PART 1
On the bridge of the mothership, the aliens in astronaut gear cheer as the smaller ship docks, relieved to have finally brought the robots, known as Animus, home. The aliens are pleased with a certain adjustment they made to the Animus, allowing them to last considerably longer than normal. One of them is happy about the report they will be able to give the Prime Council on Xabvus before asking where an alien known as Uki-Dohth is.
The Captain of the ship appears, informing them Uki-Dohth is still in a research lab. He tells his comrades on the bridge that they have one hour for Uki-Dohth to study the data from the Animus and figure out a solution before they respond to another incoming force. One of the aliens says that the other force might misinterpret their silence, and the Captain says that if the opposing force comes before a solution is found, they will leave, solution or no.
One of the aliens points out that Uki-Dohth won't like that, especially considering how hard he has been working since the twins came back. The Captain sticks to his plan and requests communication with the Loitis, the smaller ship that has the Animus on it. The alien on the Loitis, Ken-Olun, tells him the Animus will be back to rest in a few minutes, then they can leave. The Captain reminds him about Uki-Dohth and the time-rift and tells him to call back when the Animus are at rest before cutting the line.
Ken-Olun bring a diamond-shaped container up and sends the blue charges into it before turning to deal with the Animus. The Animus walk through corridors, a computer keeping count. Once all the Animus have gone past, the computer tells Ken-Olun that two are missing. Ken-Olun goes to find them, but is ambushed and knocked out by the twins.
The twins follow after the Animus, pleased that no alarms have gone off yet. The twins watch the Animus get into pods. The pods fill with a gel that clears the Animus of their appearance. Dipper feels the pods and says they feel organic. Mabel sees a sign for the labs and the twins follow the signs.
The twins find a room with glowing tubes in the ceiling. All of the animals belonging to people in town are also in the room. They also discover the real Gobblewonker in a large tank. Mabel sees a sign that says the aliens want to study the Gobblewonker before Dipper sees a large tank with bursts of light. Unable to figure out what the tank is, they climb up to the catwalk close to the tubes in the ceiling.
As they look at the tubes, Dipper briefly sees the outline of a person before it disappears. Dipper sees another outline, Mabel seeing it as well, and they realized they found their friends. Ecstatic, they go to find a way to get their friends back. Mabel finds a computer and begins trying to hack in. She discovers there is a password, but the tubes are called Chrono-Locks.
Doors open and an alien starts heading towards the computer. The twins hide between the tubes as the alien looks at the screen, and the word Mabel left typed into the password box. He questions what an alpaca is, saying the word in English, causing Dipper to gasp and reveal his presence. At first, the alien thinks he is hallucinating, but then he recognizes Dipper.
Mabel jumps down from the ceiling and tackles the alien, ready to punch him. Dipper and the alien both tell her to wait, causing the twins to freeze. The alien reveals that he has studied Earth before, and he learned English as a result, even if he sounds like someone from the renaissance. Mabel continues to be aggressive, but Dipper points out that they can use the alien to help them rescue their friends.
Dipper calls the alien an invader, but the aliens says he is a scientist. Dipper asks why he replaced everyone in town with robots, threatening to let Mabel go crazy on him like she wants. The alien asks to explain himself, but is interrupted by the alarms the twins were worried about finally activating.
Dipper asks for a translation. Mabel and the alien both begin to respond, Mabel telling him the alarm says there are hostile lifeforms on the ship, shocking the Alien. He asks how she can understand Urlin, his language, and Mabel tells him about the blue charges zapping her. Dipper asks the alien to help them hide, and the Alien complies.
The Alien takes them out of the tube room and to another room with several monitors in it. The twins realize he has been watching them the entire time, but he insists it was for observation purposes only. He pulls up an old file that describes the mission of the Fershul, the ship they are currently on.
Mabel reads the file, which says that the mission is to discover the source of a large 'Chrono-signature' from three 'Ultris' ago, and to solve any problem it might have caused. The file then goes on to warn that humans can be dangerous. Mabel apologizes to the Alien for attacking him. The Alien is ecstatic to be the first Xabvri to make peaceful contact with a human.
Dipper tells the Alien that he and Mabel will leave, but the need to get the townspeople back. The happy Alien deflates, saying things are much more complicated than they appear. He says their teleportation beams have been offline for under half a Ultris, or three years.
The twins realize just what happened that December to cause the missing week of data. The Aliens wanted to take one or two people to study them, but the teleporters messed up, taking the whole town instead. To save themselves trouble with whoever told them to observe the town in the first place, they replaced the people with robots until they could figure out how to fix everything. The Alien tells them the teleporters are not at fault- he is.
He pulls up an image of the Animus and says that, in earth terms, the Animaus are artificial people. They can adapt to any environment after a sample of the species in question is taken, thereby able to study the people as one of the people. He says that they are still programmable, but after significant research, his species discovered that the memory technology in the Animus is nearly identical to human nerves, which is why Tambry thought she was a person.
Dipper again asks what happened to the people of Gravity Falls, still not getting the straight answers he wanted. The Alien bluntly tells him that they no longer exist before more Xabvri show up. One of the Xabvri tells Uki-Dohth about what the twins did to Ken-Olun before leading them to confinement.
The shell-shocked twins are left alone in a cell, the words 'no longer exist' floating through their heads. Dipper says they never had a chance, but Mabel says they can escape and do something. Dipper tells her there is nothing they can do and says they lost this round. He says they should have gone home after they got Grunkle Stan back, and all of the trouble the past two weeks could have been avoided.
Dipper blames himself for everything, for deciding to stay in town the two weeks anyway. Mabel yells at him and tells him she made that choice too, and that everything that happened was just as much her fault as it was his. She then mentions all the good things that came out of the two weeks, from the new friends they made to Dipper getting to spend more time with Wendy. Dipper says he spent time with a robot Wendy, but Mabel points out that if what the Alien said is true, Animus Wendy and real Wendy would have acted exactly the same way.
The Captain of the Fershul, Hyul-Pruq, come into the room with a translator device. Mabel pulls a Bavarian Fire Drill to finally get the full story. Hyul-Pruq says the people of Gravity Falls no longer exist in the linear flow of time before explaining fully. Thirty-ish years ago, the Xabvri detected a surge of chrono-energy coming from Earth. A semi-interest at the time, three years ago, another surge of the same energy happened, gaining everyone's attention. The Fershul was sent to investigate Gravity Falls and to find the portal- the source of the chrono-energy. Discovering Gravity Falls was a less-than-significant place, but full of strange energies, the Alien the twins met earlier, Uki-Dohth, suggested using chrono-stasis to freeze the town while the Xabvri investigated. Unfortunately, the residual energy from the portal reacted with the chrono-stasis, breaking the field that would normally keep a subject frozen at a certain point in time, causing them to no longer exist past the time the Xabvri attempted the chrono-stasis.
Uki-Dohth comes into the room with a scanner device while the Captain explains that they have spent the entire time since the attempted chrono-stasis trying to bring everyone back. Uki-Dohth scans the twins as Dipper realizes the point of using the Animus was to make sure no one not in Gravity Falls realized there was anything wrong.
Uki-Dohth's scanner beeps, informing him that the twins have rogue energy on them from the events three years ago. Uki-Dohth says he could use the energy on the twins to bring the people of Grabity Falls back into the timestream. He begs the Captain to let him take the twins to the lab, but before Hyul-Pruq can respond, one of his men informs him that their hour is up- a species known as the Toldori has almost arrived, and they have to leave Earth.
The Captain tells the twins they will be taken back to Xabvus, the aliens' home planet, and put on trial. He tells Uki-Dohth to leave the twins alone and go back to his post before leaving to deal with the Toldori. The twins beg Uki-Dohth to let them help him bring their friends back, but the scientist leaves them alone.
For a few seconds, before diciding that since he is at fault, he must be the one to fix eveything. He lets the twins out on their cell, the three of them agreeing that they are friends now. The twins introduce themselves to Uki-Dohth, all of them shaking hands. Mabel decides the Uki-Dohth needs a nickname and begins calling him Yuki, much to his dismay. Dipper tells him to just get used to it, and Yuki begins leading the twins back to the labs.
PART 2
On the way to the labs, Mabel asks Yuki what the tubes with people outlines are about. He gives her a techno-babble explanation, which Dipper translates down to the Xabvri using the tubes to make sure the people don't fizzle out of existence.
Yuki leads the twins back to the room with the monitors and clicks through hundreds of files, showing his research of the human body. Dipper asks Yuki if the rogue energy is dangerous, which it isn't to humans. Yuki explains that his species has the ability to adapt their bodies to other atmospheres. He then says that one of their laws means they have to adjust the atmosphere on the ship to match that of the subjects they have, which is why his species wears astronaut gear even when on the ship.
Yuki pulls out the scanner from earlier and takes a blood sample from the twins, using it to see how the rogue energy impacts the human body. The computer does some stuff, and the names of the people in Gravity Falls begin appearing on the screen, getting everything ready for returning the people back to earth. Mabel sees the Corduroy's name, but only sees four of them. Dipper asks if Mabel saw Wendy's name, but she's not sure.
They hear noises from outside the room. Yuki looks out to see guards heading towards where the twins are supposed to be in confinement. Yuki locks the doors of the room they are in just before the alarm starts again. Xabvri start pounding on the door, able to hear the twins talking inside. One of the Xabvri begins bypassing the lock on the door. Deciding now is as good a time as any for a test, Mabel and Dipper prepare themselves to fight the Xabvri.
Two guards come through the door and the twins go at them, Mabel handling her guy quickly. Dipper at first tries to talk his guy out of fighting, but realizing the Xabvri is determined to attack, Dipper eventually goes at him in full force. He is able to knock out the guard, Yuki and Mabel watching him in shock. Mabel complements Dipper on his moves before asking Yuki if his species practices fighting, which they do not.
The ship rumbles and shakes. Yuki pulls up a camera angle that shows a weaponized ship docking with the Fershul. The sirens and alarms stop as Yuki explains the ship is a Toldori Destroyer sent to 'rescue' the Fershul. Yuki tells the twins that, unlike the Xabvri, Toldori do know how to fight, which means they only have a little bit of time.
The last name appears on the computer, meaning everyone is ready to be re-inserted into the universe. Yuki tries to adjust the teleporters to put the people back, but discovers he has been locked out of the controls. Yuki says that if they can get to the Loitis, they can use the teleporters on that to put the people back in town. However, they would have to re-enter earth's atmosphere in order to do so. Yuki decides that he will pilot the Loitis to earth, drop off the twins and put everyone else back, then fly back to the Fershul.
The scanner beeps, telling Yuki everything from the Animus- their memories and last coordinates- are ready. Yuki explains that since the people of Gravity Falls technically don't exist, they can give the people the memories of the Animus from the past three years, and will be able to re-sync the people to the proper age, meaning they won't realize anything weird happened.
The three of them start heading towards the Loitis. Mabel mentions the animals and Yuki starts programming the computer to teleport the animals back as well, explaining that the animals were taken after he realized they wouldn't be able to survive without the people. That done, they continue on their way to the Loitis, desperate to avoid the Toldori.
Entering the room with the Animus pods, they come face-to-face with a seven-foot-tall, tiger-like creature. Yuki informs them that the creature is a Toldori before the cat throws him across the room, cracking the helmet of his suit. Mabel attempts to punch the Toldori, but it grabs her in mid-air and throws her to where Yuki is hyperventilating. Mabel takes care of Yuki while Dipper fights the Toldori.
Dipper notices wires hanging around the pods and uses them to trip and tie down the Toldori. It appears to work, but he forgot one thing: cats have claws. He has just enough time to say Oh, Crap! before the Toldori is free, using the sliced wires as a whip, knocking Dipper down, one giant foot crushing his chest.
Just before Dipper blacks out, a person slams themselves into the Toldori, knocking it off of Dipper. Mabel check on Dipper while Yuki lifts the Toldori by the neck, holding it up against one of the pods. He tells the Toldori not to threaten his friends before hurling the cat across the room, slamming it into one of the pods, knocking it out cold. Mabel asks Yuki if he was always that strong, and Yuki tells her no before the three of them head to where the Loitis is docked.
Opening the doors to the hangar, Yuki and the twins are met by the Captain, along with several guards. Hyul-Pruq tells Yuki to stop helping the twins, but Yuki says he has to, telling the Captain the twins are just scared children, similar to Yuki himself, and it is natural for them to want answers. The Captain tells Yuki that the Prime Council on Xabvus will banish him if he continues to help the twins and break every law in the book.
Yuki tells the Captain that he is already banished before pulling off his cracked helmet. He reveals that when it cracked, he became adapted to Earth's atmosphere, meaning he can never go back to Xabvus anyway. Hyul-Pruq allows his son to live on Earth and fix everything, and the two say goodbye, the twins following Yuki to the Loitis.
As Yuki gets the ship up and running, he explains that his super strength from earlier was a result of him breathing the Earth atmosphere. He calls his father and tells him that once the teleportation is complete, the Loitis will auto-pilot back to the Fershul. Hyul-Pruq give Yuki the okay to takeoff, and once Yuki makes sure all the teleportation technology is set up, he begins heading towards earth.
The twins laugh as they realize they are actually in space, Yuki smiling at the twins' amusement. As then enter Earth's atmosphere, Yuki tells the twins that once the Loitis hits the surface of Earth, they will have one minute to start the teleportation process and leave the ship before it heads back to space. The twins nod and prepare for touchdown.
The ship hits the road in Town Square and the twins start running out of it as Yuki starts the teleportation process. The twins make it outside the ship and turn around, waiting for Yuki to come out, the seconds ticking down. The stairs begin retracting as the ship slowly lifts off, Yuki still nowhere in sight. The doors start to close, Yuki making it out just in time. Unfortunately, he is fifty feet up, and falls hard, hurting his ankle.
The twins pull him to his foot, looking around the town, waiting for the teleportation to take effect. At first it seems like it didn't work, but then someone coughs. Slowly everyone fizzles back into town, temporarily stunned that it is night, but they all go about their business as usual. Yuki and the twins hug each other as they realize they succeeded, Yuki crying tears of joy. He says that even though he is happy about completing his mission, he is still upset that he can't go home. This hits a nerve with the twins, who offer him an alternative.
Back at the Shack, Yuki is icing his ankle as the twins explain everything to Stan, Wendy and Soos. Stan is stuck on the fact that Yuki caused everything in the first place and wants to ransom him or something. Everyone one else is able to convince Stan that since Yuki was willing to not go home to fix his mistake, he's a good guy.
Stan asks what Yuki's plan is, and Mabel tells him they had planned for him to stay at the Shack. Stan says that while he is okay with Yuki getting off scot-free, the place would be crowded enough once the Manor officially opens. He admits that an alien would fit in with the other weird stuff in the building, but he doesn't have enough money to afford feeding someone.
Dipper mentions him and Mabel living there for the summer. Stan reminds them that they are leaving in the morning, but Dipper shocks everyone by saying that he's not anymore. He says that with what he and Mabel accomplished in two weeks, they are not going home until they have to for school, Mabel agreeing with her brother, making everyone happy.
She asks Stan if Yuki can stay, Stan still debating. Yuki asks what a night-watch is, and a lightbulb goes off in Stan's brain. Yuki tells Stan that he can stay up for five whole days after sleeping for 15 hours, and Stan hires him on the spot, telling him half his pay will go towards the rent.
Stan and Soos leave, the latter to find a name tag for Yuki. Yuki tells the twins that he is nervous about living among humans, telling them that while he appears around their age, he is actually 88 years old, which is still considered young for an Xabvri. As Soos shows Yuki how to work the pin on the name tag, the twins sit down together, exhausted. Wendy and Dipper apologize to each other for what they said earlier, Dipper telling Wendy that he does trust her, causing a weird reaction from her, but he is too tired to notice. The twins close their eyes, about to fall asleep when Stan yells at them from outside, finally having noticed the wolf on the wall.
By the Gravity Falls lake, a figure in a hoodie climbs out of a sewage pipe, grumbling and stuttering to himself. Pulling out a phone, the Warlock, whose name is revealed to be Graupner, talks to someone only identified as 'Master,' his stutter clearing up as the two communicate. The Warlock tells his Master about the spell he attempted, informing him that there was too much interference to get a clear reading on whatever it was they were searching for. As the Warlock mentions how much energy there was in the town, the Gobblewonker slowly starts creeping up on him. The Warlock agrees with his Master that the town is the one they should look into more, before promising to let his Master know if someone he thinks is dead makes an appearance. The Gobblewonker makes his presence known and the Warlock hangs up on his Master, screaming like a little girl.
Cryptograms:
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Huh. Was Wendy on that list? I didn't see her.
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Left on an alien world, his gear is all he haves to hold of his people. This is the tales of the lost astronaut.
