Summer with the Pine Twins: Summer's Coming to an End

Not What He Seems: Part 3

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

We hide in the bushes surrounding the Mystery Shack, peeking out at the guards surrounding the building. "Alright, here's the plan, I'll take out those two guard guys, you two karate chop the other dudes in the neck and then we'll backflip through the front door," Mabel says and Dipper and I give her a look as he points out "Mabel, aren't you forgetting the simpler solution?" I point at her sweater where her grappling hook was and she understands.

Using the grappling hook we enter the Mystery Shack through my broken window. Quickly we sneak downstairs and into Grunkle Stan's office and lock the door. "Alright, if I were Stan where would I hide those servaliance tapes?" Dipper asks as we start to look around. "Wait the Antilabbet!" Mabel says pointing at the messed up antler on the rabbit. "Don't you mean the jack-a-lope?" Dipper asks and his sister scoffs. "That can't be right," Fixing the antler we watch that panel in the wall turn around to reveal security footage on the top tv and another tv under it with tapes under it.

"Yes!" We all shout before I pull out yesterday's tape and put it in. "This is it!" The tape turns on and we're met with Mabel and Wendy cheering Soos on as he did the wormy dance to some music. "Someone yelled wormy dance we had to! Fast forward."

Grabbing the remote Dipper fasts forward to six forty-five where we watch Grunkle Stan re-stock the gift shop. "Ha! There it is! Stan restocking like he said and the date shows it was last night, it's proof! He's innocent," Dipper exclaims, pointing at the screen and I hug the two with a giddy smile. We did it! That's when our attention turns to the screen as we watch Grunkle Stan leave the shop. We fast-forward to see no sign of him and we start to feel uneasy, it was eight o'clock, and still no sign of him. 

"Uh maybe he's going to the bathroom outdoors, the way nature intended?" Mabel nervously suggests as we continue to fast-forward to five am where we watch a guy in a hazmat suit walk in with toxic waste and we gasp. "Oh no...Stan...Please tell me you didn't..." I mutter and Mabel tries to reassure me. "Don't panic, that could be anyone in that suit," We watch the guy unload the stuff before he drops a tank on his foot and lets out a scream. "Hot Belgian waffles! Wait...I'm alone, I can swear for real. SON OF A-" Dipper fast forwards before he could finish the sentence mumbling "That's him alright..."

Mabel starts to pace around while Dipper and I looked through the box under the tapes. "Ok, ok so maybe Grunkle Stan stole some toxic waste. That doesn't mean he's leading a nefarious double life." "Uh, Mabel? I'm not so sure about that," Dipper says before turning on a light and we surf through the box to find a bunch of fake IDs and passports. 

"What is all this?" She asks and I mumble "These are all fake IDs, Grunkle Stan told me nobody would need these unless they're trying to hide something." "But what would Stan have to hide?" Mabel asks digging through the box, soon pulling out a newspaper article before going silent. Noticing her distraught expression I take the paper and read out loud "Stan Pines Dead?!" I make the same distraught face and Dipper takes the article to read.