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Everyone asides from team D, who were already inside the building and team A who were waiting outside the building were gathered inside a monitoring room. Camera footages around the battle ground were displayed in a huge screen. All Might was talking to the two teams via a communication device while the class get to know the other two foreign students. “So, Pacifica?” “Urmm?” “You said your last name was Northwest. Was it the same Northwest who own a support company in America?” Jirou asked. Pacifica seems to twitched before answered the question. “Yes, that Northwest.” “Whoa, what’s with the tone?” Kaminari asked. “It just, I hated my parents. And it’s not like a child tantrum hate, but hate hate. They want me to continue their business and even almost married me to a stranger I never met just to strengthen their influence. UGHHHHHH...... The main reason I’m here was also to get rid of them from my life.” She tell with a hateful tone. The class stared in disbelief of what a horrible parents they are.
“Errr... How do you meet Dipper?” Hagakure asked, trying to change the subject. “Oh, I met the dork and his sister on their first summer in Gravity Falls. The first time I met them was when their great uncle was hosting a party. But back then, I’m just a snobby blond bitch. You know, arrogant, a jerk. I compete with Mabel for the party crown but I barely see Dipper then. Mabel would’ve won if it wasn’t because I cheated. My relation with Mabel develop from enemy to golf rivals to frienemy. But I really get to know Dipper when my family held a grand gala. Our mansion was hunted and we have no choice except to ask Dipper for help.” She paused a bit while looking at Dipper who is watching the villain team making some preparation through the screen. “Since he’s a nerd about supernaturals, my dad believe he can help us. We then discovered that the ghost that hunted us was really a villain who is avenging his ancestor. *sigh* My parents and I actually knew he’s coming and my father forced me to lie to Dipper because the villain wouldn’t attack if we allow the town folks join in the party. But my father was an asshole and he didn’t want the “commoners” to ruin his image and reputation. Dipper was so mad with me that he just leave me alone and went to deal with the villain.”
Three years ago
Pacifica's P.O.V
“You were just another link in the world’s worst chain!” Dipper yelled at me. He then ran into the forest to defeat the villain. I felt so terrible for lying to him. But I have no choice. My father forced me. Otherwise, he will use the bell on me. I could just watch Dipper disappeared beyond the woods. I wanted to chase after him, but my body just froze. This guilt, this terrible feeling is crushing me alive. “I am sorry Dipper...” warm tears streamed down my face. I walked back into the mansion. I heard someone calling my name, most likely the butler, but I just didn’t have the energy to cared about the world. My mind just thinking about one person. Dipper. I wandered around the house aimlessly. Before I realised, I was in front of the painting with the secret entrance to a some kind of vault with a lot of strange things that Dipper and I happened to found while running away from the villain. 'I would really need a place to think.’ I thought. I stepped into the room and trying to looked in the dark.
Suddenly, I felt my feet kicked something. I looked down to see a flashlight. I pick up the flashlight and examine it. I saw an initial written in black with a marker pen. D.P. It’s Dipper’s. I smiled to myself as I remember when Dipper threw a silver mirror at the villain’s head to distract him before pulling me out from the room and ran through the window. Then it hit me. Not only I lied to him, I also disappointed him. I remember the excitement and eager in his warm hazel eyes when I told my house was haunted by ghost. Of course he want to see a real ghost, he’s a supernatural nerd for god sake. I felt ten, if not hundred times more terrible. I use the flashlight to looked around the items inside the room.
Most of it was simple things, like old ceramic vase and a bunch of old furniture. But then something caught my eyes. Paintings. Paintings of my ancestors, like the one at the hallway. But as I took a closer look, the painting was a little bit different from those at the hallways. I gasped as my visual of the paintings became clear. The first painting was my great-great-great grandfather, Noah Northwest, but instead of making peace with the native Indians, he seems to crossing one finger behind his back. The second painting was my great grandfather, Alexander Northwest. The painting at the hallway shows him giving bags of apples to the town folks. But this one shows him taking, no, stealing bags of money from the town folks. And the last painting was my great great grandfather Nathaniel Northwest, the founder of Gravity Falls, which Dipper said was a cover up by the government. The painting shows him posing on top of many animal corpses, while holding a shotgun in his hand and not some heroic post on a stone holding the American flag. That’s why the room was hidden. That’s why they put the painting in the hallway. They are all a fraud. A liar. Just like me. Dipper’s word rang in my head.
“You were just another link in the world’s worst chain.”
Me. A link. World’s worst chain. He’s right. He’s always been. He’s always sees the truth and I’m too stupid to sees it.
Third Person P.O.V
Pacifica walked away from the paintings and sat down on the floor. Her back were leaned against a box covered with white sheet and her arms were hugging her knees. She felt empty. She felt remorse. The guilt still eating her alive and there’s no way she could fix it. She felt cold. She missed the warm feeling of Dipper when she accidentally hug him when they managed to escaped from the villain. She missed the comfort feeling he’s provided. She missed him. She don’t know what happen to him after he ran away chasing the villain. She’s worried about him despite that she couldn’t not look him in his face after what she had did. Unconsciously, she started to flicking the switch of the flashlight light, switching it on and off repeatedly. She then heard her name being called faintly. But she couldn’t gather the strength to even response and just sit there. The voice become louder and louder and finally the voice was just besides her. “Pacifica! There your are. I almost get the villain when suddenly he threw a weird smoke screen and I almost fainted. He then entered the mansion and use his quirk to started turning everyone to wood, and he started to rhyme for no reason and- Pacifica, are you alright?” just the Dipper realised the Pacifica seems... down.
“You know why this room was hidden?” Dipper seems confused with her question. She shined the flashlight towards the paintings. “This room keep all the painted record of all the terrible things my family have done.” Tears started to flow from her eyes. Dipper knell down to her and put a hand on her shoulder. “Lies. Stealing. Hurting others. Nothing, not one single thing had my family done that bring good. And now...” She’s flashed the flashlight at herself. “Me. You’re right Dipper. Y-you're ri-right all along.” She couldn’t hold her tears any further. “I am just another link in the world’s worst chain.” She started to cry. She hugged her knees tightly and sobbed into her arms. Just then, she felt warm. She felt a pair of comforting arm wrap around her. She looked up to see Dipper is trying his best to comfort her.
“Listen here Pacifica. You’re maybe your parents daughter, but it didn’t mean you need to be like them. You’re Pacifica Elise Northwest! You’re Miss Gravity Falls! One of the best mini golf player! And I’m sure not everyday you meet someone who brave enough to fight a ghost-quirked villain. So when I said it, I mean it, that you, Pacifica Elise Northwest was a great person and was nothing like all those fraud.”
Pacifica just froze with the revelation. Dipper trusted her. Dipper believed in her. Dipper stand up and offers her a hand. “So, what do you say? Wanna kick a villain’s ass and proved yourself to your parents?”
Instead of taking his hand, Pacifica get
up and wrapped him in her arm. Dipper was shocked with the sudden action. Pacifica release the hug and look him in the eyes. “Thanks Dipper. You’re right. It’s not too late” Dipper gave her a welcoming smile.
“ IT’S TOO LATE!” a yelled echoed through the mansion. Sudden realisation hits Dipper. “Dammit! I forget he’s still here!” Dipper took her arm and run to the hall. “YOU ARE ALL WOODS!” The clock striked midnight and all the guest was turned into woods. “From betrayal lesson had been learnt, now it’s time for you to burned!” the villain shouted from the center of the hall. “Stop right there!” the villain turned around and looked at Dipper. “Operta Virtu-” Before Dipper could activate his quirk, a blue fire blasted from the villain’s finger tips and hit him at the chest. His body slowly turned into woods. He turned his head and looked at Pacifica. “Dipper!” He smiled at her. “Only you who can save us, Paz.” His sight began to dim and his consciousness slowly to faded away.
Pacifica P.O.V
“Dipper!” I couldn’t believe it. He got Dipper. I was all by my own again. I don’t know what to do. I lost him again. This time he’s not running into the woods and I might never see him again. What should I do? What should Dipper do? Just then I remember what the villain told us. My ancestors betray the town. They didn’t keep their promises. And I must fullfil their promises.
“Hey ugly!” the villain turned around to see me by the main gate lever. “ I will fulfill my ancestors promise!” the villain grinned at her. “Then do it. Open the gates. Do what your ancestors failed to do.”
As my hand reached the lever, I heard a noise behind me. “Pacifica” I turned around to see my parents and a butler inside a secret room under the floor. “Come into the panic room. We have enough food for a month for you, your mother, me and the butler.” Then my dad said with a slower voice. “We will eat the butler.” I starred down at the dumbfounded. How sick was them? They dare to run away from their own problem and let everyone else face the consequences. “But father-” father took out the bell and rang it. I flinched. I hate it when he rang it. When I was little, every time I disobeyed him, he will rang the bell and I would be punished. So I grew up, learnt to obey him with the bell. “Pacifica Elise Northwest! You’re my daughter and you must obey me!” Then it hit me. What Dipper had told me in the room earlier.
“You maybe your parents' daughter, but you didn’t need to be like them.”
“Your are Pacifica Elise Northwest!”
“... a great person...”
“... nothing like those frauds...”
“... prove yourself to your parents...”
I braced myself. My hand slowly reaches the lever while father constantly rang the bell. “Pacifica! We have a reputation to uphold!” I ignored him. My hand reaches closer and closer to the lever. “Holy Dolly! Was this thing broken?” father rang the bell more aggressively. I took a deep breath and exhaled. And I hold the lever’s handle. “I am Pacifica Elise Northwest and I’m nothing like you. I will become my own person and I will fix our already broken family name!”
I flicked the lever and the sound of the town folks cheering could be heard. I looked at the villain and saw tears streaming down his eyes. “Finally.... It’s happening! Great great grandfather, I avenged your death...” the villain kneel and slammed both of his hand onto the ground. A huge energy wave flowed inside the entire building. All of the guest slowly turned back to normal and suddenly his body slowly turned into wood and burned into ashes by a blazing blue flame. I looked around and see Dipper had turn back to normal. I ran towards him.
Dipper’s P.O.V
Suddenly, a bright light blinding my eyes. My body felt sore and my head is pounding. As my vision cleared. I look around to see the guests have turned back to normal. The front gate is opened and the town folks rushes into the party.
I turned around and saw a sight of a blond girl rushes to me. “Pacifica! You did-” I couldn’t even finish my words when she snatched me into a hug. My face blushed. “I am glad you’re alright.” She said. I slowly hugged her back with rubbing the back of her head. “Me too Paz. Me too.” She lifted her head and looked me in the eye. “Did you just called me Paz?” my eyes widened as large as a plate as I realised what I just said. “I-it just m-more easy to say you know? I mean i-if you don’t li-like it...” she giggled at my shuttering. My heart just skip a bit as I surely just heard the most beautiful giggle in the world. “ It’s okay Dipper. I kinda like it.” Her giggled turned into laugh which I finally joined.
We spend a couple of hours partying with the town folks. Surprisingly, the rich and upper class didn’t seems irritated, in fact they seems more enjoying the party than ever. Paz and me ended up at the balcony of the room, star gazing. “Wow, your balcony sure have the best view in the mansion!” I said. For the first time since I met her, this is the first time she looked, truly happy. Not like when she won the party crown at Mystery Shack party, not like when she is giving a speech during Pioneer Days, and not like when she plays mini golf against Mabel. All of those looked fake. A forced enjoyment. But now... was the first time I see she smiled that way. A smile that looked so bright. So sweet. Did I really doing what I think I doing right now?
“Hey Pacifica...” she turned her head and looked at me. And I froze. She smiled at me, possibly the brightest smile in the whole world. “Yes?” I shook my head from the awestruck of her beauty. “Call me crazy, but deep inside my heart, you are not very bad after all. Although you used to treated my sister badly, but now, I saw kindness in your heart. You’re a kind person, Pacifica. And don’t let anyone said otherwise.” We looked at each others’ eyes, I felt like I was drown by her glinting dark blue eyes. I was mesmerised by her.
Slowly, my head started to tilted unconsciously towards her and so does she. The time in the world seems to stop as my lips touched her's. Our lips locked into a gentle yet long passionate kiss. For just that moment, everything that happened, how she had mistreated my sister, how she acted when she asked for my help, how she lied to me, seems to vanished from my head. I didn’t think her as a snobby arrogant blond, but a kind girl with a brave heart. A lips parted and we were stunned by each other.
“Dipper,” she broke the silence. “I am sorry for what I have done. I shouldn’t treat your sister like that nor lied to you. If you could turned back time, I would fix all my misdoings. But I couldn’t. So what I could do now, was that I’m asking you for a second chance. A second chance to treat people nicely. A second chance to befriend with Mabel. And,” she hugged me like that time after I was freed from the curse. Not like when she accidentally hugged me, this hug was meaningful, warm, comforting. “A second chance to honestly tell you how I feel to you.” She release the hug and once again, planted a kiss in my lips. I was startled a little but didn’t resist. This kiss was shorter that before, but wouldn’t ask for anything else than this. She retreated her lips and looked me in the eyes. “Dipper, I love you.” Just those simple word was enough to lit fireworks in my heart. Just those simple word was enough as her redemption. Just those simple words, make me realised I felt the same. “I know I humiliated your sister, called you a nerd. I know I’m the worst. I understand if you don’t feel the sa-”
Before she could even finish, I pulled her into a kissed. Her eyes widened but she slowly began to understand. I parted the kiss and put my forehead against her's. “I love you too, Pacifica.” We stay that way for a few second before she start to broke into giggles. Eventually I started to giggled too. We then looking at the stars, guessing constellation and just enjoy our life. “Oh, I know that one. It’s the Big Dipper. Just like your name!” she said. I looked at the sky at look at the constellations. It’s true. It was the Big Dipper. Ursa Major. “ You’re right. Wow, I didn’t know you knew so much about astronomy.” I was impressed by her knowledge. “Well, my father sign me up for a bunch of classes so I could meet his standard. Business, computer science, even advance physics. But among all the classes, astronomy was the only one I actually enjoy learning. Especially about stars. They are beautiful yet mysterious. And that,” she pointed at the Big Dipper. “Was my favourite.” she confessed. I looked at her in awed.
Unconsciously, hand reaches my bangs. 'Should I show her?’ I wondered. No, she would laugh at me. But, this is not the Pacifica I knew before. The Pacifica before this day, was not the real Pacifica. And standing in front me here, was the REAL Pacifica. A kind hearted, brave Pacifica. And I decided, she wouldn’t judge me. “Hey Paz, want to know why I was nicknamed Dipper?” I asked. She tilted her head at my question. 'Oh man, she looked so cute when she does that.’ I thought. “Wait, Dipper wasn’t your real name?” she asked. I chuckled at her assumption. “No, it’s not. Now answer me, do you want to know or not?” she nodded. Slowly, I lift up my bangs and show her my Big Dipper birth mark. She stared it in awed. “Wow... It’s really look real...” She stated. Suddenly, tears started to streaming down her face and she covered her mouth with her hand. I started to worry. “Paz? What’s wro-” suddenly she snatched me into a hug. I was confused but didn’t mind of it. “Dipper, you know why I love the Big Dipper?” she asked, still burying her face in my chest. I shook my head slightly. “ Because every time I felt lonely, every time I felt sad, I would look at the sky. And every time I looked at the sky, it was there. Always there as it was there to comfort me. To tell me it’s okay. And now, I know that the Ursa Major will always be here for me, supporting me through thick and thin. Always comfort me with his warm hugs. You’re my Ursa Major, Dipper.” she looked at me and I saw the most beautiful smile in the whole world. I wipe away the tears on the face and she lifted my bangs to have a better look at my Big Dipper on my forehead. She then rested her head on my chest and we enjoy the peaceful night all of our own.
*Flashback ended.*
*Present time*
The whole class was awed and amazed by the story that Pacifica just shared. They so into the story, just a few moment that they refocused themselves to the battle between Bakugou and Midoriya, with involved so much explosion and destruction. The only person who didn’t even seems interested in her story was Todoroki. Mabel was chatting with Grenda while Dipper was focused on the fight. Even Yaoyorozu hear her stories although her eyes were focused at the battle footage.
“Woah! Dipper-kun was such a gentleman!” Ashido exclaimed. “That’s so manly!” Kirishima was impressed by his friend's story. Eventually, the whole class started to agree and expressed their amazement. Pacifica seems glad that her newfound friends didn’t judge her by her past. “Yeah, Dipper really changed my life. In fact, the twins really does bring a lot of changes in the town. Not just me, the twins also helped a bunch of people. They helped McGucket gain his memories back, Mabel helped Soos with his romance life, Dipper helped ended the grudge between Manotours and Multibear, Mabel helped Mermendo return to his home, and they even save the world. They really changes the town more in a summer than any of the town folks in a lifetime.” She said while smiling sheepishly and looking at her boyfriend