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

A Tale of Two Stans: Part 5

Grunkle Stan's p.o.v.

"Finally I ran out of food, I had no choice but to go into town."

I walk into the Dusk 2 Dawn convenience store and grab the cheapest thing there: a loaf of bread. "Just the bread then stranger? That'll be 99 cents," Digging in my pocket I find nothing but a sugar packet and a paper clip.

"Hey, that's no stranger, that must be the mysterious science guy that lives in the woods," A lady exclaims and people start crowding around me. "uh no you got the wrong guy," I say, pulling my hoodie over my face as the people start gossiping about what was in the shack when something catches my attention. "Gosh, I'd pay anything to see what kind of shenanigans you get up to in there." "Me too! Do you ever give tours?" The lady asks and I shake my head.

"No really I-" I cut myself off when I realize I didn't have any money, and I needed to earn it somehow. "Yes! I do give tours, ten- no, no, fifteen bucks a person!" Cash was suddenly shoved into my face and hands when the lady asks "So what did you say your name was? You man of mystery."

"Oh, Stan...Ford. Stanford Pines," Heading to the shack I let everyone in to see the shack. "Step right up folks to a world of enchantment or whatever," I say before grabbing a strange box and I press the button, and electricity sparks out. "Behold the nerdy science box," The lady whose name was Susan leaned in close her eye soon getting shocked. "Ah! My eye!" 

"I can assure you that is in no way permanent." "I paid fifteen dollars for this?!" She angrily shouts and the crowd gets rowdy. Quickly I dress the skeleton up in vacation clothes, telling everyone "You're lucky you're not part of the last tour group, they never made it out alive~" This pulls them back in and I continued the tour.

"And so I came up with a plan. I couldn't leave my brother's house until I figured out how to save him and Grace but I needed to pay their mortgage somehow. For once in my life people were actually buying what I was selling and so the Murder Hut was born, soon re-named the Mystery Shack. Finally, I found something I was good at. For once being a liar and a cheat paid off. The old me was dead and I faked a car crash to prove it. By the time the Mystery Shack really kicked off I was met with another surprise, Shelli had brought me (y/n) and from thaT day she started living with me. By day I was Mr. Mystery but by night I was down in the basement trying to bring the real Stanford back and (y/n)'s Gram.  couldn't risk anyone learning the truth and sabotaging my mission so I lied to everyone, the town, my family, your parents, your aunt, even you kids."

I finally finish telling my story and (y/n) speaks up. "So all this time you were just trying to save your brother and your friend, my Aunt," She comes up and hugs me while Dipper apologizes. "I'm so sorry we didn't believe you."

 "That's ok kid, I probably wouldn't have believed me either," I admit when we suddenly hear the agents upstairs. "I heard talking, it came from downstairs!" "Oh no, it's too late, the agents are coming!" "What do we do?!"

Mabel asks while Soos comments about being spellbound our tale that he forgot about the agents. "Wait...Forget, that's it! I think I know a way we might be able to defeat those agents," Dipper exclaims pulling out the memory-erasing gun and I nod. "Yes! If we can send out a massive wave, they'll forget all the strange things that's happened this Summer!"

"Of course! I don't know how you got a hold of one of these but this is perfect!" Ford says, taking the gun and we all go to the lab where a telescope is pulled out from behind some tree bark as Ford and Grace start connecting some wires.

"If we can just amplify the signal to a radio headset frequency..." Grace mumbles before finishing and Ford looks through the telescope screaming "There. Now everyone plug your ears. Get down NOW!" We all crouch down while covering our ears.