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[There's a slightly awkward looking kid waving nervously. He's wearing what's obviously the Seven Titans gear - or at least, obviously to anyone who's seen enough of them around. He also has a slightly troubled look about him... whatever it is that's bugging him, clearly it's been weighing on his mind for a while.]

Uhh... Hi! My name is Wataru and... I'm part of the Seven Titans kind of.

Um, I was wondering... [Geeze this is weird, projecting a message to a bunch of people he's never even met, but...] Did anyone else here... well, did you come here while you were in the middle of something important? 'Cause, well... My friends and I had some stuff to do, and if I don't get back--

[...He'll probably become the Half.]

Well, a lot of really bad things will happen.

We still don't have a clue how to get back or anything? And nobody's found any hints yet?

[Because as neat as this world is, he really, really needs to find a way back to Vision before Mitsuru beats him to the tower.]

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There probably wasn't anything weird about the show either, huh?

I wonder how all of this could have happened...

Nope, just another episode of Ducktective.

I dunno, but I'm definitely going to find out.

...Ducktective?

[Well that's... a title.]

Are you keeping notes on that, too? [He's actually pretty curious, since Dipper already seemed to be so diligent about it just in their one conversation before.]

Ducktective. It's basically Sherlock Holmes, but Sherlock is actually a duck.

[And that's really all there is to that.]

Absolutely. I'm keeping tabs on everything. There's got to be some kind of connection to why we were brought here. Things don't just happen for no reason, especially things that rip through time and space.

Oh... Okay.

You seem... really used to this.

[Snorts.]

I'm used to weird stuff disrupting my otherwise boring day. The town I'm staying in for the summer is this really spooky hotspot for the supernatural. It's barely been a month into June and let me tell you- I have been chased by gnomes, attacked by ghosts, and almost strangled by a deranged child psychic who got friend-zoned by my sister.

With that place keeping me on my toes as it is, there's no way I wouldn't be taking notes here.

And all of that happened to you in the real world? I didn't think stuff like that really existed!

Neither did I! For some reason all of this stuff is just concentrated to this little town in the middle of nowhere. Honestly, what bothers me the most about this whole thing is that it's not Gravity Falls!

Even though I saw a wizard in my world once, it was because he came over to my world from Vision. Ghosts and things like that don't really exist over there.

...I think.

[Mitsuru had said some interesting things on that matter, but again, he hadn't exactly stuck around to explain much beyond that.]

This place is similar to Vision, but it works a bit differently, too. I used to think Vision was a lot like a video game when I first got there, but this place takes it to even another level.

[Putting it like that, Dipper pauses, something clearly occurring to him.]

Well, it wouldn't be the first time I've seen video games and reality blur together. Long story short, this cursed arcade game made it so one of the video game characters came to life and he kind of wrecked everything.

You think maybe we are all in some video game?

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A cursed arcade game?

[...If only characters came out of his video games. What he'd have given to have the fairy Neena suddenly pop out of his TV.]

...I don't think so. I wasn't anywhere near a video game system when I came here, so I don't think it's even possible for me.

Have you ever heard of Fight Fighter? It's this old fighting video game. There was this secret code scribbled on the side of it, and when I entered it in, one of the characters came out.

I mean, that sounds really cool in theory, but man. Oohhh man. It was a nightmare.

[Shudder.]

Gotcha. So, I guess we can rule that one out.

Was it a bad guy that came out?

[Because... why else would they wreck everything?]

...I'm not even sure if everyone here comes from a world with video games, either.

Not really, but when you're from a side scrolling, 2-D fighting game, you kind of just want to punch everything. People, cars, buildings, you know.

[He's not going to get into the whole mess where he told Rumble that Robbie was his arch enemy, nope.]

That's true, too.

[A sympathetic wince.]

Okay... Yeah, I can see how that would be a problem.

We got it all sorted out thankfully, but not without a sizable amount of property damage.

How'd you deal with that?