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

Take Back the Falls: Part 4

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

We all stare at Grunkle Stan and frown before watching in amazement as all of Bill's weirdness disappears through the tear in the sky, the town returning to its normal state. "Oh my gosh, Grunkle Stan you did it!" Mabel happily exclaims putting his fez on for him when he wakes up, not fully realizing that the Stan we know is gone... "oh hey there kiddo, what's your name?" He anxiously asks pulling her away from him and she gives him a distraught look.

"G-Grunkle Stan?" "Who you talking to?" She starts to tear up. "Come on it's me. It's me, Grunkle Stan! Grunkle Stan, it's me!" Mabel shouts and Dipper and I had to pull her away from him as Gram explains. "We...We had to erase his mind to defeat Bill, it's all gone..." "Stan has no idea but he did it. He saved the world. He saved me...You're our hero Stanley," Ford sniffles out as he pulls his brother in for a hug, Grace soon joining while Dipper hugged his sister and me all of us crying.

After we all manage to calm down a bit we lead Stan back to the shack which had been put back but it was in more shambles than we all cared for. "Hey, this is a real nice place you got here," Grunkle Stan comments as we lead him inside to the living room. "It's your place, Grunkle Stan." "Don't you remember? Even a little?" The twins tell him but still, nothing came from it as we watched Stan sit down. "Nope but this chair sure hugs my butt like it remembers," He then notices all of our distraught faces. "Hey, why the long faces? You're acting like you're at someone's funeral. Who's that big guy crying in the corner?" He asks us and we all look towards Soos who was crying his eyes out and I hug him, understanding his pain, Grunkle Stan was the closest thing we had to a father.

"He saved the world but what's the point? Grunkle Stan's not himself anymore..." Dipper trails off and Mabel looks towards Gram and Ford exclaiming "There's gotta be something we can do to jog his memory!" "I'm sorry but there isn't Stan is gone," Gram tries to break it to Mabel who shouts in her face "I know my Grunkle is in there somewhere!" I soon join in yelling out "We're in a literal town where anything is possible if all the creatures we've seen and fought before can exist then there has to be a way to bring back Stan! I'll help you find it, Mabel."

She gives me a smile before we start looking around before Mabel finds her memory book and runs to Grunkle Stan, showing him the contents inside. "This'll work! It has to work! Here's the first day we came to Gravity Falls Grunkle Stan, and here's a macaroni interpretation of my emotions!" We crowd around Stan as he helplessly looks at the photos on each page. "That time we went fishing?" "The fifth year in a row you claimed to be the Master of Fright for Summerween? Don't you remember anything?" Dipper and I chime in and sadly Stan shakes his head. "I'm sorry, I dunno what this is or who you are or- GAH!" He was cut off by Waddles who had hoped up and started licking Grunkle Stan and gets up to remove the pig from his face stating "Quit it Waddles I'm trying to remember my life story!" This catches all our attention and we gasp, Dipper asking "What did you say?"

"I said get Waddles off of me!" "It's working, keep reading!" Ford declares and Soos points at his page. "Skip to my page he needs to remember our boss-employee relationship." "Hey just cuz I have amnesia don't go trying to give yourself a raise Soos," With that, we continue to look through Mabel's memory book and soon enough Grunkle Stan was back with a big group hug warning him not to scare us like that again.

"Good morning Gravity Falls! It's another beautiful day but every day is beautiful now that the...Unpleasantness is over," Shandra says in the news report soon talking about how we were slowly returning to normalcy before cutting to Mayor Tyler's speech: "None of us understand what just happened and none of us want to. That's why I'm passing the Nevermind All That Act. Now if anyone goes asking around about the "events" of the last few days what do we say? Never mind all that!" The screen then switches to Northwest Manor as a "For Sale" sign goes over the gates. "In other news, the Northwest family has gone broke after pledging his allegiance to Bill and then placing all his savings in weirdness bonds Preston Northwest had to sell his mansion to preserve his family fortune. But fortunes have also turned for local maniac Fiddleford McGucket who after regaining his sanity has made millions overnight selling his patents to the U.S. government."

We're then shown a clip of Fiddleford buying the Northwest manor. "In other good news town hero Stanley Pines has fully recovered his memory and will be throwing a party to celebrate his niece and nephew's thirteenth birthday and final day in town. But other than that I can safely say our beloved Gravity Falls is back to normal and now Bodacious T with sports."

I turn off the tv and help Gram, Ford, and Grunkle Stan with the last preparations for the twin's party which was right now, delivering them their cake. I walk out with the pink-covered cake decorated with pine trees and shooting stars to the twins as we all start singing happy birthday. "I can't believe you all got together just to throw a party for us," Mabel says happily and Tyler shrugs. "After all the Pines family has done for the town it's the least we could do. You've helped everyone here." "Thanks to ya'll saving us I learned to open my heart to kindness, no more evil doing! From now on I'm gonna try to be Little Gideon, regular ol' kid," I smirk and shake my head in amusement knowing that he had stopped being mean and exacting revenge on others, even going so far as putting on regular clothes doing regular kid activities if someone angered him he had his jail mates take care of them. Oh well, baby steps I guess.