Narrator PoV

Our story begins after The Stanchurian Candidate. It was a normal day in the Mystery Shack, where there's anything but normal happening. Let's begin our story with Dipper, shall we?

Dipper's PoV

I had just finished my usual breakfast of cereal and Pitt Cola, when I noticed a strange book on the counter. Intrigued, I picked it up, and to my surprise it had a six-fingered golden hand with the number 4 on it in black ink. "Great Uncle FORD!" I shouted as I ran into the gift shop and straight to the vending machine. I flew down the stairs, entered the elevator, and went down to the basement. There through the glass, I could see a tall elderly man in a tan trench coat, with a destroyed portal in front of him. "Great Uncle Ford," I shouted as I ran through the door into the rocky portal room, "You didn't tell me you were working on a 4th journal!"

(Stan)Ford's PoV

I was looking upon my most dangerous research yet, a transdimensional universal gateway... completely destroyed. As I was thinking of my time in the dimensional gap, I heard a distinct high-pitched voice call my name. I turned around to find Dipper, as he told me, "You didn't tell me you were working on a 4th journal!" I slowly responded with, "Did Stanley leave that out? Well, it doesn't matter now that you know, and yes I am working on a 4th journal." I said as I took it out of the 12 year old's hands and said, "Did you read any of it?" With that question he replied, "No, but do you mind if I read it?" "Yes, I mind Dipper! This book contains secrets that you can't begin to imagine the consequences that would come with them!" And with that I tucked the journal into my trench coat and walked into the observation room. "Dipper, can I ask you something?" "Of course Great Uncle Ford." "Do you know what it's like to be trapped in a vacant place? Or to feel like you're both innocent and guilty at the same time? Or know that you are responsible for everything you affect?" And with that he shrugged, "Well, I don't want to talk about it" and went back upstairs. I went back to my thinking state, and begun making plans for something big.