Dipper and Mabel sat at the dinning room table, the spare treasure from the unicorns is sitting at their feet. Mabel is working in her scrapbook and Dipper is helping her by cutting up some pictures she's drawn and occasionally writing some things in it.
"Stanley where are you going?" they hear Ford say as the pair walk past the living room and dining room combo.
"None of your business," comes the reply as The Twins hear the stairs squeak.
The Twins walk to the doorway to see their Gruncle Ford looking up the stairs, "Great Uncle Ford?"
Ford turns to them and crouches down, "what is it children?"
"What was that about?" Dipper asks.
Ford looks back up the stairs, "there was a disagreement."
Mabel walks past Ford and sets her foot on the stairs, "I'll go talk to him."
Ford looks at all the glues and scrap paper on the table, "what are you working on there, Dipper?"
"Hm? Oh I'm helping Mabel with her Scrapbook," he answers, walking over to the pink book and picking it up.
Dipper walks back over and hands it to him, "you missed a lot."
Ford looks at the pink book in his hands. He's not sure he wants to open it, "will she mind?"
"No, in fact she'll be very happy if you looked through it. Don't be fazed at some of the stuff she has in there," Dipper says, hopping onto Stan's recliner and looking at Ford expectantly. Ford flips open to the first page, a picture of Stan with a couple of grumpy looking kids in it. Well one of them looked bored, the other tried her best to look happy. As he flips through the book it starts to get happier, Dipper's handwriting making an occasional appearance as well. Ford pauses at the page with him when he 'returned' from the portal and smiles when he reads what she and Dipper put. The Scrapbook adventure is short lived when a small body barrels into him and he topples into the living room.
"Sorry Great Uncle Ford!" Mabel says as she scurries to his rescue.
Ford slowly picks himself up, fixing his glasses, "it's alright, that was my fault."
Mabel picks up her Scrapbook and looks at Ford, "So what'd you think?"
"Pardon?"
"Our summer, silly!"
"Ah, yes, well it seemed like you had a fun time with Stanley," he says with a forced smile.
Not fazed, Mabel flips to different part of her book and shows it to Ford, "here's what we were working on!"
Ford couldn't help but grin truly, they were just putting in some stuff on him and how he's fitting in.
"You OK there Poindexter?" a voice says behind them and Ford looks to Stan. Stan doesn't look particularly happy.
"Gruncle Stan!" Dipper yells from his spot on the recliner.
Stan grins and moves over to him, "what's up kiddo?"
"Not much, just showing Great Uncle Ford our summer so far," he answers, mirroring Stan's grin.
Ford closes the Scrapbook and hands it to Mabel, "great work there Mabel."
Mabel grins and sets the book back on the table, "thanks Great Uncle Ford!"
Stan grins at the kids and looks at his brother, "we still need food, we can't stay behind this bubble forever."
"He's right you know," Dipper says in agreement.
Ford caves in, "OK, OK we can leave the bubble for food."
"I have an idea! Lets all go shopping, that way if one of us is in trouble, we'll all be!" Mabel suggests out of the blue.
"What about the shack?" Stan questions.
Ford beams, "Bubble. That's the genius of it Stanley, we don't have to watch it constantly."
Mabel jumps excitedly in place, "alright! Lets go to the mall!"
"C'mon Poindexter, you're the only one who actually uses boot polish so you have to come with us anyway," Stan says with a grin.
Ford sighs, "OK I'm coming."
They exit the house and file into the Stanmobile. Wendy walks up to the drivers seat where Stan is.
Stan rolls down his window, "what is it Wendy?"
"Be careful out there Mr. Pines, other Mr. Pines, Mabel, Dipper," she says, knowing full well what's out there. They drive off into town and to the Gravity Falls Mall. Dipper and Mabel hop out of the car before Stan and Ford.
Mabel turns to Ford, "So Great Uncle Ford, were do you want to go?"
"Weren't we going to stick together, Mabel?" he muses.
Mabel pauses and thinks for a bit, "oh yeah."
"We're going shopping for food first," Stan says, gesturing to the shop.
They enter the store and Stan grabs a cart, "grab stuff that won't spoil easily." Dipper and Mabel nod as Stan pushes the cart down the isles. The cart was quickly filled with various food stuffs, mostly canned beans. Ford put in some Oj and chocolate for himself.
Ford is loading the groceries into the trunk when he spots Stan walking up to him, "what is it Stanley?"
"When you first got out of the portal you were very against going outside."
"Mabel makes a good point," Ford says, gesturing to the small child sitting in the back-seat with her brother.
Stan watches Ford push some of the sacks down to fit the bag with water bottles in the trunk. Ford closes the trunk and looks to his brother, "shall we go?" Stan nods and they get into the car.
They arrive back at the house and start unloading the food. They have parked just outside of the bubble. Ford grabs the bag with the water in it and is about to go inside when they all hear laughter. Stan and the Mystery Twins step up next to him as the unmistakable shape of Bill Cipher appears.
"YOU MADE A MISTAKE. I THOUGH YOU WOULD BE BETTER AT CHESS THAN THIS, FORDSY."
"Wha?"
"CHECKMATE." He snaps his fingers and they all disappear.