wendy: So, Mabel, do you still want to erase those failed summer romances?

Mabel: *looks at McGucket who's happy to have his memories back, then back at Wendy* 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.

Wendy: That's some mature junk right there, Mabel.

Mabel: Yep, Miss Mature!!! *pulls up a poster of Gabe Benson* Hey, you wanna help me vandalize this picture of my jerky ex-crush?

We went home. The whole ride I was thinking of the memory tube that had my name. What memories had I forgotten?!? ...did I even wish to know? That night I had trouble sleeping. I turned to face my nightstand and see the cabinet I hid the tube in. I took it and went up to the roof. I started to fiddle with the memory tube in one hand while with the other I fiddled with my necklace. I heard some creaks from close by and I hide the tube. I heard a familiar voice, making me smile.

Dipper: Hey, mind if I sit?

You: Not at all.

Dipper: *sits next to you*

You: ...

Dipper: What are you doing up here?

You: Just... needed some fresh air...

Dipper: You couldn't sleep?

You: Isn't it obvious?

Dipper: *chuckles*

You: *blush slightly*

Dipper: ...(y/n), I-I wanted to thank you for saving me from the guy earlier.

You: Of course, I can't stand the thought of you getting hurt.

Dipper: *blushes*

You: *realize what you said and turn a deep crimson red* I-I-I mean I can't stand the t-thought of anyone getting hurt!!! I-I needed to help you!!!

Dipper: *turning a deeper red as he rubs the back of his neck* Well, thank you.

DANG IT!!!!! I hate that Dipper has to be such a cute dork!!! I looked at my memory tube, then back at Dipper, then at my lap letting my bangs fall over my face.

You: ...D-Dipper...?

Dipper: Yeah?

You: ...t-there's something I need to show you. Earlier today when we were looking for McGucket's memories I-... *take your memory tube and show Dipper* I found this...

Dipper: *takes the memory tube* Your memories?!?

You: I know I should've told you earlier but we had to help McGucket!

Dipper: Do you remember anything about the Blind Eye?!?

You: Well, the ray did have a familiar aura but everything else felt completely new!!! By what we saw, the people kidnapped by the Blind Eye still remembered that they were taken!

Dipper: Then we should see what memories are here!!!

You: ...

Dipper: What's wrong?

You: Dipper, there's a reason my memories were taken... There's a side to me that I don't remember, and do I want to remember...? What if there's something about me that makes everyone hate me or something...?!? What if... what if you hate me...?!?

I felt my eyes start to sting and felt tears go down cheek. I had been worrying about this all night. What if I see my memories and then everyone hates me?!? I feel Dipper cup my cheek and softly tilts my head to face him. I stared into his brown eyes as he stared into mine. His expression was serious as he wiped my tears away.

Dipper: (y/n), you're one of the most amazing people I have ever met! Nothing in this world can make me hate you!

You: ...

Dipper: I understand why you don't want to see your memories though, so I won't force it.

He gives me a genuine smile and I wrap my arms around him, burying my face in his chest as he wrapped his arms around me. I could hear his heartbeat which was beating even faster than mine! I smiled. I wish this hug never ends.

I have some news. Starting today I'm going to go on vacation for a week and I won't be able to write. But as soon as I return home next Saturday I will start to write the next episode. 'Till next time!!!

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