We see the sun and a boy starts to narrate, "Ah, summer break." We then see a man grilling burgers while two kids are running around beside him. Others sit at a picnic table. The man asks his wife, "So you want cheese on that, hon?" She replies, "Sure, Hank." The boy continues, "A time for leisure, recreation, and taking 'er easy." We stop at a "Welcome to Gravity Falls" sign. "Unless you're me." Two children and a mysterious 8 foot tall creature crash through the 'Welcome to Gravity Falls" sign with the Mystery Cart, screaming. They are being chased by an unknown monster, which is knocking down trees. The girl yells out while looking back, "It's getting closer!" The creature on top of the cart yells back, "I can see that!", and blows fire at the monster. The monster tries to catch the cart, but just falls short. The cart flies off a rock and lands roughly. The boy keeps narrating, "My name is Dipper. The girl about to puke is my sister Mabel. The strange creature on top of the cart is Hope, the Wolf Dragon. You may be wondering what we're doing in a golf cart, fleeing from a creature of unimaginable horror." The twins and Hope watch as the monster throws a tree in their path. Mabel shouts, "Look out!" Time seems to freeze with Hope, Mabel and Dipper screaming. "Rest assured, there's a perfectly logical explanation. Let's rewind." Flashback to Dipper and Mabel in their living room at home. "It all began when our parents decided we could use some fresh air." Their parents take their stuff away, give them bags and put some sunscreen on their noses. We see a map of Oregon, closing in on Gravity Falls. "They shipped us up north to a sleepy town called Gravity Falls, Oregon, to stay at our great-uncle's place in the woods."

We see Hope say to the kids, "I think you're gonna like it here." Dipper narrates, "Hope was a creature who stood at 8 feet tall. She had the body, head, left eye, right front leg, back left leg, and the tail of a wolf, and the right eye, left front leg, back right leg, wings, tail, forked tongue, and horns of a dragon. Her fur was black, her scales and wolf eye were red, her horns were purple, her tongue was blue, and her dragon eye was yellow. Her wings were like those of a bat with scales, and she had scales running down her back. She can stand on her hind legs and use her front paw and claws like human hands. Lastly, her dragon tail has four pincers than can move like fingers and grab things." Mabel hangs up posters and then says, "This attic is amazing. Check out all my splinters!" She holds up her hands, which have gigantic splinters sticking out of them, which Hope pulls out. Dipper backs up into his bed, which Gompers is on; and says, not narrating, "And there's a goat on my bed." Hope says, "That's Gompers. I found her when she was little, and she's lived here ever since." Mabel walks up to Gompers and greets her, "Hey, friend." She holds out her arm, and Gompers chews on her sleeve. "Oh! Yes, you can keep chewing on my sweater." She then laughs. Dipper continues to narrate, "My sister tended to look on the bright side of things." Mabel rolls down a hill of grass as she shouts, "Yay! Grass!" A woodpecker pecks on Dipper's hat. "But I was having a hard time getting used to our new surroundings. A man jumps out at him wearing a mask and yells, "Boo!" Dipper shouts, "Ah!," and falls over. The man takes his mask off and laughs loudly and slaps his knee. "And then there was our Great Uncle Stan. That guy." Stan coughs several times and hits his chest, "It was worth it." Stan is now leading tourists through the Mystery Shack. "Our uncle had transformed his house into a tourist trap he called 'The Mystery Shack.' The real mystery was why anyone came." The Jackalope's antler breaks off. Stan says to the tourists, "Ladies and gentlemen, behold! The Sascrotch!" They turn to a Sasquatch wearing underwear. Tourists start speaking excitedly, and snap pictures. Dipper is sweeping the wooden floor with a broom while Mabel is looking at stuff and Hope is putting prices on objects. "And guess who had to work there." Dipper then sighs. Mabel looks at a large eyeball and exclaims, "Ooh!," as she reaches for large eyeball. Stan slaps her hand with his 8-ball cane and shouts, "No touching the merchandise!" A large man is driving the Mystery Cart to the Mystery Shack. "It looked like it was gonna be the same, boring routine all summer. Until one fateful day..."

Mabel is now peeking through Stan-bobbleheads. She says, with an excited look on her face, "He's looking at it! He's looking at it!" A boy is looking at Mabel's note. The boy reads the note, "Uh...Do you like me? Yes? Definitely? Absolutely!" He looks around. Mabel quietly yells, "I rigged it!" Dipper says while spraying a jar with water and wiping it, "Mabel, I know you're going through your whole "Boy Crazy" phase, but I think you're kind of overdoing it with the "crazy" part." Mabel yells at her brother, "What?" She blows a raspberry. "Come on, Dipper! This is our first summer away from home! It's my big chance to have an epic summer romance!" Dipper says back to his sister, as Hope enters the room, "Yeah, but do you need to flirt with every guy you meet?" Hope includes herself in the conversation, "Yeah, I mean, first there was the guy checking out the postcards." Flashback to Mabel with a boy near a greeting cards display. Mabel talks to the boy, "My name is Mabel, but you can call me "The girl of your dreams." I'm joking!" She shoves him into the display and laughs. Hope's voice is heard, "Then there was that guy with the turtle." Flashback to a boy holding a turtle on a bench. Mabel jumps up behind him, "Oh my gosh, you like turtles? I like turtles too! What is happening here?" Hope's voice come up again, "And then there was the Mattress King." Flashback to the inside of a mattress store. The Mattress King advertises, "Come one, come all, to the Mattress Prince's kingdom of savings!" Mabel, hiding behind a set of colorful balloons; pops out head and whispers, "Take me with you..." The Mattress King screams as he cowers away from Mabel and drops scepter.

Mabel says, in the present, "Mock all you want, brother and friend, but I got a good feeling about this summer. I wouldn't be surprised if the man of my dreams walked through that door right now." Stan walks through the door and burps, but it gets caught in his throat, "Oh! Oh, not good. Ow." Mabel regrets her choice of words, "Aww! Why!" Hope and Dipper laugh. Stan, being serious, "All right, all right, look alive, people. I need someone to go hammer up these signs in the spooky part of the forest." Dipper, Mabel, and Hope all say, "Not it!," quickly in succession, with each raising a hand, or paw for Hope. Behind them a large man is drilling screws into a wall to prop a shelf, but then raising his hand like the others and says, "Uh, also not it." Stan looks at the man bored, "Nobody asked you, Soos." Soos, smiling says, "I know, and I'm comfortable with that." He takes a bite out of a chocolate bar. Stan, looking towards the entrance to the shack, "Wendy, I need you to put up this sign!" Wendy, the cashier, pretends to reach for signs while reading a magazine, "I would, but I, ugh, can't, ugh, reach it, ugh..." Stan, looking somewhat angry, "I'd fire all of you if I could. All right, let's make it... eenie, meenie, miney...you." He ends pointing at Dipper. Dipper, wide eyed, "Aw, what? Grunkle Stan, whenever I'm in those woods, I feel like I'm being watched." Stan, clearly annoyed, "Ugh, this again." Dipper, looking freaked out, "I'm telling you, something weird is going on in this town. Just today, my mosquito bites spelled out "BEWARE."" Stan squints at Dipper's arm, "That says "BEWARB."" Dipper scratches his arm. "Look, kid. The whole "monsters in the forest" thing is just local legend, drummed up by guys like me to sell merch to guys like that." A fat, sweaty man laughs while looking at a Stan-bobblehead's head bobble. "So quit being so paranoid!" Stan gives Dipper the signs. Dipper sighs.

Now in a foggy forest with trees getting blown by the wind, Dipper mutters to himself, "Ugh, Grunkle Stan. Nobody ever believes anything I say." He puts one sign up on a tree that says "To The Mystery Shack." He starts to hammer a nail on another tree trunk, but it makes a metallic sound. He taps the tree with the hammer, which makes more metallic sounds. He wipes away some dust and opens a secret window revealing a mechanical box with two control switches on top. He tests one control but nothing happens. Then he tries the other. Behind him, a hole opens up in the ground. Gompers bleats and runs away. "What the?," Dipper asks himself confused. He looks inside the hole, and there is a book. He picks the book up and places it on the ground, and checks for people watching. He flips one page and an eye-glass is in it. He looks at the eye-glass and puts it down. He flips another page, and begins reading aloud, "It's hard to believe it's been six years since I began studying the strange and wondrous secrets of Gravity Falls, Oregon." He then flips through pages. "What is all this?" He stops at a page that says "TRUST NO ONE" and starts reading, "Unfortunately, my suspicions have been confirmed. I'm being watched. I must hide this book before he finds it. Remember: in Gravity Falls there is no one you can trust." Closes Journal "No one you can trust…" Mabel, jumping up from behind a log, "HALLO!" Dipper screams. Hope shows up and asks Mabel, "Was that really necessary?" Mabel answers, "No, but it's funny." She then asks her brother, "What'cha readin', some nerd thing?" Dipper, hiding journal behind back, "Uh, uh, it's nothing!" Mabel, imitating Dipper, "Uh, uh, it's nothing!" She laughs, "What? Are you actually not gonna show us?" Gompers nibbles the edge of the journal. Dipper glancing at Gompers, "Uhhh...Let's go somewhere private."

In the Mystery Shack. Dipper, Hope and Mabel are in the living room. Hope asks, "Remind me, how is the Mystery Shack more private than the secluded woods?" Dipper ignores the question and explains the book to the girls, "It's amazing! Grunkle Stan said I was being paranoid, but according to this book, Gravity Falls has this secret dark side." He shows Mabel a page. Hope widens her eyes as Mabel yells out, "Whoa! Shut. Up!" She playfully pushes Dipper. Dipper continues, "And get this! After a certain point, the pages just...stop, like the guy who was writing it... mysteriously disappeared." Hope gets back into the conversation, sadly, "That's because he did." Dipper asks, "How do you know that?" Hope replies, "I've lived here for almost 300 years, Dipper. I know everyone in this town. The man who wrote the journal was dedicated to finding out about the strange and weird. And that's all I'm telling you" Dipper was about to beg Hope to tell him who wrote the journal, but then the doorbell rings. "Who's that?" Mabel has a smile on her face, "Well, time to spill the beans." She knocks over an empty can of beans on the table. "Boop. Beans. This girl's got a date! Woot woot!" She falls backward into the chair, giggling. Dipper looks at his sister confused, "Let me get this straight: in the half hour I was gone, you already found a boyfriend?" Mabel, still cheerful, "What can I say? I guess I'm just IRRESISTIBLE!" The doorbell rings twice. "Oh. Coming!" She runs out. Dipper looks at hope with a look that said, "Did you know anything about this?" Hope looks back at Dipper and shakes her head to say, "Not a clue." Dipper sits down in chair and begins to read the Journal. Stan walks in and sees Dipper reading and asks, "What'cha reading there, slick?" Dipper exclaims, "Oh!" He throws the book under the seat cushion and grabs a magazine. "I was just catching up on, uh…" Sees the cover of the magazine. "Gold Chains For Old Men Magazine?" Stan looks at the magazine and says, "That's a good issue." Mabel, standing next to a teenager facing the other direction in a black hoodie, "Hey, family! Say hello to my new boyfriend!" The teenager turns around to show his pale face, with something red on it, "'Sup?" Dipper says, "Hey…" while Stan says, "How's it hanging?" And Hope responds with, "Hello." Mabel, looking at the teenager, "We met at the cemetery. He's really deep." She feels his arm. "Oh. Little muscle there. That's...what a surprise…" Dipper asks the teen, "So, what's your name?" The teen yells, "Uh. Normal...MAN!" Mabel answers for him, "He means Norman." Hope asks, "Are you bleeding, Norman?" Norman looks at the red liquid dripping down his face and responds, "It's jam." Mabel gasps and playfully pushes Norman, "I love jam! Look. At. This!" Norman, looking at Mabel, "So, you wanna go hold hands or...whatever?" Mabel, with excitement on her face, "Oh, oh, my goodness." She giggles. "Don't wait up!" She runs out. Norman points at Stan, Hope and Dipper and runs into the wall several times on his way out. Dipper, back to narrating, "There was something about Norman that wasn't right. Hope and I decided to consult the journal."

Dipper and Hope are now in the attic. Hope says to Dipper, "Here's the page." Dipper, after mentally deciding to ask Hope more about the journal later, reads aloud from the Journal, "Known for their pale skin and bad attitudes these creatures are often mistaken for...teenagers?! Beware Gravity Falls' nefarious…" He gasps. We see the journal page on The Undead. The picture of the zombie becomes Norman. Norman, as the zombie on the journal page, "'Sup." Dipper screams, "ZOMBIE!" It echoes and we see Stan in the bathroom. Stan asks himself, "Somebody say "crombie"? What is that, crombie? That's not even a word. You're losing your mind." Hope wide eyed, looking out of the window, "Uh, Dipper?" Dipper looks out the window to see Norman walking towards Mabel with outstretched arms while moaning. Mabel says while smiling, "I like you." Dipper tries to warn his sister, "Oh, no! Mabel! No, no, Mabel, watch out!" Norman grunts and puts hands around Mabel's neck. Dipper screams and Hope shouts, "MABEL!" Norman removes his arms, revealing a flower necklace on Mabel's neck and he grunts. Mabel gasps and says, "Daisies? You scallywag…" Dipper looking away from the window, asks Hope, "Is my sister really dating a zombie, or am I just going nuts?" Soos, screwing in a lightbulb, answers Dipper, "It's a dilemma, to be sure." Dipper and Hope gasp. Soos continues, "I couldn't help but overhear you and Hope talkin' aloud to yourselves in this empty room." Dipper talks to Soos, "Soos, you've seen Mabel's boyfriend. He's gotta be a zombie, right?" Soos ponders the question for a second, "Hmm. How many brains didja see the guy eat?" Dipper looks down, "Zero." Soos replies, "Look, dude, I believe you. I'm always noticing weird stuff in this town. Like the mailman? Pretty sure that dude's a werewolf." Flashback of a hairy mailman walking by Soos, who is eating his lunch outside. Soos scoots away from him, suspicious. "But ya gotta have evidence. Otherwise, people are gonna think you and Hope are major league cuckoo clocks. Hope says to Soos, "As always, Soos, you're right." Soos replies, "My wisdom is both a blessing and a curse." Stan shouts, "Soos! The portable toilets are clogged again!" Soos says while looking off into the distance, "I am needed elsewhere." He backs out into the shadows. Dipper, back to narrating, "My sister could be in trouble. It was time to get some evidence." Hope and Dipper are now filming Mabel and Norman in the park. Mabel throws a Frisbee at Norman, who fails to catch it and falls over. Dipper stops looking through camera and frowns at Norman. Norman is now breaking through a door window to open it from the inside and letting Mabel inside the diner. Norman stumbles around and crashes, trying to follow Mabel. Hope looks out from behind menu. Mabel and Norman are now frolicking in a field. Norman falls into an open grave, then crawls out, hand first, screaming. Mabel and Norman pause, then laugh. "We've seen enough."

In Mabel, Hope and Dipper's room, Mabel is brushing her hair and Dipper and Hope enter. Dipper talks to his sister, "Mabel. We've gotta talk about Norman." Mabel replies, "Isn't he the best? Check out this giant smooch mark he gave me!" She shows her cheek, which has a red spot on it. Dipper and Hope scream. Mabel laughs, "Gullible. It was just an accident with the leaf blower!" Flashback to Mabel with a leaf blower. Mabel puts a picture of Norman on leaf blower's tube. "Kissing practice!" She leans in to leaf blower, but then it sucks in the picture and sticks to her face as well; she runs around screaming, "AHHH! Turn it off! Turn it off!" Back in the present, Mabel says with a smile on her face, "That was fun." Hope says to Mabel, "No, Mabel, listen! We're trying to tell you that Norman is not what he seems!" She uses her tail pincers to grab the Journal from Dippers jacket and shows Mabel the Journal. Mabel gasps and asks, "You think he might be a vampire? That would be so awesome!" Dipper, after grabbing the Journal from Hope's tail pincers, "Guess again, sister. SHA-BAM!" He holds book open to the Gnomes page. Mabel yells out in surprise and Hope tells Dipper, "Wrong page." Dipper looks at the page and says, "Oh, wait. I'm-I'm sorry…" He then flips to Undead page. "Sha-bam!" Mabel looks at the two angry, "A zombie? That is not funny, guys." Dipper explains to his sister, "We're not joking! It all adds up: the bleeding, the limp. He never blinks! Have you noticed that?" Mabel tries to explain that to Dipper, "Maybe he's blinking when you're blinking." Hope replies with, "That doesn't make any sense." Dipper tries to talk some sense with Mabel, "Mabel, remember what the book said about Gravity Falls? Trust no one!" Mabel questions her brother, "Well, what about me, huh? Why can't you trust me?" She puts on star earrings. "Beep bop!" Dipper tries one last attempt at reason while shaking her, "Mabel, he's gonna eat your brain!" Mabel pushes him away, "Dipper, listen to me. Norman and I are going on a date at five o'clock, and I'm gonna be ADORABLE, and he's gonna be DREAMY,..." She says as she pushes Dipper out of the room. Dipper tries to talk to Mabel, "Bu-bu-but—" "And I am not gonna let you ruin it with one of your crazy CONSPIRACIES!" Mabel slams the door. Dipper looks at Hope, who had walked out of the room before Mabel started to push Dipper out of the room. He then sighs and sits down and asks Hope, "What am I gonna do?" Hope has her ears down and she sighs and responds, "I wish I knew."

The clock tells the time at 5:00. The doorbell rings. Mabel pulls on her sweater as she races downstairs. "Coming!" She sees Norman. "Hey, Norman. How do I look?" She shows Norman her sweater, which has a cat on it and the word meow, all coated in sparkly glitter. Norman, entranced by the sparkles, "Shiny…" Mabel smiles, "You always know what to say!" She walks off with him. Dipper and Hope are watching the videos they collected and Dipper says to Hope, "Soos was right. We don't have any real evidence." The video shows Mabel teaching Norman hopscotch, but he only falls over; Dipper fast forwards to Mabel and Norman with Norman's arm around Mabel. "I guess I can be kind of paranoid sometimes and—" On the tape, Norman's hand falls off; he glances around, then reattaches it, making Hope yell out, "Wait, WHAT?!" She rewinds the tape and watches it again; Dipper screams and tips the chair backwards, "We were right! Oh my gosh! Oh my gosh!" He and Hope races outside while yelling, "Grunkle Stan! Grunkle Stan! Grunkle Stan!" Stan is on a stage in front of a bunch of tourists; to the crowd, "And here we have Rock that looks like a face rock: the rock that looks like a face." An unnamed hillbilly asks, "Does it look like a rock?" Stan addresses him, "No, it looks like a face." A fat tourist asks, "Is it a face?" Stan says again, "It's a rock that looks like a face!" Dipper runs into the crowd to try and get Stan's attention, "Over here! Grunkle Stan!" Stan yells out, "For the fifth time! It's-it's not an actual face!" Dipper yells out in frustration. Mabel and Norman are now in the woods. Mabel looks at her surroundings, "Finally, we're alone." Norman is behind Mabel and he stares at her, "Yes. Alone…" Back to the Mystery Shack, Dipper is still trying to get Stan's attention, "Stan! Stan!" Hope sees Wendy drive up in a golf cart and runs over, "Wendy! Wendy! Wendy! We need to borrow the golf cart so we can save Mabel from a zombie!" Wendy gives Hope the key and walks off, "Try not to hit any pedestrians." Hope gives Dipper the keys and flies to the top of the golf cart. Dipper gets in and starts to drive, but Soos stops him, "Dudes, it's me: Soos. This is for the zombies." He gives Dipper a shovel. Dipper replies with, "Thanks." Soos holds up a baseball bat, "And this is in case you see a piñata." Hope takes the bat and replies, "Uh... Thanks?" Dipper drives off. Soos yells out to them, "Better safe than sorry!" Back in the woods, Norman looks away from Mabel, "Uh, Mabel, now that we've gotten to know each other, there's…" He exhales. "...there's something I should tell you." A breeze goes across Norman's face. Mabel, looking concerned at Norman, "Oh, Norman, you can tell me anything!" She thinks to herself, "Please be a vampire, please be a vampire!" Norman turns back to Mabel, "All right, just...just don't freak out, okay? Just...just keep an open mind, be cool!" He unzips his coat and throws it off; underneath are five gnomes standing on top of each other. The top gnome speaks, "Is this weird? Is this too weird? Do you need to sit down?" Mabel stares at the gnomes in total shock. The top gnome explains, "R-r-right, I'll explain. So! We're gnomes. First off. Get that one outta the way." Mabel, still in total shock, "Uh…" The top gnome introduces himself and the other gnomes, "I'm Jeff, and here we have Carson, Steve, Jason and...I'm sorry, I always forget your name." The gnome than makes up the left foot says, "Schmebulock." Jeff, after snapping his fingers, "Schmebulock! Yes! Anyways, long story short, us gnomes have been lookin' for a new queen! Right, guys?" While this happens, Mabel has sat down on a tree trunk and slapped her left hand on her head. All the gnomes except Jeff shout, "Queen! Queen! Queen!" Jeff says, "Heh. So what do you say?" He taps Steve with his foot, and the gnomes work together to make "Norman" kneel in a proposing fashion, with a crystal on a ring in a ring box. "Will you join us in holy matrignomey? Matri...matri-mo-ny! Blah! Can't talk today!" Mabel looks at the gnomes, "Look... I'm sorry, guys. You're really sweet, but, I'm a girl, and you're gnomes, and it's like, "what"? Yikes…" Jeff, looking at Mabel, We understand. We'll never forget you, Mabel." The gnomes look sad and Mabel smiles "Because we're gonna kidnap you." Mabel asks, "Huh?" Jeff yells and jumps at her. Mabel screams.

As Dipper and Hope are driving through the woods, Dipper yells out, "Don't worry, Mabel! I'll save you from that zombie!" Hope asks, "You mean "we", right?" Dipper looks up at Hope and says, "Yeah, of course. We will save Mabel from the zombie." Mabel yells, "Help!" Hope yells out, "Hold on!" and drives into a hole and through a tunnel that leads to the gnomes. The gnomes are trying to pin down Mabel. Jeff yells out as Dipper and Hope drive closer behind him, "The more you struggle, the more awkward this is gonna be for everybody! Just, ha ha, okay. Get her arm there, Steve!" Mabel, yells out, with Steve biting her sweater arm, "Let go of me!" She punches Steve off and kicks another gnome. Steve bounces around, then stand upright and pukes a rainbow. Dipper asks, "What the heck is going on here?!" A gnome hisses at him and Hope. Mabel yells out to her brother and friend, "Dipper! Hope! Norman turned out to be a bunch of gnomes! And they're total jerks!" As a gnome pulls her hair, "Hair! Hair! Hair!" Hope looks on confused, "Gnomes? Huh, we were way off." She takes the journal out of Dipper's vest and looks through the book and gives it to Dipper when she reaches the gnomes page, and he reads the page aloud, "Gnomes: little men of the Gravity Falls Forest. Weaknesses: unknown." When Dipper lowers the book, he and Hope see that the gnomes have managed to tie Mabel to the ground. Mabel looking angry, "Aw, come on!" Dipper walks up to Jeff and demands him, "Hey, HEY! Let go of my sister!" Jeff, looking Dipper, says, "Oh! Ha ha, hey, there! Um, you know, this is all really just a big misunderstanding. You see, your sister's not in danger. She's just marrying all one thousand of us and becoming our gnome queen for all eternity! Isn't that right, honey?" Mabel yells at Jeff, "You guys are butt-faces!" A gnome covers her mouth, making Mabel's words unable to be heard. Hope holds up the bat Soos gave her, pointing it at Jeff, "Give her back right now, or else!" Jeff, with fury in his eyes, "You think you can stop us, creature? You have no idea what we're capable of. The gnomes are a powerful race! Do not trifle with the—" Hope hits Jeff away with the bat and Jeff screams. Dipper cuts Mabel free with the shovel. Mabel yells out, "Yah!" She kicks gnomes away; Dipper and Mabel get in the cart, with Hope flying to the top. Jeff yells out loud, "They're getting away with our queen! No, no, no!" Dipper looks at Mabel and says, "Seatbelt." Mabel buckles, and Hope yells, "Let's move!" Dipper backs up and then he drives away. Jeff yells out, "You've messed with the wrong creatures, boy and Wolf Dragon! Gnomes of the forest: ASSEMBLE!" Various gnomes come out and stack up. Mabel yells at her brother, "Hurry, before they come after us!" Dipper replies, "I wouldn't worry about it. See their little legs? Those suckers are tiny!" He stops the cart as he hears a stomping sound; a giant stacked gnome stops at the cart. Hope looks wide eyed, "Dang. I did not know they could do that." Jeff, on the top, using gnomes' hats like levers, "All right, teamwork, guys. Like we practiced." The gnomes growl. Mabel shouts, "Move, MOVE!" Dipper drives the cart away just as the gnomes smash their arm down and it breaks. The gnomes run frantically back into position and they chase the kids again. The gnomes try to grab them again, but Hope breathes fire out at them. Some of the gnomes get caught on fire, but they jump into a nearby lake and run back into position. Jeff yells out, "Come back with our queen!" Mabel yells out while looking back, "It's getting closer!" Hope yells back, "I can see that!", and blows fire at the gnomes. The Gnome Giant throws several gnomes at the cart. The gnomes chew cart and cause havoc. Hope yells at them, "Hey, get off!" as she swipes at them with her wolf paw and dragon claws. A gnome bites her back, but screams in pain while holding his mouth. Hope smiles with content as she knows that dragon scales are so hard, only the claw or tooth of a dragon and enchanted weapons can cut through them. A gnome that got past Hope, hangs from side of cart, "Ha ha!" Mabel elbow punches a gnome off. Shmebulock jumps up behind Dipper, who grabs him and slams him into the steering wheel out of annoyance. Schmebulock says weakly, "Schmebulock…" Dipper slams him one more time and lets him fall out of the cart. A gnome jumps onto the cart and claws Dipper's face. Mabel yells out, "I'll save you, Dipper!" Repeatedly punches the gnome off of Dipper's face and the gnome falls off with Dipper's hat. Dipper, dazed from the punches, "Thanks, Mabel…" Mabel smiling, "Don't mention it." The Gnome Giant picks up tree and throws it. Mabel shouts, "Look out!" Hope, Dipper and Mabel scream as the cart overturns, landing next to the Mystery Shack.

Hope pops out from behind the cart as Dipper and Mabel crawl out of the cart. The gnomes approaches. Dipper shouts, to the gnomes, "Stay back, man!" He throws the shovel at the gnome giant. The gnomes punch the shovel in mid-air. Dipper and Mabel Grab each other and scream. Dipper asks, "Uh, where's Grunkle Stan?!" Inside the Mystery Shack, Stan is with some tourists as he is holding up a swirly pattern on a stick, "Behold! The world's most distracting object." The tourists look on in amazement, "Oooh…" Stan, looking at the object as well, "Just try to look away, you can't! I can't even remember what I was talking about." Jeff yells at the three, "It's the end of the line, kids and Wolf Dragon! Mabel, marry us before we do something crazy!" Hope yells, "Over my dead body!" Dipper shouts out, "There's gotta be a way out of this!" He's about to get out the journal, but Mabel walk forward and says, "I gotta do it." Dipper tries to talk sense into his sister, "What?! Mabel, don't do this! Are you crazy?" Mabel says to Dipper, "Trust me." Hope asks, "What?" Mabel says, "Dipper, Hope, just this once. Trust me!" Dipper and Hope glance at gnomes, then Mabel, then back away. Mabel, looking at the gnomes, "All right, Jeff. I'll marry you." Jeff shouts in excitement, "Hot dog! Help me down there, Jason!" He climbs down to her. "Thanks, Andy! All right, left foot, there we go, watch those fingers, Mike." He approaches Mabel and holds out the diamond ring. "Eh? Eh?" Mabel holds out her hand and Jeff puts the ring on her hand. "Bada-bing, bada-bam! Now let's get you back into the forest, honey!" Mabel says, while admiring the ring, "You may now kiss the bride!" Jeff looks surprised, but then says, "Well, don't mind if I do." He leans up to kiss Mabel. Mabel leans out to kiss Jeff, then takes out leaf blower. Jeff yells out, "Ah! Hey, hey, wait a minute! Whoa, whoa! Wh-what's goin' on?!" He gets sucked half-way into leaf-blower. Mabel shouts, "That's for lying to me!" She increases the sucking power. "THAT'S for breaking my heart!" Jeff, slowly getting sucked in further, "Ow! My face!" Mabel yells, "And THIS is for messing with my brother and friend! She aims at the gnomes, and says to Dipper, "Wanna do the honors?" Dipper responds, "On three!" Hope, Dipper and Mabel say at the same time, "One, two, three!" The blast Jeff towards the gnome monster, and the Gnome Giant explodes into separate gnomes. Jeff, while flying off into the distance, "I'll get you back for this!..." The other gnomes scream when they fall. One gnome asks, "Who's giving orders? I need orders!" Another gnome says, "My arms are tired." Dipper, while Mabel moves the leaf blower back and forth, blowing gnomes away, asks the gnomes, "Anyone else want some?" The gnomes run off on all fours and one gets caught in a six-pack holder. Gompers picks the six-pack holder up and runs off. The gnome in the six-pack holder screams in the background. Mabel looking sad, "Hey, Hope, Dipper? I, um...I'm sorry for ignoring your advice. You and Hope really were just looking out for me." Hope replies, "It's alright, Mabel. You don't have to apologize." Dipper smiling at his sister then says, "Oh, don't be like that. You saved our butts back there." Mabel, still looking sad, "I guess I'm just sad that my first boyfriend turned out to be a bunch of gnomes." Dipper, looking hopeful, "Look on the bright side. Maybe the next one will be a vampire!" Mabel says, "Oh, you're just saying that!" Hope says, "There actually are a few vampires here." Dipper, holding his hands out wide, "Awkward sibling hug?" Mabel, also holding her arms out wide, "Awkward sibling hug." Dipper & Mabel hug and pat each other, "Pat, pat." Mabel asks Hope, "One thing I don't get, how did you know about the Journal?" Dipper agrees, "Yeah, did you know the author?" Hope sighs and grabs the Journal from Dipper. She takes a dragon claw and scratches at the edge of the book. Dipper and Mabel gasp, but are then surprised to see that Hope unlocked a secret page. She hands the Journal back to Dipper, and he reads the page, "In 1425, a brave 16 year old girl by the name of Rose Pines made a deal with a demon to save her town. The girl was then turned into…" The page is revealed to show Hope drawn on it. Mabel gasps, "Hope? Is this really you?" Hope sighs, "Yep. I was born a human in 1409, but then I made that deal. I've been like this ever since. I helped the author make the Journal. That's how I knew about it. I helped him to try and see if I can find a way to kill the demon who cursed me to be like this for a million years. I pretty much made a blood oath that I would never tell anyone about him or the journal." Dipper then realizes, "Wait, if your last name is Pines, then that must mean, you're our ancestor!" Hope nods, and Dipper and Mabel look toward each other and nod. Mabel then puts a hand on Hope's body, "Don't worry, Hope. We'll help you." Hope asks, "Are you sure? It'll be dangerous." Dipper says, "Don't worry about it. The three of us can take on anything." Hope then wipes a tear forming in her eyes and says, "Thanks guys." and she hugs the twins. The three walk into the Mystery Shack. Stan, with money in his hands, "Yeesh. You three get hit by a bus or something? Ahah!" Hope, Dipper and Mabel begin to walk away. "Uh, hey! W-wouldn't you know it? Um, I accidentally overstocked some inventory, so, uh...how's about each of you kids take one item from the gift shop? On the house, y'know?" Mabel asks, "Really?" Dipper, folding his arms, "What's the catch?" Stan replies, "The catch is do it before I change my mind, now take something." Dipper and Mabel look around at items. Dipper picks up a blue pine tree hat from one of the shelves and looks in a mirror, "Hmm. That oughta do the trick!" Mabel says, "And I will have a…" She grabs an item from box, hides it, and twirls around. "GRAPPLING HOOK! Yes!" Stan, to Dipper, "Wouldn't she rather have, like, a doll, or something?" Mabel fires the grappling hook up at the ceiling; it catches and pulls her up, while tilting a box that says "Fragile", "GRAPPLING HOOK!" Stan, looking up at Mabel, "Fair enough!" Hope asks, "Wonder what situation that will be useful in?" Hope, Mabel and Dipper are now in their bedroom. Dipper is writing while Mabel jumps on her bed, laughing, an Hope is curled up on the floor. Dipper, writing in Journal while narrating, "This journal told me there was no one in Gravity Falls I could trust." Looking at Mabel and Hope, "But when you battle a hundred gnomes side-by-side with two people, you realize that they've probably always got your back." Mabel shoots grappling hook, then reels it back with a stuffed animal attached. Dipper asks, "Hey, Hope, could you get the light?" Hope gets up, but Mabel says, "I'm on it!" She knocks light out the window with the grappling hook. "It works!" Hope, Dipper and Mabel laugh. "Grappling hook…" Dipper, while narrating, "Our uncle told us there was nothing strange about this town. But who knows what other secrets are waiting to be unlocked." Stan walks in the shack holding a lantern. He goes into the gift shop and puts a code into the vending machine. The machine opens, and Stan walks inside, looking side-to-side before closing it behind him. In the end, Steve pukes a rainbow for several seconds with a cryptogram that can be solved with a Caesar cipher: ZHOFRPH WR JUDYLWB IDOOV