Summer with the Pine Twins

Scary-Oke: Part 1

Grunkle Stan's p.o.v.

It was another late night of working on my project, a huge bright light shining as everything shook. I step in front of the upside-down triangle-shaped machine soon muttering to myself. "Five long years and it's all lead up to this. My greatest achievement! Probably shoulda worn pants..." The machine sparks out, causing me to pat away some fire.

"Hehe, feisty, I like it," I head back into the safe room in front of the machine, and with the help of the journals I start making some adjustments and I look at the screens showing the progress. "if I finally pull this off, it'll all have been worth it. I just need to keep playing it cool. If anyone ever finds out about this..." I trail off as I look at a photo of the kids, in the right corner Mabel was holding her mouth wide with her fingers while she smiled and stuck her tongue out.

(y/n) was on the left, laughing at Mabel's silly face with Dipper in the middle putting bunny ears behind both of them and I can't help but smile as I scoff at the idea while putting on a six-fingered glove. "Heh, yeah right, I've come this far, who could possibly catch me now?" I flip the switch for the main power and another bright light shines.

I wake up to my alarm beeping and I glare at it as scrap paper falls from my face. "Oh right...Showtime," I get back upstairs and get ready for the Mystery Shack's Grand Re-Opening. "Welcome! To the grand re-opening of the Mystery Shack!" The crowd cheers. 

"We're here to celebrate the defeat of that skunk little Gideon," I pull out a Gideon plush to show the crowd who boos at it. "Please, please, boo harder. But I didn't catch that porkchop all alone, these three camps deserve some of the glory," I state, pulling the kids in for a hug before ruffling the top of Dipper's head when I feel a jab from (y/n) and I correct myself. " Okay, okay, most of the glory."

"Smile for the camera," Toby instructs us, holding up a cinder block with a painted lense on it. "Your camera's a cinder block Toby," I point out and he sighs. "I just wanna be a part of things..." "Smile for a real camera," Shandra tells us as the cameraman points at us Mabel exclaiming, "Everyone says something stupid!" Mabel sticks out her tongue while poking her cheeks, (y/n) makes it look she was strangling Dipper who was pretending to be strangled while I did jazz hands. "Something stupid!" "And don't forget to come to the after-party tonight at eight."

I tell everyone holding up a flyer when Mabel pulls up a karaoke machine while chiming in. "We're doing a karaoke bonanza, people! Lights! Music! Enchantment!" She blows confetti into the crowd's face. "And an amazing karaoke performance by our family band Love Patrol Alpha!" Yeah no, Dipper and I protest while (y/n) looked hesitant to say ok. "Too late, I wrote your names on the list, it's happening."

The front door opens and Wendy blows an air horn before shouting "Buy a ticket, people! You know you don't have anything else going on in your lives!" She starts leading the crowd out to buy tickets and I can't help but sigh in happiness. "The town loves us, we finally got that Gideon smell out of the carpet, everything is finally going my way." "Hey, Grunkle Stan? Now that we have a moment I've been meaning to ask you for our journal back," Dipper suddenly asks, catching me slightly off guard. I knew he eventually would but I didn't think he would this soon...It's a good thing I printed the pages.

"Wha? Journal?" I pat down my body looking for it before remembering I had slid it under the counter this morning when the kids had woken up and almost caught me looking at it. I lean down and grab it, handing it over, stating "Oh! You mean this old thing. It was so boring I couldn't even finish it." "Wait you're just gonna give it to me? Just like that?" Dipper asks and even (y/n) was giving me a confused look so I throw in a sarcastic remark.

"What else do you want? A kiss on the cheek?" "I...I gotta go!" He runs off dragging his sister and (y/n) with him. "I wouldn't mind a kiss on the cheek," I hear Soos and I quickly shut that idea down. "Not gonna happen."

Dipper's p.o.v.

I rush the girls into our room and lock the door, then turn all of Mabel's stuffies around so they can't see put a drape over the window, and (y/n) turns on the light, giving me a confused look. "Girls, we gotta talk. Almost losing our journal made me realize that we're only halfway through the Summer and still no closer to figuring out the big mysteries of Gravity Falls or learn anything new about (y/n)'s past. Gideon almost destroyed the town to get his hands on this journal, but why? Who wrote it? Where are all the other journals? What was Bill talking about when he said everything was going to change? There's something huge going on right under our noses and it's time we stop goofing around and get to the bottom of it."

"But Dipper, we've looked at that thing like a bazillion times and there's nothing left to discover, half of the pages are blank," (y/n) reminds me as I flip through the blank changed and I tell her "I just feel like we're one puzzle piece away from figuring out everything." "Don't worry, Dipper, Lord Mystery Ham is on the case! I play by my own rules!" Mabel tells me, lifting up Waddles before talking in a British accent. I give her a blank stare stating "I don't know why I tell you things."

(y/n)'s p.o.v.

"Do you hear that?" Dipper suddenly asks so I listen in closer to hear what sounds like a bunch of cars. I peek outside the window and gasp to see multiple black government vehicles. "Oh no..." I mutter and the twins stare at me and ask in unison "What?" "The Johnsons are here," I quickly rush down the stairs into the gift shop when I hear Soos ask "Hey Mr. Pines, what's that code word I'm supposed to yell when I see a government vehicle?" "Wait what? Government vehicle?" Grunkle Stan asks, looking out the window just as I slid into the room shouting "The Jhonson family is here!"

Grunkle Stan freezes at the code word or more code sentence and slams the windows shut soon shouting to everyone in the shack. "The Mystery Shack is now closed, everybody out! I will not hesitate to use the hose on the elderly!" Everyone clears out and he locks the door. "Grunkle Stan, what's happening?" Mabel asks as she and Dipper run into the room.

"Yeah, you never shut down the gift shop and over a family?" Dipper chimes in and I tell them "Johnsons is a code word for the government, they're here," The doorbell rings, and a knock soon afterward, Soos, Wendy, Grunkle Stan, and I gave the door a worried look. Grunkle Stan opens the door after grabbing his magic eight-ball cane. "Welcome to the Mystery Shack gentlemen! What can I get you? Key chains? Snow globes? These rare photos of American presidents?"