Mystery Kids Mexico

Mystery Kids Mexico is a subgroup that is located in Monte Macabre.

## Origins

When assigning different places for the core group to travel to so they could make their subgroups, Stanford Pines specifically assigned Dipper to Mexico, the reason being that “an old friend” lived there and Ford wanted Dipper to say hi in his place. Ford then revealed that he was in a temple-like structure and that Ford made a map leading to him in one of his journals. Taking the journal with the map in it, Dipper was taken to Monte Macabre, where he encountered Victor Calavera and his brother, Valentino, as they were headed toward the wilderness outside of town to the south. Apparently, they heard rumors of an undiscovered temple somewhere nearby that no manner of GPS devices could detect. Intrigued, Dipper agrees to come along, which got the attention of a young girl and her brother. Victor explained that they were Charlene and Pineapple, and they always caused trouble for Victor and Valentino. Charlene explained that she and Pineapple also heard about the temple and wanted to get to it first, showing Dipper and the brothers an ancient map that matched Dipper’s. Challenging the brothers to a race to the temple, Charlene and her brother managed to get a head start while Victor, Valentino and Dipper were close behind. Unfortunately, the children were being unknowingly followed by some nefarious characters...

When they reached the temple, they were greeted by a mighty voice after they began messing around the temple entrance. A computer monitor opened up from within the temple walls to reveal a 3D image of an Aztec-like bust. Revealing itself to be an artificial intelligence built thousands of years ago by an extinct civilization whose influence inspired the Aztecs to make their own societies, it introduced itself as Olmec and welcomed the children to what the locals used to call “The Hidden Temple”, which was really just a place that the ancient civilization used as a coliseum for games. Scanning Dipper’s DNA because Olmec was reminded of someone, he realized that Dipper was related to the only man who could beat all of his challenges, Stanford Pines. Happily letting Dipper and the others inside, Olmec told the five children were invited to compete in a game of wits and might, the winner earning a special reward. Each contestant would be represented by one of six animals when they competed that would appear on coins that the contestants were meant to hold onto: the Blue Barracuda, the Red Jaguar, the Orange Iguana, the Purple Parrot, the Silver Snake and the Green Monkey. Before the group could pick their animals, they were interrupted by two very evil beings: X’tabay and Flame Face, villains who sought the “Hand of Ahuizotl” that was housed inside the throne room. Olmec explained that the Hand of Ahuizotl was a weather machine that the locals helped develop to make it rain when there were droughts. However, in the wrong hands, it could flood entire cities, such was the fate of Olmec’s people. Flame Face explained that they planned on giving it to their boss, Carlos Calaca, so he could drown the denizens of Monte Macabre to increase the number of troops in Calaca’s army. Realizing that the stakes were high, the children agreed to work together to keep Flame Face and X’Tabay from getting the weather device. Olmec explained that the contestants had to unanimously agree on a prize. They all agreed on the Hand of Ahuizotl, with Flame Face and X’Tabay intending to use the device and Victor and his friends intending on destroying it.

When choosing animals, Olmec explained that it was one person per animal. Once Flame Face picked the Orange Iguana and X’Tabay picked the Silver Snake, this left one of the kids without an animal. Eventually, Dipper allowed his four new friends to pick their animals. Victor picked the Blue Barracuda, Valentino picked the Red Jaguar, Charlene picked the Purple Parrot and Pineapple picked the Green Monkey. According to Olmec, there were six challenges. Dipper realized this meant that they had a two-thirds chance of winning. However, if Victor, Valentino, Charlene and Pineapple each won a challenge and either Flame Face or X’Tabay won more than once, it was game over for Monte Macabre. They had to step up their game. With Dipper begrudgingly sitting on the sidelines, Victor and his friends, along with X’Tabay and Flame Face, began their competition.

As they competed, Flame Face and X’Tabay each won a game. Fortunately, so did Victor and his friends. In the end, it was a tie between everyone. Olmec explained that in situations like this, there needed to be a tiebreaker: the Temple Run, an obstacle course that lead to the prize, the Hand of Ahuizotl. While Victor and company were running through the course, Dipper noticed a cat-like warrior sabotaging the course in favor of X’Tabay and Flame Face. When Dipper managed to catch up to the creature, he introduced himself as Jaguar Javier and attacked the boy for interfering. Javier explained that he was sent as a reinforcement in case Flame Face and X’Tabay were taking too long getting the Hand of Ahuizotl. In spite of all the odds, and with Dipper distracting Javier, Victor reached the Hand of Ahuizotl first and destroyed it, ruining the plans of his three unusual new foes. The three villains retreated, vowing revenge and warning them that “Calaca will know about this”. With Victor and friends victorious, they decided to become Mystery Kids Mexico and Dipper went back to Gravity Falls. These events inspired Olmec to become a game show host, albeit with different rules than his older games, but warned Victor and his friends that whoever Carlos Calaca was clearly must never be taken lightly.

## Members

* Victor Calavera (founder and leader)
* Valentino (founder)
* Charlene (founder)
* Pineapple (founder)
* Rawhide
* Snag

## Allies

* Dipper Pines (founder but not a member)
* Olmec
* Juan Aguacate