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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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Sounds great. I'll make sure we put some notes for you together.

[ She can definitely tell. He rockets way past precocious and into probably more capable than she is most days. ]

And I can help if you need anything else. I'd really like to figure out more about what's going on here.

Wouldn't we all? It's pretty cray-cray, but Gravity Falls was pretty weird too, and we figured most of that stuff out.

Gravity Falls? Is that where you're from? [ It definitely sounds like a weird place. ] Was there anything that happened there that was like this place?

Well, technically we're from Piedmont, but we were spending our summer there before we got here. [He nods.] And yes, it was weird enough that I wasn't even surprised when I showed up here. Stuff like this happens all the time. Wonderland's not even the weirdest thing. Just the longest lasting.

I don't know whether that's a comfort or just makes me more worried. I mean, the fact that there is another world floating out there that's like Wonderland. But I guess that explains why you seem so comfortable around here. [ At least someone is, because it's definitely not her. ]

It's less an entire world and more like one town. We stopped the weirdness from escalating and spreading.

Oh. Well. I'm impressed. [ Genuinely. ] Do you think what was happening in Gravity Falls could explain what's going on here, too?

[Dipper shakes his head.] This place is an entirely different kind of weird. I mean, we've got cryptids and demons and ghosts and stuff and interdimensional portals, but Wonderland?

[He shakes his head.]

Wonderland's more powerful than the worst thing we fought there.

[Mabel rubs her shoulder, cringing a bit at the truth of that.] Yeah, even an apocalypse was easier to fix than Wonderland.

[it's always gonna suck that there's no easy answer, but she's the beacon of hope on this team!] But that's what we're trying to figure out. Even Weirdmageddon wasn't so bad once we knew what we had to do.

Maybe what you experienced back home will end up helping us here more than you expect. Until then, I think trying to figure out whatever we can about Wonderland is a good place to start. [ She pauses. ] Do I even want to ask about Weirdmageddon?

It already has helped. [They're so much more capable now than they were before this summer. They've done so much.]

And that depends. You believe in magic yet?

I believe... There are some things happening here that are beyond reason.

[ Give her a week, Dipper. Her tune is about to change pretty soon. ]

In that case, Weirdmageddon is what happened when a dream demon invaded Gravity Falls and made everything super weird. He would've taken over the whole world, but we stopped him with a giant homemade robot and the power of love.

[cliffnotes version.]

... Okay, that was weirder than I expected. Which I guess is why you would call it Weirdmageddon. [ Teens. Always getting into some kind of insane demon trouble, huh? ] I knew Huey Lewis was all about the power of love but I never took it that literally.

[ Yes, she thinks she's hilarious. ]

Huey Lewis? [He looks over at Mabel and shrugs his shoulders. Not a name familiar to him.] Mabel's oversimplifying it a bit. There was also a memory erasing gun involved. And the demon in question is here.

[A beat.]

You... might be too unbelieving to have to worry about that, though. You'll probably just think you're hallucinating or something. Just don't make deals with any hallucinations of triangles you have.

That may sound like something you would never, ever do, but trust me. He can be very convincing.

Of course. [ No one ever gets her jokes. Mostly because they aren't funny but... details. ] I'll make a note. No deals with demonic triangles. I am sort of passed the hallucinating theory, though, if that makes you feel any better.

Oh good, you're not completely blind.

[it's not you, Chole. it's the HORRIBLE CIRCUMSTANCES UNDER WHICH THEY WERE BETRAYED BY BILL CIPHER.]

You'd be surprised how many people still think this place is like a smile dip vision quest.

[she shudders.] They have nooo idea what that's really like.

[ She's really glad Mabel is part of this conversation. At least she suspects they even each other out pretty well. ]

I don't know if accepting this is real makes me less crazy or more crazy.

[ She shoots a stern look at Dipper, though. Mostly because she is not enjoying being admonished by a un-aging fifteen-year-old. ]

At least I'm trying. Although I would like to hear more about this vision question concept. [ What? She still has to be a little skeptical. ]

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