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Chapter 5: The Inconveniencing

Since there’s hardly any tourists coming to the Mystery Shack, everyone takes this time to do either small tasks or even just do whatever they want.

For Dipper, he takes this opportunity to check for any other entries in the journal and update the information in it. He put the full extension on the weaknesses of Gnomes, labeled the Gobblewonker page, which he found the day after the lake incident, as fake, and even discovered information on wax figures. How helpful that could've been, the Pine thinks as he looks for new information. So far, he’s found nothing until he reaches a page on ghosts, which peaks Dipper’s interest.

“Mabel, do you believe in the paranormal?”, he asks his sister, who’s done nothing but spin on the globe that’s on the cashier desk. “I think you’re a para-dork.”, Mabel laughs. In retaliation for the insult, Dipper stuck his pencil against the spinning globe, stopping it in its tracks and sending his sister tumbling to the floor. She gets up, grumbling at her twin brother as he bears a small smile on his face.

Stan bursts through the front door. “Soos! Wendy!” Soos stops sweeping and arrives front and center to his boss, while Wendy takes her time.

“What's up, Mr. Pines!”, Soos reports for duty.

“I'm headin' out.”, Stan answers before he looks at his employees as he leaves. “You two are gonna wash the bathrooms, right?”

“Yes, sir!/Absolutely not!”, the employees give their answers.

“OK. You stay out of trouble.”, Stan laughs before closing the door and leaving. As soon as Stan leaves the Shack, Wendy takes this opportunity to push back curtains to reveal a ladder that heads up to the roof.

“Hey guys! What's this? A secret ladder to the roof?”, Wendy implies.

“Uh, I don't think Mr. Pines would like that.”, Soos says, only for the redhead to put her hand near the ladder repeatingly, much to the repairman’s dismay. “You're freaking me out, dude!”

“Can we actually go up there?”, Dipper asks.

“Sure we can!”, Wendy declares before chanting. “Roof time! Roof time.” The Pine Twins cheer along with the laidback lumberjill as they climb up the ladder with a worried Soos looking up top from down below.

Once they reach the top, Wendy shows them her relaxing spot. “Alright, check it out!”

The twins are amazed by how cool the decoration on the roof of the Shack.

Dipper never realized how Wendy was so good with the decor. “Cool! Did you put all this stuff up here?”

Wendy gives a so-so hand gesture, smugness resonating in her voice. “I may or may not sneak up here during work, all the time, everyday.” She picks up a pinecone and tosses it at the totem pole. “Yes!”

“Cool!/Me first!”, the Twins declare. They take this opportunity to follow the lumberjill and throw multiple pinecones on the target except Dipper misses and hits the top of a car, blaring the alarm.

“Jackpot! High five...”, she cheers only for Dipper but he gets lost to her beauty for a minute. “Don't leave me hangin'.” Dipper snaps out of it and gives a solid hi-five.

Wendy notices the watch on his hand. "Nice watch, dude." The comment makes Dipper blush a little bit. She notices a familiar van coming down. “Oh hey, it's my friends!”

She turns to the Pine Twins with a wary expression. “Hey, you guys aren't going to tell Stan about this, are you?”, the lumberjill asks. Dipper answers by zipping his lips with Wendy following in stereo.

“Later dorks!”, Wendy farewells as she slides down trees and gets into the van.

“Later Wendy”, Dipper laughs, waving away at the van. “Heh heh heh! Good times!”

“Uh, oh!”, Mabel gushes.

“What?”, Dipper asks.

Mabel pokes her twin brother’s cheek, teasingly. “Somebody's in love!”

Dipper jolts in shock before scoffing. “Y-yeah, right! I just think Wendy's cool, okay? It's not like I lie awake at night thinking about her!”

Deep down, Dipper knows that that’s a lie.

o-o-o-o-o-o

“Random dance party for no reason!”, Mabel declares out of nowhere. She and Wendy start dancing, allowing themselves to have fun while Dipper pretends to write on a clipboard. Wendy turns to the seemingly busy Pine. “Dipper!”, she calls out to him, making him jump in surprise and almost dropping the clipboard. “Aren't ya gonna get in on this?”

“Oh, I don't really dance.”, Dipper brushes off, hoping his embarrassing past never sees the light of day. Unfortunately...

“Yeah, you do!”, Mabel responds, ready to tell Wendy. “Mom used to dress him up in a lamb costume and make him do... The Lamby Dance!”

“Mabel, don’t you dare.”, Dipper warns his sister.

“Lamb costume?”, Wendy asks, finding the idea of little Dipper dancing in a lamb costume adorable. “Wow, is there like little ears and a tail or...?”

“Yep”, Mabel answers before pulling out a picture of a young Dipper in a Lamby costume. “And Dipper would prance around and sing a song about grazing.” Dipper is split between combusting from total embarrassment or just locking Mabel in a room for the whole day. His decision making is halted by the sound of the cuckoo clock.

“Hey, look at that!”, Wendy chuckles before heading outside. “Quittin' time! The gang's waitin' for me.”

“Wait!”, Dipper stops her before bluttering out. “Why don't I-or we come with you?”

“Ooh... I don't know.”, Wendy hesitates. “My friends are pretty intense. How old did you guys say you are?”

“Thirteen! We’re technically teens.”, Dipper hastily answers.

“All right. I like your moxie, kid!”, the lumberjill chuckles. “Let me get my stuff.”

“Since when are we thirteen?”, Mabel wonders. “Is this a leap year?”

“Come on, Mabel.”, the Pine reasons. “This is our chance to hang out with, you know, the cool kids.” Dipper looks away from his sister, muttering to himself. “And Wendy and whatever.”

“I knew it! You love her!” Mabel declares as she dances around an annoyed Dipper, pointing at him and singing. “Love, love, love, love, love!”

Dipper points to nowhere. “Oh hey, what's that?”

She turns to where he points. “Huh?” Dipper flips her hair over her face, making her spit it out of her mouth.

“C’mon, let’s go meet Wendy’s friends.”, the shapeshifting Pine tells Mabel, as she flips her hair back and races her brother outside of the Shack. They walk towards the lumberjill, who greets her friends.

“Hey guys! These are my pals from work, Mabel and Dipper.”

“I chewed my gum so it looks like a brain! BLAH!” Sticks out her tongue, which has a wad of gum in said form.

“She's not much for first impressions. Unlike this guy!” Dipper says in confidence as he points at himself. Everyone just stares at him weirdly. “ ...this guy..?”

Robbie stares at the twins, scoffing as he fiddles with his guitar. “Nice watch. It complements the dweeb part of you.", he mocks Dipper’s watch, who looks offended. The young rocker stares at Wendy. “So are you, like, babysitting, or-.”

Wendy punches the guitarist’s arm. “Come on, Robbie!”, she scolds the rocker before introducing her friends to the Pine Twins. “Guys, this is Lee and Nate.” The blonde-African American boy pair punch each other, laughing. “Tambry.” The purple haired teen glued to her phone, expressing a blase attitude. “Thompson, who once ate a runover waffle for 50 cents.” The chubby boy in a yellow shirt looks back and forth nervously.

“Don't tell them that!”, Thompson begs, his tone of embarrassment ever present in his voice.

“And Robbie. You can probably figure him out.”, Wendy finishes off her introduction of the black haired musician.

“Yeah, I'm the guy who spray-painted the water tower.”, Robbie points to the water tower in the distance where he spray-painted.

Dipper notices the spray paint. “Oh, you mean the big muffin!”

“It's a giant explosion.”, Robbie bites back, indignantly.

“You know, it kinda does look like a muffin!”, Lee laughs, realizing the similarities. Robbie looks at the nervous Dipper with anger and frustration.

“Let's hurry it up, guys. I got big plans for tonight!”, Wendy tells everyone, making everyone get inside Thompson’s van. Dipper tries to get in the front, only for Robbie to close the door.

“Sorry kid, but I ride shotgun alright?”, he taunts Dipper. Both he and Mabel sit before Thompson turns towards everyone.

“Okay just, before we go, my mom said you guys aren't allowed to punch the roof anymore, so…”, the chubby teenager tries to explain to his friends, hoping they get the message. But they just cheer his name while punching the roof with blatant disregard to what just said.

The van ride is a somewhat calming affair as Mabel notices the graffiti on the side of the van. She takes the bitten pen from Dipper and crosses out You stink! on the door and writes You look nice today! “Ha! This is gonna blow someone's mind!”, she smiles, enjoying her good work.

“Mabel, can you please stop?”, Dipper insists.

Mabel laughs, easily winding up her twin brother. “What, am I embarrassing you in front of your new….GIRLFRI-!!”

Dipper slaps his hand over Mabel's mouth but pulls it away in disgust. “Ugh! Did you just lick my hand?”

o-o-o-o-o-o

The van stops at their destination. Everyone gets out and walks near a chained fence that’s blocking the passageway to what looked to be a store.

“There it is, fellas!”, Wendy announces to her friends. “The condemned Dusk 2 Dawn!” Her friends get giddy with anticipation in entering the forbidden area, except for Dipper.

The shapeshifting Pine gulps, getting nervous at the thought of getting inside the decrepit store.

“W-why'd they shut it down? W-was it l-like a health code violation, o-or…?”, Dipper asks, getting anxious.

“TRY MURDER!”, Nate exclaims, making Dipper feel even more nervous.

“Some folks died in there, the place has been haunted ever since.”, Lee adds on. Safe to say, Dipper is starting to like this less and less each second.

“This town has such a colorful history!”, Mabel laughs, feeling excited about heading inside the abandoned building.

“Wha…”, Dipper tries to wrap his head around this. “Are you guys serious?”

Yeah, we're all gonna die!”, Wendy stutters in faux fear before playfully punching the nervous Dipper. “Chill out man. It's not as bad as it looks.” The logical Pine’s jitters start ebbing away a bit as he takes in the lumberjill’s word. He can get through this and if the situation calls for it, he has the watch if things get out of hand. With that said, Wendy and her friends start climbing over the fence one-by-one, even Mabel is able to do this easily. The only one who's hesitating to drop down is Dipper.

“Come on, Dipper!”, Wendy called up to him.

“I’ll be right down!”, Dipper replies, nervously trying to find his footing. “I...uh..just gotta get a foothold…”

“Dude, your sister did it!”, Robbie points out, really wanting to get this over with.

“Come on, Dipper!”, Mabel calls out. “You got this, bro-bro!”

Feeling a little bit confident with his sister cheering him on, Dipper manages to get his footing to drop to the ground. But he ends up falling on his face, scrapping it a bit.

“Ow.”, he says face in the ground. After that cringing display, the group heads to the front of the building.

Mabel peers in the window of the store. “Wow! This place is amazing!”

Robbie tries to open the door. “I think it's stuck!”

“Let me take a crack at it.”, Dipper volunteers

“Oh yeah.”, the teenage rocker scoffs. “I can't get in, but I'm sure Junior here is gonna break it down like Hercules!”

Wendy punches Robbie’s shoulder. “Come on, leave him alone. He's just a little kid.”

Dipper looks down at his bizarre watch and looks at the store door. He’s been using the watch to help him out of situations that were necessary but what would happen if he got into a situation that wouldn’t require extraterrestrial assistance? He doesn’t want to get complacent with said device and not focus on his other skillsets. After exhaling a defiant huff, the shapeshifting Pine walks around the store to the dumpster, much to everyone’s confusion. He proceeds to jump up on it, climbing up to the roof of the old building.

“Kid, what are you doing?”, Dipper hears the worry in Tambry’s voice from below.

He looks around the roof to see the vents. He goes to the ventilation before he begins to punch it consecutively.

“Go Dipper! Punch that metal thing!”, Mabel cheers on.

Dipper keeps punching until he notices a cinder block near the vent. He grabs it before slamming it into the vent, making it open. He walks inside reaching out of everyone’s sight. The teens and Mabel don’t hear anything from the daring Pine, causing them to worry.

“Who wants to bet he doesn't make it?”, Robbie jokes. Unfortunately for the morbid rocker, Dipper opens the door to the front of the convenience store. This makes everybody cheer the adventurous Pine for this impressive feat.

“Good call inviting this little maniac!”, Lee declares.

“Your new name is Dr. Funtimes!”, Nate high fives the Pine.

Wendy smiles at Dipper, giving a playful punch. “Nice work!”

The inside of the decrepit store had a paranormal presence with the dusty floors, bugs crawling in different areas, and the aging of the building being upfront. The lights flickered on and the atmosphere changed to a degree.

“So...”, Dipper wonders. “What do we do now?”

“Whatever we want, dude.”, Wendy laughs.

With that said, everyone started to have some fun in the abandoned store. The teens throw food at each other, making a big food fight. Mabel was enjoying some Smile Dip. They, then, sit in a circle and pop mints into a Pit Cola bottle, making a fruity flavored explosion with everyone cheering under sugary sweetness. Even Thompson having ice packs being put down his pants, much to Wendy’s enjoyment.

“Dipper, this night is, like, legendary.”, the lumberjill declares as she eats her ice pop on the shelf.

“You think so?”, he asks.

“Just look around. The guys are bonding.”, she chuckles as she points to Nate and Robbie putting stray ice into the shivering Thompson’s pants, laughing while doing so. “I've never even seen Tambry look up from her phone this long.” She notices her introverted texting friend looking up from her phone for a second. “And your sister seems to be going nuts with that Smile Dip.” Mabel, completely downing too much on Smile Dip, is chewing on air, hallucinating.

“You know Dipper, I wasn't sure if you could hang with our crew at first, but you're surprisingly mature for your age.”, Wendy being honest with the shapeshifting Pine.

“Yes, yes I am.”, he agrees, smearing ice cream on his face.

“Hey guys! We need more ice!”, Lee calls out, shaking the last bag of ice over Thompson's pants.

“I'm on it!”, Dipper opts in. He jumps off the shelf and walks over to an ice freezer. He takes out a bag of ice, but looks up to see a paranormal entity. It resembles a human brain with veins hanging off of it, some of which form hands, two retractable stalk eyes, and a mouth that looks like a pair of dentures. It is surrounded by a blue aura. It leaps forward towards him. “Aah!” He drops the ice and closes the door. He gasps and looks back at the door. The Pine slowly opens the door again but the entity is not there.

What the heck was that? Was that a ghost of sorts that I’ve read in the journal?, Dipper asks himself. That was something he wasn’t prepared for. Does this mean this store is rooted in the paranormal like Wendy’s friends teased? If that’s the case, then they should-

Dipper is brought out of his thoughts as Lee speaks. “What was that? I thought I heard some lady screaming back here.”

“You freakin' out, kid?”, Nate asks the shocked Pine.

“What? No.", Dipper responds in haste, laughing off the question. "I'm cool. Everything's cool.”

“Then what's all this about?”, Robbie questions as he points to the spilled ice. Dipper looks at the teens, who start to suspect that was being a scared little child. He needs to come up with a believable excuse, otherwise his chances with Wendy are over.

“I...uh, thought I saw a rat.”, Dipper responds, sounding embarrassed as he looks away and rubs the back of his head. Everyone is skeptical until Lee speaks up.

“Oh, that makes sense.”, he realizes, empathizing with Dipper, much to his and everyone's curiosity.

“What? Got something against rats?”, Nate teases.

“Yeah, they’re gross, dude.”, Lee responds, dryly.

Dipper understands he's out of the clear but just to make sure he looks around to find something to distract everybody before reaching an arcade game. “Hey, Dancy Pants Revolution! The game that tricks people into exercising!”

The teens mumble in agreement and walk over to play it, or more accurately, for Thompson to play for their amusement.

“Heh heh, yeah lets all- let's go play that.”, Dipper laughs. He turns around and looks at the cooler's door for a moment, waiting for something to come out before turning around again and walking to the group. They're laughing and cheering Thompson as he plays horribly on Dancy Pants Revolution.

“Wow. He's really terrible at this.”, Wendy commentates.

“Heh heh, yeah. Th-that's great.” Dipper laughs nervously before looking into a glass door, and sees the reflections of Wendy, Robbie, Tambry, Thompson and himself. Their skin, however, is replaced by bones, Dipper rubs his eyes and everything is back to normal. “........I'll be right back.”

o-o-o-o-o-o

Dipper runs off to use a telephone. “Come on, Grunkle Stan, pick up! Ugh, what is he doing!?”. He calls his grunkle multiple times but it heads to voicemail, much to his frustration. He looks down at his emerald watch, contemplating on if he should transform right now. Wendy and the others were in the front of the store while he was in the back but who's to say that they won't be suspicious of him and the alien he morphs into? He rubs his head in exasperation before turning to his sister.

“Mabel, I need your advice.” Dipper insists, getting panicky. “We're hanging out in a haunted convenience store, I can't get a hold of Grunkle Stan, and if I try to say anything about it to any of these guys they'll just think I'm a scared little kid and if I use the watch it’ll give me unwanted attention and mess things up with Wendy!”

Mabel gurgles with Smile Dip all over her face, clothes, and her eyes small, green, and lost. Dipper grabs her afraid that she’s knocked out from the constant sugar rushes she had from the snack.

“Mabel?” Dipper asks, shaking his sister. “Mabel! How many of these did you eat!?”

“Beleven.. Teen…”, she answers muddily.

“Oh man.” he drops Mabel, in shock. “Maybe we should leave.”

Robbie laughs as he uses a quarter to scratch lottery tickets before dropping the coin and it rolls onto the floor and stops in front of a white line. He goes to pick it up but stops. “Whoa guys, you might wanna see this.” The teens and a worried Dipper come over to see the tape markings of the store owners’ bodies.

“Whoa. Then the rumors are true!”, Lee exclaims in excitement. Dipper looks at the markings in worry as he starts to realize that this place is indeed haunted.

Robbie turns to Lee. “Dude, I dare you to lie down in it.”

“Good idea!”, Lee responds before turning to Nate. “Go lie down in it!”,

“I'm a dead body, look!”, Nate laughs as he walks over to the markings.

“Wait!”, Dipper calls out, getting the attention of everybody else. “M-Maybe let's not do that.”

“This guy's scared!”, Lee accuses.

“All I'm saying is, why tempt the fates?”, Dipper suggests, trying to convince them not to go through with it without telling them about the haunting. “I mean.. What if there’s bugs on the floor? What if a centipede crawled into your ear or something?”

While the logic made sense, it still was an unpopular opinion amongst the teens who jeer at the boy.

“Yeah, take it down a notch, Captain Buzzkill!”, Robbie insults the watch bearing boy.

“Hey, I thought I was Dr. Funtimes.”, Dipper lamely retorts.

“Well, you're acting like Captain Buzzkill, alright?”, Robbie enforces, making everyone, including Wendy, agree to what he’s saying.

“Status update: trapped in a store with an insane 9-year old.”, Tambry texts.

“I'm not a 9-year-old!”, Dipper yells in indignation. In his emotional state, he lies down in tape markings. “I'm 13! Technically a teen!” Wait, why did I just- He realizes his mistake too late as the tape markings light up and the lights go out. Out of nowhere, Tambry looks up and dissolves in thin, much to everyone’s shock.

Dipper picks up her phone, reading from it. “Status update: AAAAUUUUUGGGGGGHHHHH!!!!” Looking up from the phone, the teens see Tambry screaming inside the security cameras in terror. The teens and Dipper reel back in shock at what they are seeing.

“Tambry! Tambry!”, Wendy shouts to her trapped friend.

“Can you hear us!?”, Dipper calls out only for Tambry to look around in confusion.

“What are we supposed to do!?”, Nate asks in fear.

“I don't know man! I don't know!”, Lee answers back, equally terrified.

Robbie runs to the door. “Let's just go already!”

“Thompson, let’s go!”, Wendy calls out to her dancing friend as she, Dipper and everybody else was at the door.

“Wait! I've almost got the high score!”, the overweight teen insists before he dissolves and reappears inside the game. “Uh? What?”

“It's time to shake what your mama gave you!”, the game announces as arrows begin to fall down on the overwhelmed teen.

“No! So many arrows!”, Thompson distresses as he’s pelted with arrows.

“You're a dance machine!”, the game cheers.

“No! You're a dance machine!”, the constantly pelted teen cries. The teens and Dipper are frightened by the display.

“Forget them! Let's go!”, Robbie calls out to them. They run to the door, only for Wendy to realize something as she grabs the door.

“What the…”, Wendy tries to open it but can't. “Guys... Damn it, it's locked!”

“OUTTA MY WAY!”, Robbie yells, throws the cash register at the doors, but it dissolves and green light flies at Robbie. “SHIT!”

“Everybody, wait!”, Dipper calls out to the group before opening Journal 3. “Whatever's doing this has to have some kind of reason! 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!", Robbie replies in sarcasm. “Yeah, that makes a lot of sense!”

“I don't know guys, maybe he's got a point!”, Wendy considers.

“Yeah right, I'm sure the ghost just wants to talk about his feelings!”, Lee remarks, sardonically. He vanishes in thin air before reappearing on the front of a cereal box. “W-what?”

“I'm bonkers for eating you alive!”, the cereal mascot chortles before bludgeoning the teen, who screams in pain.

“Lee!”, Nate screams before turning to Dipper, “Okay, okay.. I'm with you kid! 100%, man!” Before anything else happens, a possessed Mabel levitates from behind the counter.

“Welcome.”, the ghost addresses in a deep, haunting voice.

“Oh, no! They got Mabel!”, Wendy yells. Dipper was

“Welcome to your graves, young trespassers.”, the ghost laughs mockingly, kicking their legs. “You have no business being here, but you probably knew that already.”

“Hey, we're super sorry for hanging out in your store!”, Wendy pleads to the guard.

“Yeah! Can we just go now and leave forever?”, Dipper adds, making the ghost contemplate for a moment.

“Well... okay. You're free to go.”, the ghost allows the doors to open before pointing to a hot dog machine. “But before you leave, hot dogs are now half off. I know it might be crazy, but you gotta try these dogs!” The group, naturally, bolts to the door. Unfortunately, they close at the last second.

“Just kidding about the hot dog sale!”, the ghost proclaims in fury.

“Just let us out of here already!”, Nate demands, wanting to leave the haunted store.

“I don't like your tone!”, the ghost retorts harshly before dissolving Nate. He reappears as a hot dog on the stove

“No! I'M A HOT DOG!”, Nate screams in panic.

“It begins.”, the ghost declares as it makes everything float to the ceiling in an ethereal glow and flipping the whole store in with their otherworldly abilities. “Welcome to your home for all eternity!”

Wendy dodges the levitating soda can. “Dipper, what do we do?!”

As the ghosts possess Mabel, Dipper is about to use the watch but realizes he might end up hurting her before noticing something coming at them. “DUCK!” Dipper grabs Wendy and they both avoid a flying shelf, which knocks Robbie out cold.

They land on the ceiling (?), staying low as Dipper notices the tipped over ice machine and points to it. “Quick! In there!” They quickly crawled inside the machine, narrowly avoiding the launching, panting.

Wendy rubs their head in fear and frustration. “What do they want from us?!”

“Revenge, most likely?”, Dipper comptiplates.

The lumberjill turns to the cap-wearing Pine, confused. “What did we do wrong?”

“Okay, let's try to figure out the pattern here.”, Dipper assesses. “Why was each person taken? Tambry was texting, Thompson was playing a video game, Lee was being sarcastic. It doesn’t make sense.”

“Yeah! I mean, those are all just normal teenage things.”, Wendy points out.

Dipper realizes something. “Wendy, repeat that last part again.”

“Normal teenage things?”, the redhead teen repeats, confused at what the boy is getting at.

“Of course!”Dipper snaps his fingers, finally knowing what the spirits are after. He turns to Wendy. “Stay here until I get back!” The determined Pine crawls out of the freezer.

“Dude, what are you doing?!”, Wendy calls out to him.

“Hey ghost!”, Dipper gets the vengeful spirit’s attention as they twist Mabel's head around to face Dipper, before turning the rest of her body towards him. The sight makes him cringe a bit before getting back on track. “I've got something to tell you!”

He braces himself, hoping this would work. “I'm not a teenager!”

And just like that, everything that's floating drops and the spirits that were possessing Mabel appear, holding her by her hair. The spirits in question are elderly couple.

“Hohoho! Well why didn't you say so?”, the “Ma” spirit laughs, dropping disorientated Mabel into a pile of candy.

“How old did you say you were?”, the “Pa” spirit asks.

Dipper sighs. “I'm...I'm twelve, technically not a teen.”

“When we were alive, teenagers were a scourge on our store.”, Ma explains in contempt.

“Always sassafrassin' customers with their boomy boxes and disrespectful short pants!”, Pa grumbles. “So we decided to up and ban them! But they retaliated with this new fangled rap music.”

“And the lyrics were so hateful.”, Ma adds on. “It was so shocking, we were stricken down with double heart attacks!”

“That's why we hate teenagers so much. Don't we, honey?”, Pa croons as he and Ma hold each other, lovingly.

“But they're my friends.”, Dipper insists. ''Isn't there anything I can do to help them?”

“There is one thing. Do you know any funny little dances?”, Pa inquires.

Okay, so, maybe trying to bargain with these ghosts would be less than ideal.

“Uh... is there anything else I can do?”, Dipper tries to work around but these ghosts are not having it.

“NOOOO!”, Pa angrily bellows as he lights himself on fire.

“OKAY OKAY OKAY!”, Dipper gives in, trying to appease the spirits. “Um... Well, I do know... the Lamby Lamby Dance. B-but I can't really do it, without a lamb costume!” He folds his arms, confident that he found a loophole.

Unfortunately, for him, Pa snaps his fingers and Dipper is in a lamb costume, much to his shock and mortification.

“Oh, well... there it is.” the embarrassed Pine braces. He takes a deep breath before singing. “Wellll~...Who wants a Lamby lamby lamby? I do! I do! So go up and greet your Mammy mammy mammy! Hi there! Hi there! So march march march around the daisies…” This childish dance is amusing for the spirits and Wendy, who laughs quietly in the freezer. This is the cutest thing she had ever seen.

“....And don't, don't, don't you forget about the babies!”, Dipper finishes the dance with a wink as he sweats.

“That was so fine, girly dancin' boy!”, Pa wipes away a tear. “Your friends are free.” With a snap of his fingers, Dipper’s clothes are back.

“Well I don't think you have to worry about us coming back, so…”, Dipper explains before trailing off. With that said, the spirits disappear, allowing everything to fall back to the floor and freeing the teens.

Mabel gets up in a daze. “Ugh... I'm never gonna eat or do anything ever again.”

“Hey.”, Dipper picks up a package of Smile Dip. “There's still some left.”

Mabel jolts up and slaps it out of his hand. “EVIL!”

Wendy crawled out of the freezer to check on her confused friends. “Guys are you alright?”

“Wh-what happened after everything went crazy?”, Lee asks Wendy.

“You are not going to believe it!”, she laughs “The ghosts appeared and Dipper had to…” she pauses for a minute as she sees Dipper, silently pleading with her not to tell anyone. “Grab a bat, and just start beating ghosts down, left and right, and the ghost got all scared, and ran away like a couple of little girls, it was insane!” The teens, except an envious Robbie, are impressed by the Dipper that earns a moniker of Dr. Funtimes. Wendy turns to Dipper and zips her lips, with the Pine doing the same thing to symbolize their trust.

Afterwards, everyone had left the store and rested in the van, except for Wendy and Dipper.

“Well, I'm probably scarred for life.”, the lumberjill admits with a smile.

“Yeah, that was pretty crazy.”, the Pine dittos.

“I think I'll go stare at a wall for a while and RETHINK EVERYTHING.”, Wendy comments as her relaxed tone becomes more serious. “Hey, next time we hang out, let's stay at the Mystery Shack. Okay?” She gets into the van to rest for a bit.

“Next time?”, Dipper asks before getting a bit jittery. “Yeah! Let's hang out at the Shack! Next time... “ He gets in the van, happily thinking about many possibilities of hanging out with his crush as he sits next to Mabel.

“Oooooh…What kind of sick joke is this?”, she groans the writing she made earlier.

After a quiet ride home and goodbye to Wendy, the Pine Twins head near the Mystery Shack. It’s been quiet but Dipper decides to speak up to Mabel, who managed to get through her sugar crash.

“Hey, Mabel.”, he starts, getting his sister’s attention. “I’m really sorry.”

“What about, Dipping Sauce?”, Mabel asks. What’s he apologizing for?

“About not being able to protect you from….you know.”, Dipper tries to say.

The sweater-wearing Pine shakes her head. “Dipper, it’s fine.” “No, Mabel. It’s not.”, the watch-bearing Pine. “I should’ve been able to protect you, to protect Wendy but…..I hesitated twice. What if this happens again and I can’t protect you.” That’s his biggest fear. He has a device that can help him protect his sister, his friends, and the people that he cares about but he hesitated tonight when Mabel was possessed.

Mabel grabs his brother’s shoulders, getting his attention. “Dipper.”, she begins. “It won’t happen again. Because next time, you and I’ll be ready.”

“Really?”, Dipper questions, unsure of himself. “You’re sure about that?”

“Absolutely.”, Mabel nods. “Now let’s get inside, I’m feeling exhausted from eating all that Smile Dip.” Dipper takes a moment and nods his head, taking in what she said with a smile.

Outside, Dipper and Mabel are walking to the door. The television flies out the window and nearly hits them. They look down at the broken appliance before seeing Grunkle Stan peering outside the broken window with an embarrassed expression on his face.

“Uuhh….Couldn't find the remote.”, he admits half-heartedly before pulling his head back in, leaving the Pine Twins confused before they just roll with it and head back inside.

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