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PART 1

Wendy enters the Shack to see Mabel working on decorations for her and Dipper's door. Stan comes out, asking where Soos is. Soos crashes through the ceiling, his head sticking out, and informs Stan that he found the weak spot in the roof. Soos attempts to get out of the ceiling as Wendy tells Stan about an article in the Gossiper about a group of robbers known as The Five Freaky Friends who are supposed to come through town soon.

An exhausted Dipper mentions the local police, who Wendy points out are less than worthless, and Soos falls through the ceiling. Mabel tries to get Dipper to help with her door decorations as Soos goes back on the roof. Dipper instead suggests she train him, but Mabel insists on making her decorations. That is until Soos crashes through the roof a second time, and she decides the decorations can wait until the roof is safe.

As Dipper can't do much with his arm, Mabel decides to try and teach him meditation. They go into the woods to avoid the sounds of Soos fixing the roof. Mabel tells Dipper to 'feel a light in his head,' but changes it to clearing his mind as the light thing sound really vague.

Dipper struggles greatly with as his brain keeps wanting to ask questions and the sounds of the forest continue to distract him. Mabel tells Dipper to stop thinking about what else he could be doing, and Dipper is about to try again when he notices a fairy in front of Mabel's face. Mabel gasps and accidentally swallows the fairy. Dipper leads a shocked, begging-for-death Mabel back to the Shack. She bolts upstairs and buries herself deep in sweater-town as Dipper explains what happened to the others.

Dipper comes upstairs to comfort her, but it doesn't quite work. Then Mabel feels something in her chest and burps big enough to knock someone over, sparkles coming out of her mouth. Mabel blinks, but instead of seeing the attic room when her eyes open, she sees a street in town. She blinks again and her vision returns to the attic.

Dipper grabs the Journal and figures out that the 'fairy' Mabel swallowed was actually a Pixie, or a baby fairy. Mabel panics until Dipper tells her that ingesting a pixie will cause levitation, but sense-changes occur if the pixie is stuck in the throat. Realizing she is not a baby murderer, Mabel calms down, and the twins head into town to test out Mabel's new abilities.

The twins make almost 50 bucks by betting people Mabel could guess what they were doing recently. Mabel winks at Dipper, causing her to have double-vision. Closing her other eye, she sees a map of Gravity Falls, circles around buildings with notes that make her realize she is seeing the Five Freaky Friends' plan to rob Gravity Falls shops.

Dipper takes notes on everything Mabel sees, and the two decide to take the information to the police. Upon arriving at the station, Mabel insists on using the bouncy castle the police used state funding for. Dipper pulls her away and the two tell Sheriff Blubs that the Friends are going to try to rob the local gym that night.

Later that night, the twins are waiting in Dipper's car for the Friends to show up, the police set up to capture them. While they are waiting, they have made a game of tallying how many people are doing what activity. Just after 'dancing naked' gets another point, the Friends show up.

It's only one person, but he's right on time, and the twins' counter-plan goes off perfectly, and he is captured before he can do anything. The twins tell the police that they have a way of figuring out the Friends' plan for the next few days.

The next four days pass in a blur of capturing the Friends, one each night. The morning of the originally planned last day of the Friends' burglary spree, Mabel is having trouble finding the last Friend's vision. She, her brother, and Candy and Grenda are hanging out on the porch when Mabel notices three balls of light coming towards them from the forest.

The balls of light reveal themselves to be real Fairies. One of them, Twinkle-Moon, is the fairy equivalent of a lawyer, and he introduces his partner, Bob, and his client, Jingle-Blossom. Twinkle-Moon charges Mabel with theft, kidnapping, and ransoming of the Pixie, Jingle-Blossom's child, and says that, in accordance to Fairy Law, Mabel is Jingle-Blossom's for judgement.

PART 2

Luckily, Fairy Law says Jingle-Blossom can't kill Mabel, no matter how much she wants to. Unfortunately, she is able to put a curse on Mabel. The curse is that, until she dies, Mabel will never have her own senses again. Immediately, Mabel can no longer see out of her own eyes. Jingle-Blossom sets time limits on when the other senses will go- smelling after Mabel sneezes, taste the next time she gets hiccups, hearing when her ears pop, and feeling if she shivers.

The Fairies leave, and Dipper leads Mabel back inside, calling a Shack meeting to get everyone up to speed. Stan says he will go through his notes while Dipper decides to take Candy and Grenda into town with him so they can check out the library again. Mabel asks to come, but everyone tells her to stay put for now, Stan dropping postcards everywhere to give Mabel something to do.

Everyone leaves to do research, except for Soos, who continues construction, and Wendy, who stays behind to make sure Mabel doesn't do anything stupid. Once Mabel is done with the postcards, Wendy notices the door decorations Mabel had been working on several days ago, completely forgotten about in the chaos. Wendy offers to help Mabel with the decorations, and the two begin working, Mabel looking through Wendy's eyes as much as possible.

They finish just before Dipper, Candy and Grenda return with over 40 books, and they all spend several hours looking for anything they think could help. After several hours of not much, Candy mentions that, since Pixies can't move until they are animated using positive energies, they have to animate the Pixie so it can come out of Mabel on its own. The only problem is that they don't know how to do that.

Wendy suggests talking to the fairies and getting then to do it, but everyone tells her that the fairies wouldn't do that since they cursed Mabel. Wendy tells them that it's their best option, as time is getting short. She pulls out the day's newspaper and shows them an article that the Friends the twins helped capture have been released, their bail posted. The article also mentions the twins by name, as well as where to find them. Mabel decides that they are going to go talk to the fairies, Dipper leading her outside, Grenda and Candy following them.

Just as they get to the edge of the forest, the Five Freaky Friends show up. The kids hide in bushes and behind trees and the Friends try to get inside the Shack, Stan turning them away and shutting the door in their face. Mabel, realizing just how dangerous the Friends are, tells Dipper that they need to run into the woods to get the Friends away from the Shack.

The four of them start running, Dipper leading Mabel, the Friends following behind them. The kids reach a log crossing a stream. Candy and Grenda leave to try and get back to the Shack as Dipper leads Mabel across the log. He makes Mabel hide in a bush, then jumps into the stream, providing a distractions and leading the Friends away from Mabel, who is now alone in the forest.

As Mabel is debating her next course of action, Jingle-Blossom appears. Mabel suggests she animates the Pixie so she can get her baby back, but Jingle-Blossom refuses, saying she is not ready to become a mother, and that Mabel's friends will protect both Mabel and the Pixie. Mabel points out that her one of the Five are more likely to find her before her friends do, and Jingle-Blossom leaves to gather the positive energies needed to animate the Pixie, leaving Mabel alone again.

After several minutes, Mabel gets out of the bush and walks back across the log. Unfortunately, as she can't see, she falls as she reaches the far side, causing her ears to pop.

Now blind and deaf, Mabel meditates, trying to calm herself down. She realizes the the light in her head is brighter than ever, and she uses her newfound focus to find someone in the forest not to far from her and use their senses. She shouts, hearing her voice from someone else's ears, and one of the Friends comes over to her.

The Friend asks how Mabel was able to know their plans ahead of time, and Mabel tells him about the Pixie before the man tries to attack her. He misses as she is able to know what he will do by seeing it through his own eyes. They fight some more, Mabel even managing to kick him in the head just before the other four Friends show up, running from something chasing them.

Dipper comes over to Mabel, and she switches her senses to him as Multi-bear corners the Friends. The rest of the gang from the Shack show up and everyone leads the Friends back to the Shack, where the police are waiting. The police take the friends away as Candy and Grenda go home, and Multi-bear returns to his cave.

The fairies show up and quickly animate the Pixie, which flies out of Mabel's nose, her senses returning to her. The newborn fairy decides that it wants to be a girl named Rainbow-Star, after the design on Mabel's sweater. The now four fairies leave back into the forest as the twins go back inside. Mabel's vision catches on her door decorations, and she quickly runs upstairs and places them in their place on the door to the attic, Mabel telling her brother that it looks perfect.

Cryptogram:
Xozk blfi szmwh ru blf yvorvev rm uzrirvh. Yfg gsvm hslfg zmw hxivzn ru blf yvorvev rm Nzyvo!
Clap your hands if you believe in fairies. But then shout and scream if you believe in Mabel!

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