"Sweep, sweep, sweep" hummed Soos, the resident repairman and janitor of Gravity Falls' number one curios and con center, the Mystery Shack. It was days like these where Soos could finally allow himself some breathing room to relax.
He sighed and glanced at the clock. With the wave of supernatural and highly dangerous beings and monsters that hit Gravity Falls during the summer, his schedule had been fully booked with things like running from Gnome giants and hunting down man-eating spider ladies. Although these adventures were always dangerous, that was for sure, he always had fun on them, because he braved these quests with his two favorite people, the Mystery Twins: Mabel and Dipper Pines.
"Ah, the Pines twins. They'll be a sight for sore eyes" thought Soos. They were arriving in a couple days for Summer Vacation for the second consecutive year.
Soos' reminiscing came to an abrupt stop when he heard a particularly loud creak. Looking down at his feet, he noticed an indentation in the carpet. Lifting the carpet, he found a handle. "Must be a trapdoor…"
It was a sleepy afternoon in Gravity Falls – unless, of course, you were an employee of the Mystery Shack. Stan Pines scurried about, brandishing a broken broom in one hand, and a bent frying pan in the other. "Soos, hurry and grab the net!" he shouted. The handyman made a dash from behind the tipped couch for the coffee table, and raised the net in the air. Wendy was helping to distract the bat with the hatchet she kept on-hand at all times.
For the past two days, these three had been holed up in their place of business, all because of the giant poisonous bat that was currently demolishing the living room. It had escaped from Ford Pines' secret basement for document and specimen storage, which Soos had discovered. He had a knack for that kind of thing. How the bat had survived that long, no one knew.
Stan was researching the thing destroying his house in one of the copies he had made of his brother's Journals, and found out that if it were able to interbreed with normal bats, the resulting mutation would be even more dangerous, and therefore it had to be contained. That's why, when he heard a knock at the door, he shouted for Soos not to answer it. Without an answer at the door, Wendy turned around. "Sweet, not workin' today, I guess!" she said, when she heard the door creak open, and Soos whisper "Wendy? Hurry, get in here!" Intrigued by Soos' mysteriously hushed tone, she quickly went for the door. As soon as the redhead was through the door, Soos blocked off the entrance with a dresser. "Aren't you gonna help me?" he asked.
A knock at the door caused all four of them to turn their heads. "Grunkle Stan? Soos?" yelled a familiarly high-pitched and cutesy voice. "Wendy?" yelled an equally high-pitched, if not slightly less cute and more cracky voice. "Ah, crap, it's the kids." Thought Stan. "Were they really supposed to arrive today?"
"Uh, kids? Hey, this isn't really a good time for you guys to be here." Said Stan.
"Uh-huh, and why's that, you cranky old man?" responded Dipper Pines.
Mabel gasped and then added with a grin, "Do you have a girl in there? I knew it! C'mon, spill the beans Stan!"
"Well, I'm in here with him, but–" said Wendy, but she was instantly interrupted by Dipper.
"What!?" shouted Dipper, a knee-jerk response. His mind fired on all cylinders, thinking a million different things at once.
"Why is she here? Does she have a boyfriend? Is she dating Stan? Are they intimate? Why wouldn't she tell me about it? Why would she date Stan?"
He liked to consider himself above child-like crushes, being a whole year older than last year. Even still, he couldn't deny his feelings for the redhead bombshell.
"– But it's not like that, Dipper." Finished Wendy, glancing over at Stan in his tank-top and underwear. "Ew. The only thing I'm interested in right now is the weird three-eyed bat thing that's trying to eat us!"
The twins looked at each other, released a simultaneous sigh of relief and nodded. They charged the door, breaking down its rusty and molded hinges. They saw the bat monster and tackled it to the floor.
When it hit the ground, it hissed, sputtered and evaporated in a puff of smoke, with a loud bang. The sudden empty space between the two twins caused them to collapse, Dipper landing awkwardly on top of Mabel. He felt the rise and fall of her chest. Dipper hadn't really paid it much mind until now, but she definitely had a chest tofeel. "Gross." Thought Dipper, shaking his head. This was his sister, it was probably just the adrenaline. The two blushed and laughed awkwardly before standing up. Brushing themselves off, Dipper looked up to see Soos, Wendy and Stan staring with jaws gaping at the Mystery Twins.
"What? You know that bats are–" "–More afraid of you than you are of them!" Dipper began, only to be interrupted by Mabel. "I taught you that!" said Mabel. The two shared a chuckle and glanced around at the mess that the two-day ordeal had caused. "Hi, Grunkle Stan. I see this place is in the same state as when we left" mocked Dipper. "Yeah, and you two brats aren't any different either!" responded Stan, dropping his makeshift weapons, running for the twins and trapping them in a stranglehold of a bear hug. Soon, the two Shack employees joined in.
"Great to have you back dudes" said Soos. "Yeah, the school year totally blew without you guys here" added Wendy.
"Great to be back" responded Dipper and Mabel in unison.
They closed their eyes, and released a contented sigh.
They were home.