Boo~

"So you made more friends last week? And had a party right after? Hahaha." Pa asked while chuckling a little at how excited his grandson was telling the story.

"Yes! The Geodites are very nice they even solved my iron problem." Luffy looked like a typical kid who just made new friends.

"And what do you want to do with iron, my dear?" Ma asked as she wiped the remaining candy from the corners of Luffy's mouth.

"Well~ It's just that I want to build a top-secret laboratory that hardly anyone knows about." I said with eyes shining at that thought.

The two grandparents looked at each other smiling at each other at the cuteness of their grandson and that maybe he will become a scientist.

"But then you can use this place to make ~your top-secret lab~." Pa said emphasizing the 'top-secret'.

"I can't grandpa, you two took care and created this place together it wouldn't be fair." Luffy said crossing his arms not accepting to turn this place into a laboratory but his grandparents found his actions cute.

'And I can't interfere too much with the plot either, each of Dipper and Mabel's adventures is a lesson for them to grow and be better.'

"How about just wearing the bottom then? That way we can spend more time together and watch you work." Ma suggested as she remembered the underside.

"Are you sure grandma?" I asked uncertain about using a space that is a little bigger than the store itself.

"Of course, I do, right honey?" Ma agreed and asked for confirmation from her husband.

"Of course, there used to be a warehouse to restock the goods but it's not used after so long." Pa agreed and explained that it can be used however you want.

I thanked with a smile "Thanks grandpa and grandma but it's better to leave it until after I finish my training, one step at a time right?"

"Speaking of the lab, honey, doesn't that remind you of something?" Pa asked trying to remember what she had forgotten.

Ma thought for 5 seconds as she remembered what her husband was talking about.

"You mean that mysterious scientist with his shack?" Ma asked if it was that person.

"Yeah! Look if he's still in town you could try to learn from..." Pa was trying to remember the scientist's name back then.

"Stanford." Ma completed.

"Thanks love, so you can become a scientist if you decide to become one." Pa suggested to her grandson.

"No need grandpa I already know everything I need to be a... ~Mad Scientist~ Pftt." Luffy ended up laughing at the prospect of becoming a new Victor Frankenstein and creating a monster.

"Really? So our grandson is a genius?" Ma spoke tenderly as she ruffled my hair.

I was happy with the warmth.

Pa didn't think his grandson knew everything he needed but if he doesn't want to learn from someone else that was fine.

"Well I guess I have to go, I've been here a long time" It's been 4 hours since he arrived.

"Oh, that's too bad, but come whenever you want, we don't mind if you come back the moment you step out." Ma said as she put all the things away.

"Yes, you can come back whenever you want." Pa messed up his grandson's hair and gave Luffy a lollipop.

"Thanks, see you in a week or less if I see a ghost." I said and started running towards the ventilation duct.

"Your!~ Hmph* Better come sooner so you just saw a ghost right?" Pa replied with a mischievous smile.

'I got you.' - Pa

"Urgh* Ok, but I won't promise anything." I stretched my arm towards the exit a little grumpy.

Pa-WINNER

Luffy-DEFEATED

'This is what I get for making fun of my grandfather.' I jumped off the roof and started walking back.

Walking down the street with a branch in my hand, I start thinking about what grandpa said about studying with Mr. Stanford, but in a completely different direction.

'Working with Stanley would be interesting and would help me to get involved with the plot more easily, but it would take up most of my training time and with my friends.' I kicked a pebble along the way.

'I need to start learning rokushiki, go to the next stage of weaponry haki, observation haki, and somehow unlock my haoshoku.' I dodged a passerby while thinking.

'But all that aside, a way to make money would be nice, however small.' My thought was interrupted by:

"Come in, come in! Cheaper cars than the ones I'm going to show you, only if it's free!" An overweight person that we already know who is was introducing people to used cars.

'Ehh~ Bud Gleeful so Gideon must be around, he must be 4 years old now... Is he home now? Or in a daycare? Is there daycare here in Gravity Falls besides elementary school?' Not detecting the presence of Gideon in the used car store I made my guesses.

'Interesting models but I do MUCH better with scrap and the only thing that might interest me here would be the car body and I can try to make it myself with some iron.' I decided to continue on my way after a short break.

After I left the used car store (1 minute) I spotted a child who was around 3 or 4 years old and a woman.

'Gideon and Mrs. Gleeful... I want to scare him but how am I going to do that...' I lifted the hood of the sweatshirt my grandparents gave me even though it was weathered it was the first gift he received from them since he became their grandson.

'I need to make a present for them too...'

I bumped purposefully into Gideon.

"Ah~" Gideon ended up falling on his butt on the floor and his mom quickly helped him up and apologized for that but Gideon...

"Don't you look where you're going?" Gideon asked a little annoyed and his mother tried to calm him down.

"Oh~ I'm sorry little one but as you can see I can't see." I said pointing to the blindfold on my face.

Noticing my blindfold he asked a little less annoyed than before.

"Then why are you walking alone if you can't see?"

"Well...because it's not my legs that stopped working young man." Realizing that the boy's anger increased, his mother apologized for bumping into me.

"Alright ma'am, I also apologize for not hearing the footsteps of two people in front of me, and as an apology let me give your promising son some advice." I crouched a little and spoke as sinisterly and mysteriously as I could and low enough for only him to hear.

"Beware little Gideon, mischievous children who read someone else's diaries to do evil is not cool and quickly regret it when the consequences of their actions come and knock on their door in the end."

Well, it looks like it worked out as he was showing fear and trembling slightly.

Then I got up and started stroking Gideon's head.

Gideon didn't like the hand on his head at all, it looked more like he was holding him by the head so he wouldn't run away.

"Great son you raised ma'am I'm sure he will do ~great things." I said smiling but for Gideon, that smile was not nice at all and more for a fairy tale monster.

Mrs. Gleeful thanked him for the praise for his son and encouraged his son to thank him too.

"T-t-thanks for the a-advice s-sir." Gideon found himself obliged to 'thank' the scary person in front of him.

Gideon's stuttering as he thanked me shows that scaring him off was a success.

"That's it I just did what I thought was right but I need to go now I have friends waiting for me if I may ma'am." I ducked slightly and continued on my way.

"You could make friends like him son, even if he can't see, he has friends to support him." She said heading towards where her husband worked.

But Gideon didn't listen to what his mother told him, still afraid of the 'advice' of the scary person.

They continued towards their father's workplace.

'Hm~ Giving Gideon a scare was worth it, will he chase after me after he finds the diary to get answers? Yes but I don't regret it...' Whistling happily with the results.

*Ssssst *Ssssst

'?' Turning towards the sound which is a little far away but still noticeable is in the junkyard.

'Is McGucket building something?' Noticing him with my haki I go towards it to kill my curiosity.

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I jumped the fence and now I'm on top of a pile of junk with McGucket in front of me building whatever it is.

"Hello Uncle McGucket, what are you doing?" I know he's building something, but I'm not sure what components he's using, just an idea.

Surprised by a sudden and unexpected visit.

"WHO'S THERE?" He was going to pull something out from under the rubble but saw who was his visitor at that unwanted moment.

"Oh it's you, I didn't think you'd come here when I'm BUILDING A MACHINE FOR GLOBAL DOMINATION! *Classic "evil" McGucket laugh."

"Pfft, seriously Uncle McGucket, I know this isn't what you're building, and maybe I can help you improve something." I walked down the scrap heap to the front of McGucket and his invention.

"Did your friend go on your retirement?" I asked remembering one of the inventions McGucket made in the series.

"Nah, this one has another use *Hammer and bolt sounds* Hand me that skewer." Mcgucket pointed to a screwdriver in the middle of the scrap heap.

"Screwdriver?" I asked and handed it to him.

"Hm? I use it to skewer meat and sometimes tighten a loose screw." He said after picking his nose and going back to his newest creation.

"And what are you trying to build?" I crouched down beside McGucket.

"I'm trying to make a lethal ray so I CAN GET RID OF EVERYONE IN THIS TOWN!!"

"Let's say I believe you're going to use this and not to drive unwanted people out of your yard, this is too big for that sort of thing and is more likely to explode in an attempt to activate." I said analyzing the gears and other components he was currently using.

"The problem with making a lethal beam is the source of energy, the quality of the material to withstand the heat of the beam, something we don't have here."

"It looks to me like you're using combustion and kinetic energy here and it looks like you're using hydraulics as well... But Uncle McGucket this is still too big to be a death ray and even if you apply that to a robot it's also very inefficient in terms of energy and heavy will be a single shot that if he can shoot instead of exploding with overheating..." I told you about the failures in making a lethal beam with junkyard stuff and not with quality materials and it's not impossible to do something with a single shot but the problem is the energy.

McGucket seems smart at this point and not crazy considering everything I've said, but as fast as his intelligence came in her it left, he turned to me and asked.

"Uncle?!" A little perplexed and wondered if he'd heard right.

"Yes, did you say I could come whenever I want or would you prefer me to call you sir like last time?" I asked knowingly.

"N-no, it's just that I'm not used to people visiting and calling me that, nor is my son coming to see me." He said remembering his son who is working now.

"Well, I hope you don't mind me visiting often, Uncle McGucket." I smiled at McGucket.

"Of course, you can come as much as you like here." McGucket responded happily at the prospect of someone who will be with him for a while.

"But other than that Uncle McGucket, I think if you do it like this..." I gave ideas on how to solve the problem with other forms of energy and other creative ideas for new creations.

McGucket was happy with my ideas and talked about other ideas of his that didn't get off the ground that could be improved.

"Well... It was nice spending time with you Uncle McGucket I'll be back here next time be careful not to cause any explosions with your inventions or spread chaos around town." I waved my hands and headed towards the exit, I've spent a lot of time in the city, way longer than expected.

"Come back often if you don't YOU WILL MISS THE NEXT INVENTION THAT WILL SHAKE THE WHOLE CITY!!" McGucket waved his hands before laughing evilly.

"This looks more like you*Laugh* and don't overdo it." I jumped the fence and headed towards the forest this time without any interruption.

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"I am back!" I said when I returned to our temporary home with my friends waiting for me.

Ravi as usual was already running up to me probably asking me how the day went.

"Are you asking me how my day was? It was good I told my grandparents about the party we had that day and what we did this week." I took Ravi on my lap he soon started licking my face.

'I'm used to it already.' I went towards the others.

"How's the training going?" I asked Ravi and he started barking excitedly and a little mime.

I turn to Iron, who's overseeing all the training, so no one relaxes just to confirm.

He nodded his head confirming that everything is going well.

"Well, that's great." I patted Ravi's head who was quite happy with it and frantically wagging his tail.

'No one would believe you are a wolf in front of me and they would think you are a dog.' I laughed at the comparison of him hunting and on my lap now.

"Well Ravi, I'm going to test a few things and train to master that technique I said I would teach you two. Until then, you can go roasting the meat you hunted without me."

Ravi barked and lifted his chin, his actions radiating the word 'Leave it to me.'

"Shishishi, ok I'll train and leave everything to you." I patted Ravi's head and nodded to Iron.

Walking towards the forest I start to think about which rokushiki I learn first.

'Tekkai, Geppou, Kamie, Rankyaku, Shigan and Soru... Analyzing all the techniques that will come in handy now is Soru, it is also the "simplest" technique to use, kicking the ground 10 times in a single instant will be a challenge, but who doesn't like one?'

I arrived at a nice part for training in the forest, a little space and close to the temporary base.

'Now how am I going to do this? Gear Second has a similar effect to soru but consumes a lot of energy/nutrients from the body and will be needed when I'm going to use it on only one part of the body besides if I use what I'll call Gear Second Full Body with soru plus my physique what speed would I get? Maybe I can break the sound barrier in short and medium-range moves...'

"Well... Let's try it first now~" I position myself to try to go straight and quickly stamp my foot on the floor 10 times.

*Bam x10

And... it didn't work out.

'I didn't move and just destroyed the ground under my foot, it wasn't fast enough maybe... Well, I never expected to make it on the first try.' So began a training session that lasted a total of 3 hours and caused a lot of destruction in the terrain and some trees.

'It's already dark and I still haven't been able to use soru properly once and I'm very tired of using my legs as much as I could for 3 hours... Let's go one more I refuse to come back without any results.' I positioned myself once more on the destroyed field.

I took a deep, calm breath.

After 10 seconds of breathing deeply and focusing for one more try.

'SORU!' My body quickly tensed and I stomped 10 times in a single breath.

I disappeared from the place-

*Bash*Crash!*

I am upside down on the tree trunk 4.7 meters off the ground (15.4 feet) and yes the action of gravity has had no effect and I fall because I am stuck in the trunk.

But apart from all that:" IT WORKED! WOOHOO!!! Finally, I got out of the place even though I was thrown in the tree and not in a straight line, upside down and not at the expected speed at least I got some result after these 3 hours."

Iron, Ravi, and the others were coming towards me for the delay, noise, warning that the meat was ready and they had probably already eaten their share and were waiting.

'They must be curious about what I was doing, well let's get out of here I don't want them to worry about aga-"

*snoring~

"How hungry."

'I haven't eaten since visiting my grandparents and after doing so much exercise I must have used up my calories, I'm out of energy now that it's sinking in. I think I'll wait for Iron to carry me anyway...'

Soon they got to where I was training and it was a mess of dirt and cracks.

"Hey Iron, can you give me a hand here? I'm hungry and I've trained for a long time for some results." They heard and looked towards Luffy's voice.

And they saw a person with dust all over his body and upside down stuck in the trunk of a tree.

Iron shook his head from side to side seeing his master's plight and approached him.

"Eh~ Sorry for the mess but I couldn't help it and I'm too hungry to get out of here. The training was pretty explosive don't you think?" Iron was in front of me being almost 4 meters tall (3.78 m).

Iron ignored my sarcastic comment on the situation and blew all the dust off my body.

*Fwoosh!* (Seriously does anyone have a site where I can see several examples of onomatopoeia that I can use?)

All the dust on my body came out, except some that were nailed because of sweat.

"Much better, this wind has refreshed my whole body." I said feeling that I wasn't so sweaty anymore.

Iron wrapled my foot and pulled it down like he was taking a sticker off the wall.

*thud*

"Ouch, didn't I already say to be nicer I'm very delicate what are you going to do if I break a bone or two in the fall?" I joked a bit with Iron who was ignoring my comments.

Soon after he picked me up and placed me on top of his body and moved towards the base.

"Tsk, that's not funny Iron~." I said trying to get some reaction out of him which he kept ignoring.

*Bark

Ravi was jumping next to Iron probably asking about the technique I had talked about earlier and was training that caused all the terrain destruction.

"This?" I pointed my hand at the gradually receding spot.

"It's the technique I was thinking of teaching you, of course, the destruction was the consecutive failures of trying to implement it but it's a technique that focuses on instantaneous and momentary speed good for dodging something you wouldn't be able to dodge normally or for attacking. rapidly advancing on the opponent before he reacts." Ravi was listening very carefully to the technique I wanted to teach him.

"I think this technique would suit you who focus on strategies, effectiveness, and precision to compensate for your lack of strength so you should eat a lot, train, and grow healthy." Ravi seemed to be traveling after hearing everything I said he must have been quite happy with the technique and thinking of him using it?

But contrary to Luffy's thinking, Ravi was in 'heaven' because the technique was handpicked for him by his father and also his affection telling him to eat a lot and grow healthy.

"And if you can learn soru I'll teach you another technique called Rankyaku and it's offensive so try-hard." I told him another technique I thought I'd teach Ravi and encouraged him.

Upon hearing what I said, did he burn with excitement? Determination? Or anticipation for the future? Only he knows.

Arriving at the base after this little conversation I start to smell the meat.

"From the smell, it looks like you guys got better at roasting meat." Luffy said as he wiped the drool that formed in his mouth.

Getting close to the meat that was left for me I quickly jumped off Iron's back and started to devour the meat and Iron went in the other direction.

'He must have other things to do.'

"It's delicious guys, you got it right, you just need the salt that's in my bag, and... that's it." Almost finished eating the meat suddenly.

*Swishhh!!*

A very strong jet of water fell on Luffy for 5 seconds.

*ping*

*ping*

"IRON YOU BASTARD!!" I stood up and clenched my fists towards Iron.

He turned his head with a 'Hmph' and gave a small smile.

"I knew something was wrong with you ignoring everything I said, SO YOU'RE GETTING VENGEANCE?!"

*Swish

Another jet hit my face it didn't last long but it proved that Iron saved some water for that exact moment.

When Iron started to walk away as if his work was done he felt something in his head and looking back he saw that it was Luffy's arm that was stretched out.

"Where do you think you're going?! Shishishi" An imaginary bead of sweat appeared on Iron's head.

"Come back here!" Luffy quickly pulled his arm away and launched himself towards Iron.

He tried to get his hand out of its fur but it was tightly gripped.

As soon as Luffy arrived he wrapped his arms around Iron's neck as if he wanted to suffocate him.

And Iron returned in kind by wrapping his probocis around Luffy's neck. (Luffy's neck stretched so the scene was really funny.)

It was a funny scene with the two of them trying to suffocate each other and no one stopped it because soon.

"Pft- Hahahaahaha, thanks Iron for cleaning me up even though I know it was part of your little revenge, you traitor~ Hahaha..." Luffy was still on Iron's neck but it was just a hug instead of a squeeze Iron stayed confused at first but soon laughed a little at the situation too.

"Ugh, Iron... Could you loosen your grip a little? I'm starting to run out of breath-"

Luffy said as his color slowly changed to blue.

Iron quickly released his grip.

"*Inhale quickly*Sigh* Hahahaha well Iron taking advantage that I already told the technique I was planning to train Ravi." My arm quickly reached out to grab the leftover meat.

*Much x4* Gulp*: "I'll tell you the technique I was planning to teach you it's called Tekkai and basically it contracts and hardens all the muscles in your body so you can receive several attacks and take almost no damage the only problem is that you stay still and the level of defense will depend on your physique if you can improve this technique enough you may be able to overcome this disadvantage but you will have to completely master this technique and maybe you need others to be able to perfect it." Finishing with the explanation I stuffed what was left of the meat in my mouth and swallowed.

Iron understood the complexity of having his whole body contracted and why Luffy asked everyone to train his physique.

"Well that's it, time to-" Ravi jumped on top of me and barked.

"Hm? What's wrong Ravi?" Ravi kept barking looking at me.

I put my hand on his head and started stroking his head to see if he would calm down because I wasn't understanding what he wanted.

And he quickly calmed down in my arms as if nothing had happened.

"?" I thought of an option for why he acted that way.

"Ravi, are you… jealous? Because I was suffo-Cough* hugging Iron and was out most of the time today?" I asked Ravi while discreetly removing the word "suffocate" from my words.

Ravi nodded slowly, enjoying a little more of the affection since I was gone most of the day.

"How sweet Ravi, you miss me for being gone today but you're going to have to get used to that I might be gone a lot longer in the future so... I'll pet you as much as you want while I can." I spoke softly as I sat on the floor.

Ravi growled lightly at my words he was drowsy with the warmth of his affection.

"Um, sleep tight Ravi." The others were already lying down sleeping and Iron lay on my back.

I leaned on the Iron and relaxed my body to sleep.

"Good night Iron." He lightly rubbed my hair and rested his trunk beside me.

I lay down on his proboscis slowly so as not to wake up Ravi who was already sleeping happily with my hand.(Trunk or proboscis? which one do you understand better?)

'Good night grandparents and Uncle McGucket.' After a while, he fell asleep and another day passed with slight progress with Soru.

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Guys, I'm sorry for the delay, the chapter was supposed to come out Thursday but as my mother called a friend of hers to work here in the salon at home and the pc is in the office near the salon I can only write at 7 pm so because of that the chapter would come out Friday but my mom needed my help on the trip so I was helping her like that Friday Saturday Sunday and Monday had my friend's birthday Tuesday I slept at my grandma's after a long time and yesterday my mom worked until 11 pm. She doesn't like me staying in the office while she's working but other than that thanks for waiting some of you are warning me about the mythical zoan (who understands, understood, no spoiler) and awakening and yes there will be I have lots of plans for this ff, especially after the summer in Gravity falls is over. Thanks again for reading I'll re-read the chapter for mistakes and if you find any spelling mistakes please let me know.

Correcting the chapter for the 4th time because the dog doesn't stop turning off the Wi-fi I think it was another 2 hours of correction but I hope you liked it.

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