It was the late afternoon in Gravity Falls, and with it being the afternoon, it also meant that tourism at the Mystery Shack was winding down. Everyone in the gift shop was left lounging around, due to no one coming in, and Stan hadn't ordered them to do anything. While Wendy was reading a magazine, Mabel was spinning on a globe, Lynn was doing soccer moves near her, and Lincoln was looking at some of the gift shop stuff. Soos, Bobby and Lana were working or fixing up various sections of the gift shop, while the others were off doing various things.
Dipper was once again reading the Journal, ever since he and Lincoln found it in the woods, he had been reading it nonstop. He was on a particular section that had caught his interest.
"Hey guys, do you believe in ghosts?"
Lincoln thought about it, and then said," Well my time watching ARRGH and other ghost hunting shows have made me interested in them. So maybe."
He wasn't going to mention the time him and Clyde's faith in ARRGH was shaken during that one time the show came to Royal Woods. He was still shocked that him and Hunter soon encountered a real one, after helping Clyde believe again.
"Besides Lucy, no." Lynn said.
"I believe you're a big dork." Mabel said.
"Ha! Yeah, the biggest. Nice one sis." Lynn said and Mabel giggled.
Dipper casually used his pencil to stop the globe Mabel was on. The abrupt motion caused her to fall off and land on Lynn.
Dipper chuckled, but Lynn then retaliated by throwing the ball, and it hit the back of his head.
"Haha! Got you bro!" Lynn said with a laugh.
"Yeah, yeah, very funny." Dipper said as Lincoln helped him up, and he dusted himself off.
Stan came from outside and said," Soos, Bobby, Wendy, Lana! Front and center."
Soos and Bobby sprinted over to their boss, and they both said," What's up, Mr. Pines!"
"I'm headin' out. You four are gonna wash the bathrooms, right?"
"Yes, sir!" The cousins said.
Lana looked excited, and said," You bet Grunkle Stan!"
"Absolutely not." Was Wendy's response.
"Ha, Ha! The rest of you, do whatever you all were doing earlier. And stay out of trouble." Grunkle Stan said and left.
Lana brought out her trusty plunger, and took off, with Soos and Bobby following after her. As soon as they were all out of ear and eye-shot, Wendy then got a mischievous look, and walked over to a different part of the Gift Shop.
"Hey guys! What's this?" Wendy said and unveiled a curtain, and a ladder was behind it. "A secret ladder to the roof?"
"I don't think Grunkle Stan will like us ditching work, it's not a good idea." Lynn asked concerned.
Everyone gave her a surprised looks, but she started to laugh, and said," I'm kidding, I'm game."
"Can we actually go up there?" Dipper asked.
Lynn lightly punched her brother and said," C'mon Luke! Don't be chicken!"
Wendy smirked and then smiled and said," C'mon then. Roof time! Roof time!" She said and started climbing.
"C'mon Lynn! Last one up is a rotten egg." Mabel said and ran to the ladder with Lynn after her.
Dipper and Lincoln looked at each and shrugged. They followed after them and they got onto the roof with Wendy, Lynn and Leia. Wendy showed them a spot that had a lawn chair, cooler and a bucket of Pine Cones and an umbrella.
"Did you put all of this stuff up here?" Lucas asked.
"I may or may not sneak up here during work, all the time, everyday." Wendy said and threw a pine cone and hit a target on a Totem Pole. "Yes!"
Lynn scoffed and said," Please, three at once."
She did just that, and all three pine cones hit the target.
"Nice." Wendy said impressed.
Dipper, Mabel, and Lincoln grabbed and threw some pine cones and they missed. the except was for Lucas, who hit a car, and the alarm went off and he blushed in embarrassment.
"Jackpot! High five." Wendy said and held up her hand.
Dipper looked at Wendy and was stuck in a frozen stupor. His siblings noticed this, and immediately knew what was happening and they became amused, but Wendy didn't notice.
"Don't leave me hangin'."
Dipper got out of his trance and high fived her. Wendy looked down and saw a car coming and said," Oh hey, it's my friends!"
A car pulled up and someone waved their hand out and yelled," Wendy!"
"Hey, you guys aren't going to tell Stan about this, are you?"
The twins, Lincoln and Lynn pretended to zip their lips, with Wendy doing the same.
"Thanks. Later dorks!" She said.
She jumped off the roof, grabbed a tree, slid down and got into the car and it drove off.
"Dang, girl knows her Parkour." Lynn said impressed.
"Later Wendy! Heh, heh, heh! Good times!" Dipper said nervously.
"Awww!" His two sisters said, with Lincoln looking both amused and relieved.
At least this time they weren't meddling his love life… and he was glad he thought that, and not said it aloud. Or else he would be on the receiving end of his sisters meddling. Even though they stopped doing that, with the prime example being when he tried to impress Stella when she first moved to Royal Woods. And they told him to be himself, not something he wasn't.
"What?" Dipper said and saw they had smiles.
"Somebody's in love." Mabel said.
"Dip-Drip has a cr-ush." Lynn teased.
"No I don't." Dipper denied.
Mabel poked her twin's chest, and said," Yeppers you are, bro-bro! Just like how Lincoln and Ronnie Anne like each other as well!"
"Yeah like- hey! I don't like her like that! We're friends." Lincoln denied. And then thought of something else. "But this reminds me of when Clyde used to like Lori. Minus the nose bleeds and acting like a robot."
Dipper blushed, rubbed the back of his head and said," Yeah, right! I just think Wendy's cool, okay? It's not like I lie awake at night thinking about her."
Later that night in their room, Lincoln, Mabel and Luna were sleeping, except for Dipper. Who was lying awake, and his sole thought was on a certain redhead.
"Uh-oh." He said in realization.
Later the next day, Dipper still couldn't get Wendy out of his head, no matter how hard he tried. He was starting to understand how Clyde felt about Lori, until he got over it. And he did not envy his brothers best friend one bit. Although he was glad his sisters didn't try to meddle. They did end up talking about it last night and during breakfast, thinking it was cute, but didn't do much after that. And he was sorta grateful for that.
So he did try to distract himself, and he currently was writing something down on his notepad.
Although it was hard due to do that, considering what was going on right now.
"Random dance party for no reason!" Mabel declared. "Luna, hit it!"
"You got it sis." Luna said and started to play her guitar.
"Oh yea, shred it Loud!" Wendy cheered as she and Mabel danced.
Dipper would've watched them, but he would be looking at Wendy as well. So he kept on writing In his notepad.
'I am pretending to write something down.' Was all it said, and Dipper nodded.
"Can you be any more obvious, little brother?" Luan teased as she looked over his shoulder.
Lucas gave his sister a glare, and whispered," Now's not the time."
"Hey, Dipper! You wanna get in on this?"
"Yeah, I, uh, don't really dance." Dipper said.
Luna, Luan and Leia snickered with Luna saying in a teasing tone," Yeah you do bro!" She then looked at Wendy and said. "Mom used to dress him up in a lamb costume and make him do…" Luna didn't finish because she started giggling with Mabel saying.
"The Lamby Dance!" Mabel stage-whispered.
"Now is not the time to talk about the Lamby Dance." Dipper said angrily, even though he knew his sisters wouldn't listen to him.
"Oh yes it is." Luan teased.
Wendy looked interested, and said, "Lamb costume? Wow, is there like a little ears and a tail or…"
Luna got out her phone, did a couple of taps and then showed Wendy a photo of Lucas in a lamb costume and said," Leni ended up making costumes for a play our school was having. Luke saw it, and wanted to try it. It fit perfectly, and he pranced around and sang a song about grazing, and it became a whole thing. It was adorable and hilarious. Lincoln saw it and wanted to do it. It was cute and hysterical!"
Luna remembered that memory fondly, and how their mom did it to Lincoln as well and they had done a duet sometimes. They would all bring it up once in a while, but the two brothers denied it every time and wanted to forget the most embarrassing part of their lives.
Further talk about it made Dipper blush in embarrassment. It did not help that the person finding this out was the girl he was crushing on.
Before Wendy could say something, her phone started to beep and then said," Hey, look at that! Quittin' time! Luna, Luan remember you said you guys wanted to tag along."
"Yep, let's head out ma'am." Luan said with joking salute and giggled.
"Right, see you dudes later." Luna said and they both started to walk out.
"Wait! Why don't Mabel and I come with you guys?" Dipper asked.
Luna and Luan were momentarily surprised by that, but then realized the motive. They both smiled a little, knowing what was going on but Wendy didn't notice.
"Ooh… I don't know. My friends are pretty intense. How old did you and Mabel say you were?" Wendy asked.
"We're thirteen! So technically teens."
Luna rolled her eyes playfully and mouthed 'liar' behind Wendy and she winked at him. While Luan giggled a little.
"All right, I like your moxy, kid. Let me get my stuff." Wendy said and left.
"Wait, since when are we thirteen? Is it a leap year?" Mabel asked herself aloud.
"Come on, Mabel. It's a chance for us to hang out with the cool kids. And Wendy or whatever." Dipper said.
Luna and Luan squealed with Luna saying," Aw! You just want to hang out with your crush, Luke, how sweet. Your lucky Lori is out on a date with Bobby. Or else she wouldn't want you doing this."
"Yeah, or else she'll literally not be pleased." Luan said with a laugh, due to using the word Lori used a lot.
Mabel giggled, and then said to her brother," So that does mean you love her! Why else would you do that! Love, love, love. Love!"
Lucas got tired of her teasing, and pointed in a different reaction while saying," Hey, what's that?"
Mabel looked in the direction, and Dipper flipped his twins hair over her face. But she soon started to make noises through her hair.
Dipper wished Lincoln was here, so he could be his wingman. But Lori and Bobby had dragged him and Ronnie Anne on a double date. It still amused him about how Lincoln and Ronnie Anne kept denying they weren't a thing.
Luna rolled her eyes with amusement, and said," C'mon bro, you're not going to woo your girl by standing here."
"Yeah she woo-uld not like that. Haha!" Luan laughed along with Mable, while their other two siblings groaned.
The four of them walked outside, just as Wendy threw a Jelly Bean directly into the belly button of one of her friends. They were momentarily surprised, but smiled when they saw her and greeted her.
"Wendy!"
"Hey guys! You already know Luna and I believe I mentioned her sister Luan. These other two are their other siblings, and my pals from work, Mabel and Dipper.
"I chewed my gum so it looks like a brain! Blah!" Mabel said as she stuck her tongue out to show wad of chewed up gum.
"She's not much for first impressions. Unlike this guy!" Dipper said as he pointed to himself, but all he got was silence. "This guy…"
"So are you like babysitting or-" One of Wendy's friends asked.
"I'm not Robbie. Guys, this is Lee and Nate."
Lee and Nate punched each other and laughed.
"Tambry."
"Hey." The girl in question said while she texted on her phone.
"Thompson, who once ate a run over waffle for 50 cents."
"Don't tell them that." Thompson said nervously.
"And Robbie. You can probably figure him out."
"Yeah, I'm the guy who spray-painted the water tower." Robbie said nonchalantly.
"Oh you mean the giant muffin." Dipper said.
Robbie looked offended and said, "Um, no it's a giant explosion."
Everyone looked at the Water Tower, which had a spray painted explosion on it. But once they got a good look at it, it did look like a muffin.
"Hehe! Kinda does look like a muffin!" Lee snickered with Nate laughing.
Luan laughed, and said," Don't worry Robbie, there's muffin to be ashamed of." She joked and both Lee and Nate laughed harder.
"Nice one!" Lee praised.
Robbie glared at Dipper with him shrinking a little. Luna then narrowed her eyes at Robbie, to challenge him, but he didn't do anything.
Luna leaned over to her brother and whispered," Robbie's a little rough around the edges bro. If he messes with you, let me know."
"Let's hurry it up, guys; I got big plans for tonight!" Wendy said and everyone and they all got into the car.
Dipper was about to ride in the front passenger seat and then saw Robbie had already gotten there.
"Sorry kid, I'll ride shotgun alright?"
Dipper sighed and got into the back with sisters.
Before driving Thompson looked at everyone and said, "Okay, just before we go, my mom said you guys aren't allowed to punch the roof anymore, so…"
Everyone except Thompson started punching the roof while shouting his name, in which he sighed and started driving.
Mabel took Dipper's pen and started writing something on her door that had other writing on it. She finished and the original writing 'You stink!' was crossed out and was replaced with 'You look nice today!'
"Ha! This is gonna blow someone's mind!" She said aloud.
"Mabel please!"
"What, am I embarrassing you in front of your new GIRLFRI-"
Dipper slapped a hand on his sister's mouth and glared at her. He then recoiled and pulled his hand away when he felt something wet.
"Did you lick my hand?" He asked annoyed, and then glared at Luna and Luan, who were giggling.
Meanwhile back at the shack, after closing down the shack for the day, Grunkle Stan was about kick back, relax and watch mind numbing television. But he stopped when he saw Lola and Leni come in with bowl of popcorn, and Lola took the remote.
"What? Hey! What's the big idea?" Stan said.
"Sorry Grunkle Stan, there's a period movie called The Duchess Approves. And I'm not going to miss it." Lola said.
"Yeah, like I saw some of the clothes they wear, and they are nice for the time period." Leni said.
"Give me back the remote! I would get up and grab it from you but I refuse to stand up. Also this is my TV, so keeper's rights!" Stan said.
Both girls ignored their Great Uncle, as Lola changed the channel, and the announcement for the movie came on.
"Now for the Friday night movie on the black and white period piece old lady boring movie channel! The Duchess Approves, staring Sturly Stembleburgiss as "The Duchess" and Grampton St. Rumpterfrabble as irascible coxswain "Saunterblugget Hampterfuppinshire!"
"NOOOO!" Stan yelled in despair.
Back with everyone else, the place Wendy had Thompson drive to was an abandoned Convenience Store, and had a chain link fence around it to keep out trespassers. Except it would keep this particular group of people out
"There it is fellas. The condemned Dusk 2 Dawn." Wendy said as everyone got out, and looked beyond the fence.
"Wicked." Luna said.
"Ha! Cool!" Both Lee and Nate said.
Dipper looked nervous and said, "Why'd they shut it down, was it like a health code violation, or-"
"Try murder!" Nate said.
"Some folks died in there, the place has been haunted ever since!" Lee said.
"This town has such a colorful history!" Mabel happily said, not bothered by the backstory.
Luan blinked and said," Dang that dark, if only Lucy was here. She would love this place."
Dipper gulped and said," Wa… are you guys serious?"
"Yeah! We're all gonna die!" Wendy said in fake fear and then lightly punched his shoulder and said," Chill out man! It's not as bad as it looks."
Wendy then started to climb the fence, with everyone else following her. They all made it fine, with the exception of Dipper, who was having trouble at the top of the fence.
"Come on, Luke! You can do it!" Luna said.
"Okay, okay! Just gotta get a foothold."
"Dude, your sisters did it!" Robbie said, and pointed at them, with the most noticeable thing being Mabel running on the ground on her side in a circle.
"Yeah bro, don't be on the fence about it!" Luan joked.
Lee climbed up behind Dipper and said," Hey, you know what. Just… there you go." He said as he pushed Dipper off the fence and he fell onto the ground on his stomach.
"Hey, what was that for?" Luna glared at Lee.
"Yeah, not funny." Luan said with a rare frown.
Lee looked both nervous and apologetic as he dropped down and said, "Ha! S-sorry dude!"
"Good job throwing the kid off the fence, genius!" Nate teased.
"Your mom's a genius." Lee lightly shot back.
Once all of them were on the other side of the fence, they all looked through the front glass doors.
"Wow! This place is amazing!" Wendy marveled at what she saw inside.
"Creepy and abandoned, yep, Luce would be right at home." Luan joked.
Robbie tried the door but it wouldn't budge.
"Dang it, it's stuck." He said.
"Let me take a crack at it" Dipper suggested.
Robbie had a raised eyebrow and then said sarcastically," Oh yeah. I can't get in, but I'm sure Junior here is gonna break it down like Hercules."
"Come on, leave him alone. He's just little kid." Wendy said, trying to defend him.
Lucas walked around to a dumpster, jumped on it and then walked on the roof. Everyone was wondering what he was doing and his sisters were worried about him but then had pick up their jaws from the floor when Lucas started to punch the vents and then managed to get inside.
"Wow, didn't know our bro had it in him." Luna said surprised, and Luan nodded.
"Who wants to bet he doesn't make it?" Robbie mocked.
He soon ate those words when he heard the door open. He turned around to see Dipper had successfully made it inside, and opened the doors. Dipper was pleased by the shocked expression from Robbie, but he was even more amused by the shocked and impressed looks he got from his sisters
"What? I have my moments, c'mon let's go inside." He said with a smile.
"Good call inviting this little maniac!" Lee praised.
"Your new name is Dr. Funtimes!" Nate said as he walked passed Dipper.
Luna ended up ruffling up her little brothers head. Dipper readjusted his hat, and walked in after everyone, and the doors closed behind him.
What no one noticed was the sign outside went from 'Yes, we're open' to 'Get lost! We're closed'.
Everyone looked around the room in awe. Instead of everything being gone, all the merchandise from when it first shut down was still there. Although it was all covered in a thick layer of dust, cobwebs and various small bugs were crawling around. But no one seemed to mind or notice.
"Wow, it's even creepier than I imagined!" Wendy said in awe.
"Your right Luan, Lucy would really like it here." Dipper said as he looked around.
Mabel wiped some dust off the counter, and licked it. "Yep it's dust."
Luna looked grossed out, and said," I should've seen that coming. Only you and Lana would do something like that sis."
"Hey dude, where do you think they keep the dead bodies?" Lee asked.
Nate laughed, shoved him, and said," Shut up, man!"
Wendy walked around , and she then found the light switches. "Hey guys check it out! You think these still work?"
She flipped the switches and all the lights came on. Everyone looked in awe at everything.
"So, what are we going to do now?" Dipper asked.
"Anything we want." Wendy said with a smirk.
Everyone proceeded to have fun in the store. Everyone was throwing things at each other, with Luan finding some balloons, filled them up and tossed them at everyone. They all then sat in a circle and popped mints into a Soda bottle and exploded with everyone cheering. Luna was to be shredding her guitar, and everyone dancing around, while Robbie snapped his finger and bobbed his head.
Mabel ran around a corner, and gasped at what she found," Oh my Gosh! Smile Dip! I thought this stuff was banned in America!"
"Maybe they had a good reason." Dipper supplied, but he then got hit in the face by a balloon filled with food and ran off while laughing.
Mabel didn't heed what her twin said, and proceeded to pour the entire package into her mouth.
Later both Dipper and Wendy were sitting on shelf, and they were eating some ice pops.
"Hey, come here, man, we got it ready!" Nate yelled.
"Whatever it is, I'll do it!" Thompson yelled as he ran over to him.
Wendy laughed, and said," Thompson! Dipper, this night is like, legendary."
"Really?"
"Just look around. The guys are bonding, and so is Luan."
Nate pulled back Thompson pants, while Lee poured ice into it, while Thompson laughed along with them.
Luan at that and then said," Dang Thompson, your sure looking cool."
Lee laughed, and said," Man, your puns are pretty good. So, do you want to do anything later?"
Luan winced, she rubbed the back of her neck, and said," That sounds nice… but I already have a boyfriend, his name is Benny. Sorry. But friends?" She said and held out her hand.
Lee looked saddened, but said," Yeah sure." He then shook her hand, but he yelped when he got shocked.
Luan laughed and held up her hand, which had a joy buzzer. The other guys laughed, and Lee did as well.
"I've never seen Tambry look up from her phone this long." Wendy said and it was shown Tambry only looked up for a second.
Dipper chuckled and said," You should see Lori. She's probably the Queen of being on her phone all the time."
Wendy chuckled and said," Yeah, I would love to see she and Tambry in competition related to that. Also Luna and Robbie looked to be getting along."
Luna and Robbie were shown to be talking about music, while looking at some old magazines
"Eh, I'm not much into Mick Swagger. I'm more into the heavier type of music." Robbie said.
Luna nodded, and said," It's cool, but you ever visit Royal Woods myself and my band mates will take you to a concert, and also to play some tunes."
Robbie nodded and said," I'll hold you to that Loud."
"And your sister seems to be going nuts with that Smile Dip."
It was shown that Mabel had eaten a couple dozen packets of Smile Dip. And she seemed to think she was holding something, while chewing on air. Whatever was happening, she was having quite the trip.
"You know Dipper, I wasn't sure if you could hang with our crew at first, but you're surprisingly mature for you age." Wendy said impressed.
Dipper felt ecstatic on what she said and he tried not to look overly joyful and then said," Yes, yes I am." He said and smeared on the ice cream on his face because he was staring at her.
"Hey guys! We need more ice!" Lee said.
"I'm on it!" Dipper said and ran to get some more ice after he got down from the shelf.
He walked to the freezer, opened it and got the bag of ice, but something caught his eye and he looked up. His eyes widened in terror to see a monster of sorts that looked like a detached brain with veins and eyes. Its eyes got closer to him, he screamed and shut the door as fast as he could and then opened it again and found nothing.
"What was that? I thought I heard some lady screaming back here." Lee said as everyone, minus Mabel went to check on what happened.
"You freakin' out, kid?" Nate said.
"Uh, no. I'm cool. Everything's cool." Lucas said.
"Then what's all this about?" Robbie said and pointed at the spilled ice.
"That's um uh… hey look! Dancy Pants Revolution! The game that tricks people into exercising!" Lucas said and pointed at the game.
Everyone shrugged and went to check it out but Luna and Luan stayed because she was worried for her brother.
Luna got on her knee and put a hand on her brother's shoulder and said," Are you ok Dip?"
Dipper looked around and said," I'm not sure what I saw, but I'm pretty sure I just saw some scary brain creature in the freezer."
Luna and Luan looked at each with concerned looks, and they opened the freezer, but didn't find anything. They had a feeling their brother wasn't lying or making a joke. With the amount of crazy stuff happening to them since coming to Gravity Falls, they became more open minded to more obscure or weird things that could or had happened.
"Well bro we believe you. We had the time of our lives, so I think we should skedaddle." Luna said. [1]
"Yeah, as much fun as this was. We should probably go, and I'm not joking." Luan said.
Dipper was glad that his sister believed him. Although the less rational side of his brain brought up a good point.
"Although… maybe I was hallucinating? I mean, we did throw expired food at each other earlier." He tried to reason.
Luna and Luan gave him raised brows, with Luna looking at the others, who were too busy watching Thompson dance, and then said," Bro, I get your trying to impress your crush. But I think our lives are more important than that."
Lucas knew Luna had a point, as much as he wanted to impress Wendy, he knew the current possible haunting was more important. "Okay but, would they believe us if we told them? I mean, lets figure out a way to get them out of here with the whole ghost thing."
Both girls nodded, and the three of them walked over to everyone, as they watched Thompson play.
"Dance! Hurry up!" The game said.
"Go! Go! Go! Go!" Lee and Nate cheered.
"Wow. He's really terrible at this." Wendy said in an amused tone.
"Heh, heh, yeah. That's great." Dipper nervously said.
He looked at the glass doors and eyes widened in shock. His and everyone's skeletons were showing with their clothes on and nothing else. He rubbed is eyes and they all looked normal. He looked at Luna and Luan, and they had similar looks of fear.
"Wow, I looked bad to the bone." Luan said with an uneasy chuckle.
"Um… now's a good time to bail." Luna said with a gulp.
Wendy looked at them, thinking she heard them say something," Huh?"
"We'll be right back." Dipper said and went to find a telephone, he would've used his phone but he left that back at the shack.
"No dice, my phone doesn't have a signal." Luna said and Luan nodding as well, having similar issues.
Dipper tried the phone in the store, but no one was answering, "C'mon Grunkle Stan, pick up! Ugh, what is everyone doing?"
Back at the Shack Stan had found himself invested in the movie that his Grandnieces were watching. He thought it was utter garbage at first, but as time went on, he was enjoying it. Besides him, Lori, Lincoln, who had came back from their date/hang out with Bobby and Ronnie Anne, as well as surprisingly Lucy were watching it as well. Lynn, Lisa and Lana weren't interested in watching the movie, and doing their own things.
"I don't care about Dukes, or Commoners, or His Royal Highness Lionel of Cornwall! I'm not afraid anymore, Mother!"
"Yes! You go Duchess, make something of yourself!" Lori cheered and wiped her eye because a tear was there.
"She's finding herself, that takes courage." Lincoln said with a nod.
"Duchess, I forbid you." Duchess's Mother said sternly.
"As much as I appall movies like this, unless it has to do with vampire love. But the inner turmoil the Duchess has been going through speaks to me." Lucy said.
"I may be a Duchess, but… I'm also a woman!" Duchess said and took off her hat and hair flying in the wind and she had a determined and confident look.
"Yes! Yes! In your face Elizabeth! It just like my life!... In a way." He sadly said, and everyone looked at him weirdly.
Lori blinked at her Great Uncle's outburst, but brushed it off when she realized something," Hey, has anyone heard from the others? They've been gone for a while. Luna's last text told me they were still out a couple of hours ago."
"Their fine Lori, shush." Lola dismissed. "I want to know what the Duchess will do."
After no one answered their calls, the three Loud siblings were figuring out how to get out of the cursed and haunted convenience store. Before they were going to tell the others, they were missing a sibling. So they went over to where they saw Leia last.
"Leia, this is bad. We need to get out of here, this place is haunted." Dipper said as he approached his twin.
"Man, if only Lucy was here, she would know what to do." Luna lamented.
"Too bad Dippy here is too chicken to say it outright in front of everyone, especially Wendy." Luan quipped, but winced at the looks. "Right, bad time."
"Ugh, what do you think Mabel?" He asked.
They then noticed the out of body or trancelike state their sister was in.
Luna slapped her forehead, and said," Ah crud, dudes! She went into a sugar high! Y'know how wonky she gets."
They then heard Robbie, who was standing behind the counter, call for everyone to see something. Once they did, they either gasped or looked shocked at the crime scene tape that outlined two bodies.
"Ok, that is freaky." Luna said with a gulped.
"So the rumor's are true!" Lee said.
"Dude, I dare you to lie down in it." Robbie said to Lee.
"Good idea. Go lie down in it." Lee said to Nate.
Nate chuckled and said," I'm a dead body, look!"
"Wait! Maybe let's not do that." Lucas said.
"This guy's scared!" Lee teased.
"All I'm saying is, why tempt the fates? I mean… what if this place really is… haunted?"
Luan nodded, and said," Yeah I'm all for fun and jokes, but this could be bad."
"Boo! Ah c'mon!" Both Lee and Nate said.
"Yeah take it down a notch, buzzkills." Robbie said.
"I thought I was Dr. Funtimes." Lucas said in disappointment.
"Well, you and your sister are acting like Captain Buzzkills right now." Robbie said.
Luna narrowed her eyes, and said," How's about you mind your own business dude."
Wendy got between them, and said," Alright guys, lets cool it. I get it; this place may be a little spooky. But I think you might be overreacting Dipper."
Tambry added fuel to the fire by saying while texting," Status update: Trapped in a store with insane 9 year old."
Dipper got fed up, and with both peer pressure and not wanting the others to see him as a wimp. He then said angrily," I'm not a 9-year old! I'm 13! So technically a teen." He said and lied down on the tape markings.
Luna looked at him concerned and said, "Uh bro, I don't think-"
Before she could finish, the tape markings started to light up. Dipper got up and all the lights flickered and then went out. Everyone then looked around, but were shocked when they saw Tambry glowed and then disappeared. Her phone dropped to the ground, and everyone looked increasingly worried.
Luna picked up the phone and read," Status update: AAAAHHHH!"
Everyone then noticed the security monitor turned on, and they screamed in shock when they saw Tambry trapped in it. She screamed when she realized where she was, and then started to pound her fist on the screen.
"Tambry! Tambry!" Can you hear us?!" Wendy said.
"I-I don't think she can dude!" Luna said fear.
"What are we supposed to do!?" Nate said in fear.
"I don't know man! I don't know!" Lee said freaking out.
"Let's just go already!" Robbie said.
"Thompson!" Wendy called over to the still dancing teen.
Thompson was still playing the game and said," Wait! I've almost go the high score!"
He then dissolved like Tambry and reappeared in the game. The game started, and Thompson ended up going into a fetal position while the game arrows fell on top of him.
"Thompson!" Wendy said again in shock.
"Forget them! Let's go!" Robbie and ran to the door but it closed.
Wendy and Luna tried to open it but it wouldn't budge.
"It won't open… It won't open!" Luna said in terror.
"OUTTA MY WAY!" Robbie screamed and threw the cash register at the doors but it dissolved in a flash of green light.
"Everybody, wait! Whatever's doing this has to have some kind of reason!" He said as he brought out the journal. "Maybe if we can figure out what it is, they'll let us out of here!"
"Uh-uh they'll let us out of here! Yeah, that makes a lot of sense!" Robbie said sarcastically.
"I should listen to him dude. He knows his stuff… we should've had Lucy with us." Luna said, and Luan nodded.
"Yeah right, I'm sure the ghost wants to talk about his feelings!" Lee said sarcastically.
He then dissolved and reappeared on the cover of a cereal box.
"I'm bonkers for eating you alive!" The Cereal box Toucan said as it scooped up Lee with its spoon.
Nate looked on in horror and fear and said," Lee! Okay… I'm with you kid! 100%, man!"
"Welcome." A deep voice said.
Everyone turned around and screamed to see Mabel floating in the air, with a glowing light blue aura and white pupils.
"They got Mabel!" Dipper and Luan cried in shock.
"Welcome to your graves, young trespassers." It said and laughed.
"We're super sorry for hanging out in your store!" Wendy said.
"Yeah! Can we just go now and leave forever?" Dipper said and Luna nodded.
The ghost thought for a second and said," Well. Okay. Your free to go… [opened the doors]…. But for you leave, hot dogs are now half off. I know it might be crazy, but you gotta try these dogs!" It said cheerfully.
Both Nate and Robbie screamed and ran for the door but the ghost closed it and said," Just kidding about the hot dog sale!"
Nate was getting angry and Robbie was holding him back with Nate saying," Just let us out of here already."
"I don't like your tone!" The ghost said and Nate dissolved.
Everyone looked to see Nate appear as a Hot Dog and was on the Hotdog stand cooking and he screamed in terror.
"Man he's one hot dog." Luan joked nervously, and then said to the others, who were giving her looks," I joke when I'm nervous okay?"
"Then you'll like this joke!" The ghost said and snapped its fingers.
Luan disappeared, and then reappeared has a hotdog alongside Nate.
"Misery likes company." Luan said.
"Yep," Nate said, and they then screamed in terror.
"It begins. Welcome to your home for all eternity!" The ghost said and made everything float to the ceiling.
"Dipper, Luna, what do we do?!" Wendy said.
"DUCK!" Both siblings said.
All three of them ducked when a flying shelf came at them, and then they ran to a turned over ice machine and hid in there and panted.
Luna was shaking, and looked to be on a verge of a panic attack. "Alright, I'm freaking out dudes! I'm-"
Dipper shook Luna a little and said sternly," Luna, get a hold of yourself! Just breath."
"How can I? There are ghosts haunting this place! They possessed Mabel, and trapped the others! And we might be stuck here forever!"
"We'll figure this out. We need to find a pattern here. And try to reason and talk with them like Lucy normally does. Why was each person taken? Tambry was texting, Thompson was playing a video game, Lee was being sarcastic, Nate wanted to fight and Luan made a impromptu joke. It doesn't make any sense!"
"Yeah! I mean, those are just normal teenage things." Wendy shrugged.
Dipper raised a brow at that, and said, "Wendy, say that last part again."
"Normal teenage things?" Wendy said confused.
Dipper had a look of realization. "Of course! You guys stay here until I get back!"
Lucas crawled out and went to get the ghost attention. Luna got out as well, not wanting her little brother to face the ghost alone.
"Hey ghost!" Dipper yelled.
The ghost twisted Mabel's head around to face Dipper, then turns the rest of her body towards him.
"Sick, just like in the movies." Luna said both grossed out and in awe.
"I've got something to tell you! I'm not a teenager!"
The ghost dropped everything back onto the floor, and two ghosts appeared who turned out to be an old elderly couple with name tags, Ma and Pa. Pa was the one who was ho were holding Mabel by the hair.
"Why didn't you say so?" Pa said and dropped Mabel.
"WAAH!" She fell on the floor where the Smile Dip was and groaned.
"How old did you say you were?" Pa asked kindly.
"I'm… I'm twelve, technically not a teen." Dipper said reluctantly.
"When we were alive. Teenagers were a scourge on our store!" Ma said angrily.
"Always sassafrassin' costumers with their boomy boxes and disrespectful short pants! So we decide to up and ban them. But they retaliated with this new fangled rap music." Pa said.
"The lyrics were so hateful! It was so shocking, that we were stricken down with double heart attacks! And that's we hat teenagers so much! Don't we, honey?" She said the last part brightly and the both of them nuzzle.
Luna raised a brow and said," I don't know dude, that seems like an overreaction. Yes, some of us can be a bunch of jerks. But we're not all bad. Also, it's not like we all knew about this place being haunted by you two. Is there any chance you'll forgive us, and let us go?"
"Yeah, what my sister said. She may look like a rule breaking, rocker punk."
"Hey!"
"But she's pretty cool and isn't like the teenagers you knew back then. Heck, even I know two teens who are pretty responsible." Dipper explained further..
Pa looked surprised by what the Loud's said, and said," Hmm, you do raise a good points you two. Well, we were resting quite fine before you lot barged in here. But there is one thing you can do to free everybody. Do either of you know any funny dances?"
Dipper looked around nervously and said," Uh, is there anything else I can do?"
Pa bursts into flames, and took on a more demon look and said," NOOOO!"
"Bro, it's life or death! Do it!"
"OKAY, OKAY, OKAY! Um… Well, I do know…. The Lamby Lamby Dance. Bu-but I can't really do it, without a lamb costume!" Dipper said happy and folds his arms.
Pa snapped his fingers and Dipper was in a lamb costume.
Dipper sighed and then said," Oh well, there it is. Welll… Who want a lamby lamby? I do! I do! So go up and greet you mammy, mammy, mammy! Hi there! Hi there! So march, march, march around the daisies."
"Yes, yes! More! More!" Pa said, finding the dancing adorable.
Luna was trying very hard not to laugh at what her brother was doing, even though she felt bad he was doing some pretty humiliating. Wendy meanwhile, couldn't believe what was happening, she was grinning ear-to-ear and trying to not to laugh so she save some dignity for Dipper.
"Don't, don't you forget about the babies!" Dinner finished with a wink.
Pa and Ma smiled with Pa saying," That was some fine, girly dancin' boy! Your friends are free." He said, and the front doors opened.
Dipper was then back in normal clothes and said," Well I don't think you have to worry about us coming back so…"
Ma and Pa disappeared, and once they did, everything fell back to the floor. Everyone was turned back, and looked around confused.
"I'm glad you guys are okay!" Luna said as she helped Luan up.
"Oh boy, I really got to remember to say my jokes at the right time. Also I think I have a fear of hotdogs now." Luan said with a shiver.
"Ugggh… I'm never gonna eat or do anything ever again." Mabel said with a groan, as she held her stomach.
Dipper picked up and showed Mabel another Smile Dip and said," Hey! There's still another one left."
His twin's response was to slap it out of his hand while yelling," EVIL!"
"What, what happened after everything went crazy?" Lee asked Wendy.
"You're not going to believe it! The ghosts appeared and Dipper had to." She glanced at Dipper and Luna, the former had a pleading look, while the latter gave her a raised eyebrow. Knowing what she had to do, Wendy came up with, Uh, Dipper just grabbed a bat, and just started beating ghosts down, left and right and the ghosts got scared, and ran away like a couple of little girls, it was insane!"
Everyone voiced their approval over the matter and congratulated Dipper. Wendy zipped her lips at Dipper and he did the same.
Luan leaned over to Luan and whispered," Is that really what happened?"
"I'll explain later." Luna whispered back.
Later on that morning, everyone had already left the store, and were sleeping in the van. Due to both how long their night was, and to relax after the stressful night they had. Except for Wendy, Luna, Luan and Dipper.
"Man, we always were skeptical of Lucy's whole talking to ghost thing. But she's going to be jealous she wasn't here." Luna said, and Luan nodded.
"Well, I don't know about you guys, but I'm probably scarred for life." Wendy said.
"Yeah, that was crazy." Dipper agreed. "Also, about me lying about my age? I just thought you and the others wouldn't take me seriously if I told you my real one."
"It's fine dude, you pretty much saved our lives. So that makes you cool in my book. Hey, next time we hang out, let's long at the Mystery Shack. Okay?" Wendy asked.
Dipper chuckled nervously and said," Next time? Yeah, let's, hang out at the shack! Yeah."
Wendy didn't seem to notice it, but she climbed into the car.
Luna ruffled her brother's hair, and said," You just scored some major points, bro."
"Yeah, and don't feel bad about wanting to stay in there earlier. Believe me, myself and the others have done dumb things for our crushes." Luan said.
Dipper smiled at the praise his sisters gave him, and they climbed into the car, and Thompson soon drove off.
'Man, the others won't believe what happened. Lincoln and Lucy will be so jealous.' He thought.
Back at the shack, after a long journey watching all the twists, turns, heartbreak and other stereotypical movie watching, the ending was upon the movie watchers. The Loud's were at the edge of their seats, with some even shedding tears.
"Ah, the wedding, we've waited so long right kids?" Stan said and everyone agreed.
"That dress is totes beautiful; I'll make one like that for you Lori." Leni said.
Lori gasped, removed a tear from her eye and said," That would literally mean so much to me!" She said and they hugged.
The sound of a door opened on TV, and everyone gasped.
"Count Lionel?!" Everyone said.
"Gasp, an unexpected twist." Lucy said.
"I've come to reclaim my bride!" He said.
"You had your chance at the Cotillion you dirt bag!" Lola yelled. "You can't just come back after she moved on. It's not right!"
Lincoln groaned, and said," I always hated these moments! I thought I only have to deal with stuff like this in my comic book movies!"
"You had your chance at the Cotillion, you!" Someone said on the TV, at the same time Stan did.
"That's what we're saying!" Stan yelled.
Meanwhile outside, the returning Loud's were walking by a window to Shack. They heard loud yelling from inside, and were taken aback when the TV came crashing through the window, and landed on the ground. Stan and the others looked out from the window, with Stan saying.
"Uh, couldn't find the remote." He said and they moved away from the window.