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

Not What He Seems: Part 4

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

"Foul play suspected in Pines' death. Firery car crash, breaks cut? By who?" Mabel asks looking over the article again when Dipper pulls out another article with an image of Grunkle Stan trying to hide his face with the caption Grifter at large. "Unnamed grifter at large? Why would they call him unnamed? Unless Stan..." "Isn't..." The twins start to say before we turn to the portrait of "Stan" staring down at us with a smile. "Stan!" We say in unison, disbelief and panic running through us.

"Stan Pines is dead? Then who have we been living with? This doesn't make any sense," I exclaim, pacing the room trying to think of something that would make this all make sense but nothing was coming to mind.

"There has to be some explanation...Maybe we're getting Ker-Prank'd! Justin Kerprank is gonna jump up behind one of these plants any minute now," Mabel says, inching toward a potted plant trying to caox Justin Kerprank out from hiding. "I just can't believe it, we've been looking for answers this whole Summer and the biggest mystery was right under our nose," Dipper says facepalming himself while Mabel dumped the rest of the contents out of the box.

"There's gotta be some kind of explanation in here somewhere," She picks up a piece of paper asking "What the? Secret code to hideout?" We look over it and Dipper starts flipping through the journal with the blacklight. "I've never seen a code like this..." Dipper mutters while I continue to look over it when a sudden flash goes through my mind of Gram clicking five vending machine buttons and it opened. "Wait I have! Guys it's the vending machine!"

Grunkle Stan's p.o.v.

I look at my watch again, I only had one chance to do this right and get back to the shack before these thirteen minutes ended. Just gotta wait a little longer for the next anomaly. That's when Agent Powers and two guards walk in. "Alright Mr. Pines, playtime is over. The chopper's ready to dust off to Washington. I'll enjoy putting you away," What no! I need to be there when it finally happens! I've worked too hard for this and waited five years and I'm not gonna let this prick stop me!

"What? Um can't we stick around for maybe one minute? Uh one minute and thirty seconds?" I ask nervousily, hoping it would catch his attention. "We're not falling for your games Pines," Dang, no dice, I need to stall him.

"You've been running your whole life, your time is finally up," Powers tells me as he goes to unlock my cuffs. I glance at the clock on the wall, just a little longer. "Bathroom break? Just give me fifteen seconds." "Sorry but you've got a flight to catch." Finally my watch starts to beep and I look at him with a smirk.

"Oh yeah? So do you," We're lifted up in the air and I kick the table higher before kicking it into the guards. Everything starts to spin and I slam Powers into the wall, causing him to let go of the keys. Breaking the chair I push against the wall and grab the keys, unlocking the cuffs, stepping on the guards, while stealing a wallet to leave the room. "No, you won't get away with this!" Powers shouts as I shut the door in his face just as the anomaly ended. I rush out of the police station and run up to a taxi asking the driver "You know where the Mystery Shack is?" "Uh yeah?" "Ok, here's a hundred bucks, drive as far away from the shack as possible and don't stop when the cops start chasing you!" The driver shrugs and takes off while I hide behind a car as the agents burst out of the station. "He's getting away! Obviously follow that cab!"