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[The door Dipper and Mabel are standing in front of might be familiar to people who have been here for a long time, or who are fond of walking around on the fourth floor and looking at doors. It reads Angel's Investigations. It's closed, and has been for a while. But the twins look excited.]

Hey, everyone! Dipper and Mabel, the last staff standing of Angel's Investigations here. As you may know by now, Angel and Faith are gone, leaving us in charge. We've been working on the best way to use the space for a little while now, and we're finally ready to open the doors of the new Angel's Investigations to the public!

[Mabel pulls a handful of confetti out of her pockets and throws it up in the air.] Boom! [And it falls back down, giving them both a nice smattering of confetti on their heads and shoulders. Yaaay.] We thought about changing the name, but we figured it would be disrespectful to Angel’s legacy and also Cordelia’s logo, which totally does look like a little old man with whiskers.

[SORRY CORDELIA, BUT WHAT HAS BEEN SEEN CAN NEVER BE UNSEEN.

Dipper brushes confetti from his hair, then pushes open the door, revealing the office.

It looks a lot like it used to, the old hotel lobby feeling is still there, but there are several bookcases shoved up against walls, as well as several large conspiracy boards, white boards, and a projector.

Dipper beams as he walks in, panning the camera over all the additions.]

We're still investigating, but what we're specifically investigating is the Mysteries of Wonderland. I know, I know, who isn't doing that, right? But what we're specifically doing is consolidating research. I've made copies of all the notes in the library and started to try and organize it. It's… a process. But I think we might really be able to make some headway if we all work together!

[Mabel walks over to the desk chair and flops down on it, giving it a good spin.] So when stuff doesn’t add up or if you find some weird new clue about Wonderland, you can bring it to us, and Dipper’ll put it up on his mystery board, so we can all stare at it. [She stands up in the chair, which seems very dangerous, and gesticulates wildly.] Ooooh. So mysterious. So. Many. Questions~

Mabel! [Take this seriously Mabel, oh my god. Dipper shoots her a glare.] So. Uh. Yeah! Come on down. We're here to clue in the clueless!

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Well, uhm, I was thinking about the fact that we get our memories back when we go home, right? Like, w-we don't forget words when we leave, so Wonderland must be storing those memories, not consuming them entirely. I was thinking about trying to, uh, m-make a drone to get into the CORE, since I've heard it's not safe to go near physically, but I don't know a lot of, uhm, specifics about it.

[She's pretty okay sharing intel on this at this point, since it's all theoretical.]

The only success I know of with the Core was this girl who used to be here, Antimony. Mabel and I brought her stone thingy over and though we got sick right away and couldn't look at it and forgot our parents' names, she got a pretty good view astral projecting herself from the Real side. A drone could work, or at least could preserve your memories.

Yeah, and the stone was fine! So it probably won't hurt a robot that doesn't even have memories to steal.

[man this seems so obvious.]

[She listens with rapt attention.]

I t-thought so! Or that, uhm, something without memories to steal might be able to survive the initial shock enough to send some data back about output and workings. I can design stuff that can, uh, fly, or at least propel itself short distances, it's just a matter of getting it to the mirror side and everything. But if it'd work that well, this may be less, uh, i-impossible than I thought.

Can you make more than one? Cause we can't count on the first one lasting very long. Especially if you won't be there directly supervising it.

Could you make a flock of drones?

[that could descend on the Mirror side!! like angry birds!!]

Uh, probably!

[Seeing as the closet gives her unlimited materials, once she has a design for one, it's just a matter of time.]

I'd have to make a prototype first that could cross through the mirror. After that, uh, s-since Wonderland supplies unlimited materials, I can blueprint it and it can be assembled by just about anybody. Though, uh, I would want a direct camera feed of some kind on it, so we wouldn't be flying, uhm, t-totally blind.

Do you know anything about real items crossing mirrors? I know, uh, we can't cross, but, uhm, c-can things? Or does a Mirror have to take them over?

[Dipper shakes his head.] I think a Mirror has to take them over. Every time I've thrown something it's just broken the mirror. Or itself.

[Mabel sulks.] Time to find a Mirror who isn't a jerk...

I mean, there has to be s-someone, right? Then again, if they got in trouble...

At the very least, uh, if we have a working prototype, maybe the mirrors will go down again eventually, like they did last year? But I'm not sure I really want to go, uh, messing around with mirror physics. It doesn't seem safe.

[Like most science, it's build the thing and wait for the timing. She just has to hope that opportunity doesn't come too late.]

I'm sure they will eventually. It always happens sooner or later. [OR LIKE A WEEK FROM NOW. WHO KNOWS.] We should have a plan in place.

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