Chapter 1

It was 6 am in the morning, and the sun was out. I woke up early yawning as I stretched my legs out. I rubbed my eyes to rid the crusts before I moved out of bed to go to the bathroom.

I washed up my tired face, brushed my teeth clean and minty, and smoothed out the knots from my long hair. Having long hair is kind of annoying, I tried cutting it, but it grew back after hours later. I was frustrated at first, but I just gave up on it and let it grow. You know, having long hair wasn't actually bad; it made me a little more handsome, to be honest.

Stan was still asleep and so was Mabel, but I didn't want to wake them. So instead of making or eating breakfast, I went outside instead. I cautiously looked around to see if there were tourists around. When there weren't any, I came out of the door walking forward to the forest. I didn't bring the journal with me since I just want to take a small walk in the forest. I made a note to myself not to go as far away from the shack.

As I looked around viewing the majestic beauty of the forest, I felt almost right at home with the fresh scent of bloomed wildflowers, pine trees, and dead leaves. It was all great and wonderful until someone saw me. "Hey!"

My body freezes when I heard that voice. I was breathing heavily with my heart beating like a drum, my skin sweating raindrops, and my eyes widened in fear. I slowly turned my head to see a kid standing in behind me looking at me. He was two inches taller than me, has golden blond hair with his bangs covering up his right instead of his left, has bright hazel eyes, wore a yellow collared shirt with short sleeves with a black bowtie, suspenders that was attached to his plaid shorts, and muddy knee-high boots.

I was scared as I mentally scolded myself for being so stupid for being distracted.

He continues to look at me while I was standing like an actual deer who saw the headlights of a car before it`s killed. I didn't know what to do; if I leave, he`ll tell everyone and I put myself and my family in danger, but if I stay, maybe he`ll kill me and eat me for dinner. I didn't know which is worse, and I didn't know what to do.

"Hey!" the boy called, startling me when I was lost in my thoughts. I slowly looked at him in the eye and waited for his next response. He started to grin, "Are you a cervitaur?"

I didn't reply with words but a nod. "So you`re half deer and half man..?"

Again I nodded before I waited for his reply.

The boy smiled more, "That`s so cool!"

I was surprised at his reactions towards me, but I was still cautious.

"What`s your name?" the boy asked.

"…D-dipper…" I mentally slapped myself for giving my name to a stranger.

"Dipper…please to meet you, Dipper..! The name`s William, but you can call me Will," he holds out his hand for a shake.

"Nice to meet you too…." I shakenly shook his hand. "A-a-are you going to tell the others what you saw…? Please don't, please! I don't want to be sent to the FBI, or—"

"Calm down, kid—yeesh, and they say I`m paranoid," he said.

"So are you…"

"I could, but I won`t. Besides what`s the fun in that? I finally found something that interests me in my whole life instead of hearing my parents talking about money or jewels," he yelled, cheering.

I looked at him weirdly.

"So yeah, I`m not going to tell—in one condition," he pointed out.

I thought about it thinking that it`s a bad idea, but then again my family will be in danger if I don't agree, so I had no choice. "Okay, what`s your condition?"

"You meet me every day on this same spot starting tomorrow at maybe three in the afternoon, but you don't come here by then. You know what happens."

I looked at him confusingly. "What that`s it, aren't you going to—you know—keep me as a pet or have me for lunch?!"

"Yeesh kid, relax! I`m not going to kill or eat you or even keep you! I may be just a kid, but I`m not stupid! Besides you`re too cute to be eaten or killed," he winked at him playfully causing me to blush. "Well, I got to go, my parents must be wondering where I am now. So remember, Dipper, be here tomorrow at three!"

He waved goodbye to me before he left. I waved back with a blush still on my face.

I don't know what else to do but to go home.


Grunkle Stan and Mabel were awake, and they were in the kitchen where I had a syrup contest with her.

I didn't tell her about Will and what happened to us back in the forest. I want to tell her, but I don't want her to freak out. So I`ll lay low for now.

My sister was in her mermaid form since there weren't any tourists in the shack for now. She was in her mobile mini tank next to me. She cheered, "All right, are you ready for the ultimate challenge!?"

"I`m always ready," I cheered along.

"Syrup race!" we both shouted before we began the race.

"Go Sir Syrup!" Mabel tilted her bottle.

"Go Mountain man!"

We cheered until Mabel won before she coughed from the thickness of the syrup. I picked up a magazine as I read through it until an ad caught my eye. "Whoa, hey Mabel, check this out!" I pointed to it.

"Human-sized hamster balls?" she read the wrong ad then she`d gasp in excitement. "I`m human-sized—well technically I`m a mermaid, but I`m still half-human!"

"No, no not that, this..!" I pointed to where I was reading, a monster hunting contest. "We have seen weirder stuff than anything we ever have seen before, so if we can get a picture of one monster, we could win a thousand dollar! We can split the money."

"Whoa, that would be awesome!" Mabel grinned.

"We didn't get a picture of those gnomes, right?" I asked.

"Nah, just memories and this beard hair," she held up a long dirty strand of white hair.

"Ew, why did you save that?" I looked at it disgustingly.

"I don't know," then Grunkle Stan walked in the kitchen in his human form. (A.N. Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that Stan can shift into his human form, but he`s still not a shapeshifter only a gargoyle. But to make sense, Grunkle Stan can shift into his human form in the day time but he can shift into his original form (only temporary). At night, he stays in his original form till morning.)

"Good morning, Knuckleheads. You two know what day it is?"

"We don't know?" I said before getting lightly smacked by a rolled up newspaper by the back of my head.

"It`s family fun day, genius!" he walked over to the fridge to pick up a carton of milk. "We`re cutting off work and having one of those family times, you know—"he sniffed the milk carton. "—bonding-type deals."

"Grunkle Stan, is it going to be anything like our last family bonding day?" I asked. "Remember what happened last time; we were making illegal counterfeit money, and we got send to the county jail for nearly three days."

"The county jail was so cold," Mabel shuddered at the memory.

"All right, maybe I haven't been the best summer caretaker," he stated. "But I swear, today we`re going to have some real family fun—now who wants to put on some blindfolds and get into my car!?"

"Yay," we cheered.

"Wait, what?" I realized.


We got into the car where Mabel and I were wearing blindfolds while Grunkle Stan was driving. I didn't like the idea where we were blinded; it makes me feel like I`m being kidnapped.

"Blindfolds never lead to anything cool," I held my front knees to my chest on the seat.

"Wow, I feel like all my other senses are heightened! I can see with my fingers!" Mabel said as she tried touching my face in which I was laughing nervously from her touches.

"Grunkle Stan, where exactly are we going? I mean, is it a place where there`s no people because I don't think we brought my wheelchair if there were?"

"Relax, I brought your wheelchair before we even went," he reassured.

"And another question, are you wearing a blindfold?" I asked worriedly.

"Nah, but with these cataracts, I might as well be. What is that, a woodpecker?" I felt him driving through wood causing me and Mabel to scream.


"Okay, open `em up," we took off the blindfolds to see a lake with the town fishing in boats and buying supplies from a fishing shed.

"Ta da, it`s fishing season!" Stan shouted eagerly.

"Huh, fishing?" Mabel questioned.

"What are you playing at, old man?" I looked at him suspiciously.

"You`re gonna love it! The whole town`s out there!" we looked out to see Lazy Susan trying fish with a frying pan, Toby taking a picture of a man holding a large fish, and Manly Dan fishing with his sons while Tyler was cheering for them.

"That`s some quality family bonding!" Stan smiled.

"Grunkle Stan, are you sure we should be fishing with all these people here? I mean, what happens if someone discovers our secret, mainly Mabel?" I pointed to Mabel. It`s true; whenever Mabel touched water, she turns back into her real form. I don't want her secret or ours to be discovered.

"Come on, this is going to be great! I`ve never had fishing buddies before, and the guys from the lodge won`t go with me. They don't 'like' or 'trust' me," he quoted with his fingers.

"I think he actually wants to fish with us," Mabel looked at me.

"Hey, I know what`ll cheer your sad sacks up! POW! " Stan placed fishing hats onto our heads. "Pines family fishing hats! That `s hand-stitching, you know. It`s just gonna be you, me and those goofy hats on a boat for about ten hours!"

"Ten hours!" I exclaimed.

"I brought the joke book!" he grinned, held up a book of one thousand terrible jokes.

"No, no!" I shuddered fearing for my life. I hate bad jokes; they`re stupid and horrifying.

"There has to be a way out of this!" Mabel whispered to me until we heard a loud shout.

"I`ve seen it, I saw it again!" Old man Mcgucket shouted before rushing into the center of the attention. "The Gravity Falls Gobblewonker! Come quick before it scraps doodles away!" he started dancing randomly slapping his knee.

"Aww, he`s doing a happy jog!" Mabel said.

"No, it`s a jig of great danger!" he grabbed her shoulder before a man started spraying him with water. "Hey, hey, now what did I tell you about scaring my customers? This is the last warning, dad!"

"But I got proof this, by uppity!" Old Man Mcgucket shouted before showing the crowd and his son a wrecked boat. "Behold, it`s the monster`s work! It had a long neck like a giraffe and wrinkly skin like this gentleman right here," he pointed to Stan.

"It chewed my boat before it went back to Scuttlebutt Island," he pointed to the island far from us. "You got to believe me!"

Then a boat where Sheriff Bulbs and his Deputy had arrived at the scene, "Attention all units, we got ourselves a crazy old man!" he said causing everyone to laugh at the old man but Stan and us. His son just frowned and shook his head in disappointment before walking away along the crowd.

"Aww, donkey spittle, Banjo polish!" the old man walked away in shame.

"Well that happened, now to untie this boat and get out to the lake!" Stan exclaimed, stepping into his rowboat and started to untie it from the dock.

"Hey Mabel, did you hear what that old dude said?" I asked.

"Aww, donkey spittle," she mimicked McGucket.

"The other thing, about the monster—if we could get a photo of it, we can get the prize. Imagine what you can do with the money!" I grinned excitedly.

"Dipper, I am one million percent on board on this!" she exclaimed.

"Grunkle Stan, change of plans! We`re taking that boat to Scuttlebutt Island, and we`re going to go find that Gobblewonker," I said.

"You dudes say something about a monster hunt?" Soos came to us with his boat.

"Soos," Mabel exclaimed fist bumping him making explosion noises.

"Dudes, you totally use my boat for your hunt," he volunteered. "It got a steering wheel, chairs, and normal boat stuff." He patted the sides.

"All right, all right, let`s think this through," Grunkle Stan said. "You kids could go waste your time on some monster hunt, or you can go fishing with your Grunkle Stan!" he smiled eagerly.

And the next thing he knows, we went with Soos to our monster hunt!

We laughed with Soos while heading towards Scuttlebutt Island, leaving Stan behind.

"We made the right choice!" Mabel exclaimed.

"Yes," Soos agreed.

"Hoist the anchors!" I order cheerfully. Soos heaved a large mossy brick block from underwater. "Raise the flag!" Mabel raised a towel that said "Fun".

"We going to go find that Gobblewonker…!"

"We`re going to take those pictures…!"

"We`re going to win that photo contest…!"

"Does any of you dudes have sunscreen?" Soos asked.

"We`re going to get…sunscreen…!"

"Yay," we all shouted with Soos steering the boat back to shore to get sunscreen.


I paced around in my wheelchair in front of Mabel and Soos, thinking of a plan to get an actual picture of the lake monster.

"All right, if we want to win this contest, we got to do it right!" I started. "Think. What's the number one problem with most monster hunts?

"If you're a side character, you die in the first five minutes of the movie," Soos said, making everyone look over to him. He thought over what he said. "Dude, am I a side character? Do you ever think about stuff like that?" He panicked.

"No, no, no. Camera trouble! Say Bigfoot shows up. Soos, be Bigfoot?" I asked.

Soos struck a dramatic pose, making Mabel snicker.

"There he is! Bigfoot..!" I shouted in character as I pretend to find my camera.

"Uh-oh, no camera…!" I said in a fake concerned voice. "Oh wait! Here's one! Aw, no film- you see? You see what I'm doing here?" I motioned to them with facts.

"Oh, yeah, dude's got a point," Soos nodded.

"That's why I bought TWENTY disposable cameras!" I stressed. "Two under my blanket, three in my jacket, four for each of you, two extras in this bag, and one under my hat…! There's no way we're gonna miss this. Okay, everybody, let's test our cameras out!"

Soos tried to take a picture, but it was facing the wrong way that the flash made him accidently drop the camera overboard. "Ah, dude!"

"You see? This is exactly why you need backup cameras! We still have nineteen!"

A bird flew near Mabel's head causing her to freak out. "Ah! Bird..!" She threw one of the cameras at the bird, she missed.

"Fifteen…! Okay guys, I repeat, 'Don't lose your cameras'," I was annoyed by now.

"Wait, lose the cameras?" Soos asked.

"DON"T…!" I stressed.

"Dude, I just threw two away," Soos said.

"Thirteen! All right! We still have thirteen cameras-" I then accidentally broke one with my fist when he punched downwards in anger. "Twelve. We have twelve cameras."

"So what's the plan? Throw more cameras overboard or what?" Mabel asked, lifting up her bag of cameras.

"No!" I shouted in panic before calming down and laughing nervously. "No. Okay. Mabel, you'll be the lookout. Soos can work the steering wheel."

"Okay…and I…will be captain."

"What? Why do you get to be captain?" Mabel asked. "What about Mabel, huh…? Mabel! Mabel! Mabel! Mabel!" She gestured to herself with her thumbs repeatedly.

"I'm not sure that's a good idea," I said.

"What about co-captains?" She asked.

"There's no such thing as co-captains," I deadpanned.

"Uh, whoops," Mabel purposely tossed a camera behind her overboard.

"Okay, fine! You can be co-captains," I relented, not wanting to lose any more cameras.

"Can I be associated co-captain?" Soos asked.

"As co-captain we authorize that request," Mabel said.

"Well as the first captain, our number one order of business is to lure the monster out with this," I gestured to a barrel of fish food.

"Permission to taste some…?" Soos asked.

"Granted," Dipper immediately said.

"Permission co-granted," Mabel said.

"Permission associate co-granted," Soos cautiously licked a piece of fish food before he immediately gagged wiping at his tongue fervently. We started laughing at him. "Ah…dude. I don't know what I expected that to taste like."

"Oh Soos," I wiped a tear.

The S.S. Cool Dude was approaching Scuttlebutt Island. We couldn't see anything clearly since there was fog everywhere. Soos is at the back of the boat shoveling fish food over the side. Mabel and I are at the front. I was trying to see through the fog while Mabel was playing ventriloquist with a pelican.

"Hey, how's it going?" Mabel asked in a gruff voice while she took the pelican's mouth with her hand, moving it down and up.

"It's going awesome! Bow bow, but bow!"

"Mabel, leave that bird alone," I said.

"Aw, I don't mind any!" She said.

"Hey look I'm drinking water!" she took out a glass of water and began to drink it.

"Twinkle, twinkle, and little star-" She then started to choke on the water making the pelican fly away in fright.

"Aren't you supposed to be doing lookout?" I asked her.

"Look out!" She said and threw a volleyball at me, hitting me in the arm.

'Where do they get these random objects from?' Katy thought.

I whimpered, rubbing his arm from the pain while Mabel snickered.

"Heh, heh…but seriously, I'm on it," She continued until the boat jolted to a sudden stop, crashing into the shore of the island.

"See? We're here! I'm a lookout genius! Hamster ball, here we come!" Mabel shouted, climbing out the boat.


We all eventually disembarked the boat and ventured into the foggy woods. Soos helped me by pushing my wheelchair forward. Soon we came to a large sign nailed to a tree that said "Scuttlebutt Island'. Soos, Katy and Mabel stopped in front of it.

"Dudes, check it out," Soos started, covering the 'Scuttle' part of the sign with his arm. "Butt Island..." Soos and Mabel started laughing.

"Soos, you rapscallion…!" Mabel said. She looked over at me and noticed I wasn't smiling. "Hey! Why aren't you laughing? Are you…scared?" I immediately started denying.

"Pssh! Yeah right…!" Dipper continued. "I'm not-"

"Yeah you are!" Mabel interrupted me, poking him on the nose and blowing a raspberry. I yelled out in surprise, the lantern dropping from my hand.

"Hey!" I shouted but stopped when Mabel continued poking me and blowing raspberries.

"Quit..! Stop! Mabel!"

Suddenly, a loud growling noise sounded in the distance. Mabel stopped teasing me, and we looked around. Soos came up to them.

"Dude…did you guys hear that?" He asked.

"What was that? Was it your stomach?" Mabel asked him.

"Nah, my stomach normally sounds like whale noises," Soos said. Mabel put her head on Soos's stomach to clarify. "Wow, so majestic!"

A possum then scurried up to us and grabbed the lantern on the floor, running away with it.

"Our lantern…!" I shouted. The fog then suddenly became more pronounced. "Aww…! I can't see anything!"

"Dudes, I don't know man. Maybe this, uh…Maybe this isn't worth it," Soos said reasonably, seeing as we were on a lone island with fog surrounding us and mysterious growling noises were being heard.

"Not worth it?" I asked incredulously. "Guys, imagine what would happen if we got that picture!"

"I'm in!" Dipper shouted in real life, smiling.

"Me too!" Mabel said, also smiling.

"All right, dudes! I'm coming'!" Soos said chasing them.

We had been walking for a while, still in a search until Soos started beat boxing to relieve the boredom.

"My name is Mabel!" Mabel rapped to his beat boxing. "It rhymes with the table! It also rhymes with…gable! It also rhymes with…Schnabel!"

"Dude, we should be writing this down," Soos commented.

"Guys, guys, guys, do you hear something?" I asked, holding a camera. The growling noise from earlier could be heard; a flock of birds flew overhead away from the sound.

"This is it! This is it!" We grinned punching each other excitedly. Soos grabbed a stick and followed them into the fog. There was a shadowed image of something sitting on top of the lake in the distance. The team took cover behind a log.

"Everyone, get your cameras ready!" I shouted. "Ready? Go!"

Soos then yelled as he jumped over a log, holding his camera in front of him as he ran towards the monster, snapping photos at random. We followed him. However, when we got close, the 'monster' turned out to be just the remains of a wrecked boat with beavers living on it.

On the shore, Soos happily took photos of the beavers while Mabel and I were confused.

"But...But what was that noise, then? I heard a monster noise!" I insisted, but the 'monster noise' turned out just to be a beaver playing with a rusty old chainsaw.

"Sweet! Beaver with a chainsaw…" Soos said taking a picture of it.

"Maybe that old dude was crazy after all," Dipper said dejectedly.

"He did use the word 'scrap doodle'," Mabel said.

Soos continued to take pictures of the beavers. "Ooh, yeah! Work it! Work it!" Soos said to a particular beaver in front of him. "Nice! Nice! Gimme another one of those! Yeah, I like that one."

"What're we gonna say to Grunkle Stan? We ditched him for nothing," I threw a branch into the lake, frowning. Until the ground started to shake. "Hey…Guys, do you feel that?"

My wheelchair then fell down along with me. "Hey, hey, whoa, whoa…!" I shouted as Mabel helped me back up.

Then the actual gobblewonker started to swim around in the water.

"This is it!" I grinned again without a shade of disappointment as I held up my camera. I started taking a picture. "Come on! This is our chance! What's wrong with you guys?"

Their faces were stunned and pale.

"Dipper…?" Mabel cautioned.

"Dude…?" Soos backed up. I was oblivious that the Gobblewonker started to rise out of the water behind me.

"It's not that hard, all right?" I said. "All you got to do is to point, and shoot. Like this!" when I turned and aimed the camera at the gobblewonker, I realized it was very big when it`s right in front of me. He dropped the camera in shock, and then Gobblewonker let loose a roar.

"Run!" Soos shouted. "Get back to the boat! Hurry…!"

"I can`t, my wheelchair is—"I was cut off when Mabel grabbed my hand and pulled me out of the way where my deer form is exposed. "Mabel—"

"Stop yapping and starting running!" she dragged me as hard as we ran leaving my wheelchair behind to be destroyed by the Gobblewonker.

While we continued to run away from the incoming monster in a frenzy, Soos noticed my deer form.

"Dude, you`re a half man and half deer…?"Soos looked shocked.

"Soos as much as I want to explain this to you, now not a good time…!" I yelled still running.

A tree just got knocked down by the gobblewonker which nearly hit us, but we ducked out of the way. Soos then grabbed me and Mabel.

I then accidently dropped the camera, "The picture!"

"Dude, if it makes you feel any better, I got tons of pictures of those beavers dude!" Soos said.

"WHY WOULD THAT MAKE ME FEEL BETTER?!" I yelled.

We all finally reached back to the boat on shore.

"Let's get out of here, dudes!" Soos shouted starting to drive the boat away, but the monster continued to follow us.

"All right! This is it!" I tried to take a picture, the lens was cracked. "Cracked lens?! Soos! Get a photo!"

Soos was too busy throwing cameras as the monster.

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!"

"Oh! I still got one left! Don't worry dude!" He threw a camera to me, but it missed and broke. When the gobblewonker stepped into the water and tried to eat us, Soos steered the ship and escaped from it.

"Go, go, go, and go, And GO!" I was no longer concerned about the pictures, now I`m more concerned about escaping for our lives! The gobblewonker then swung its head toward the ship which we all ducked missing a very painful experience as the entire top part of the boat was ripped off.

The monster sank under water and began to swim after them.

"Soos, beavers!" Mabel shouted. The boat crashed into the beaver dam, and beavers were flying everywhere.

"Ah!" I screamed as one beaver started chomping on my head, Mabel tried to get the beavers off her, and one of the beavers went on Soos's face, making him scream and let go of the wheel. Mabel's eyes widened as she leaped forward trying to steer the boat.

She drove through the town folk on the lake while the monster was hitting all of them off their boats from underneath the water.

The gobblewonker was still chasing them, making Mabel drive into a dead end.

"Where do I go?" She asked desperately.

We all looked around only to see there was nowhere to go but the falls in front of them.

"Um…uh…" I quickly brought the journal out of my vest flipping through it. "Go into the falls! I think there might be a cave behind there!"

"MIGHT BE?!" Mabel shouted.

We all screamed as Mabel ran the boat right into the waterfall. Luckily, there WAS a cave behind it, but the boat hitting onto the shore. The rapid stop caused us to fly out of the ruined vessel onto the ground, leaving them to watch as the gobblewonker came in too. We screamed again but stopped when the monster got stuck in the opening.

"It's stuck!" Mabel cheered.

"Ha-ha! Yeah! "Wait…It's stuck?" With eager, I quickly tried to find a camera until I found one from my hat. I grinned and laughed, taking shots of the monster. The monster snapped its teeth at me once, but I kept on taking photos.

"Did you get a good one?" Mabel asked.

"They're all good ones!" I hugged her.

"WOO! HAMSTER-BALL..!" Mabel shouted.

The celebration stopped when a boulder above the cave entrance landed onto the gobblewonker, making the monster's head fall down to the floor with an unexpected electric noise. The yellow glow from the eyes had flickered out?

"What the…?" I climbed to get closer to the gobblewonker. "Huh?"

"What's wrong?" Mabel asked.

I kicked it only to make a hollow, metallic sound. I then climbed up the gobblewonker.

"Careful, dude..!" Soos shouted.

"Yea, be careful Dipper!"

"I've got this! Hold on…! Wait, hey guys! Come check this out!" The rest of the gang climbed up the gobblewonker to where I was. I had discovered a metal, rusted handle, so I turned it opening it which revealed Old Man McGucket controlling the machine, madly pushing buttons and pulling levers.

"Work the bellow and the…Eh?" He talked to himself before realizing we had found him. "Aww, banjo polish…!"

"You?! You made this?! W-Why?!" I spluttered incredulously.

"Well, I…I, uh…"McGucket struggled before sighing. "I just wanted attention."

"We still don't understand."

"Well, first I just hootenannies up a biomechanical brain wave generator, and then I learned to operate a stick-shift with my beard!" He told us, showing how he used his beard to operate one of the levers.

"Okay, yeah," Mabel said uncomfortably. "But why did you do it?"

"Well, when you get to be an old fella like me, nobody pays any attention to you anymore," He explained. "My own son hasn't visited me in months! So I figured maybe I'd catch his fancy with a fifteen-ton aquatic robot!" He started laughing maniacally before sighing in shame. "In retrospect, it seems a bit contrived. You just don't know the length us old-timers go through for a little quality time with our family."

Mabel and I shared a look before slowly taking out the fishing hats Grunkle Stan gave us before collectively sighing.

"Dude, I guess the real lake monster is you two," Soos said, and we glared up at him not appreciating his comment. "Heh, heh! Sorry, it just like, boom, just popped into my head there—just like Dipper revealing his deer form!" he pointed to my four legs.

"Oh gosh Soos, I forgot to tell you," I slapped myself. "Soos, I`m so sorry that we kept this secret from you—It was because we were afraid that you might tell the others about us, and well we also thought you might find us as freaks…"

"We`re sorry, Soos…" Mabel held her head down.

Soos took a deep breath before he suddenly hugged us. "Dudes listen, I`m not going to tell. Why, because you dudes are amazing. After all the things we did together, you guys are awesome to hang out with, and you`re even more awesome today. And dudes, there is no way you guys are freaks, you`re special, so special in your own ways, and nothing going to change that."

Mabel and I smiled brightly at him before hugging him back too. Then Mabel turned to McGucket.

"So, did you ever talk to your son about how you felt?" Mabel asked.

"No, sir, I got to work straight on the robot! I made lots of robots in my day! Like when my wife left I and I created a homicidal pterodactyl-Tron, or when my pal Ernie didn't come to my retirement party and I constructed an eighty ton SHAME BOT THAT EXPLODED THE ENTIRE DOWNTOWN AREA!" He laughed insanely again. "Well, time to get back to work on my death ray!" Some construction noises were heard. "Any of you kids got a screwdriver?"

The kids turned and ignored him, feeling fiddle guiltily.

"Well, so much for the contest," I sighed.

"You still have the camera," Mabel started. "It's still got one roll of film left."

"What do you want to do with it?" I asked her in a slightly happy, resigned tone.


"Hey, over here…!" I shouted, taking a photo of Stan. Stan rubbed his eyes before looking at us while Soos was driving in the beaten up boat that was barely still running.

"What the…kids? I thought you two were off playing "Spin the bottle" with Soos!" He said.

"Well…" Mabel started.

"We spent all day trying to find a legendary monster," I continued.

"But we realized, the only dinosaur we want to hang out with is right here," Mabel finished.

"Save your sympathy! I've been having a great time without you! Making friends, talking to my reflection...I had a run-in with the lake police! Guess I got to wear this ankle bracelet now, so that'll be fun," He lifted his leg to show us the beeping ankle bracelet with a red light.

"So…I guess there isn't room in that boat for four more?" I asked as we put on their hats.

After a few moment of silence, Stan accepted….

"…You knuckleheads ever saw me thread a hook with my eyes closed?" Stan asked. We smiled, knowing that that was Stan's way of saying he forgave us.

"Five bucks says you can't do it!" Dipper said, climbing into Stan's boat.

"Five more bucks say you can't do it with your eyes closed, PLUS me singing at the top of my lungs!" Mabel jumped into Stan's boat.

"I like those odds!" Stan grinned. He then looked at Soos. "Whoa! What happened to your shirt?"

Then he looked at Dipper. "Holy Smokes Kid, where`s your wheelchair?! Did Soos saw you—"

"Long story dude," Soos said, getting into the boat.

"All right, everybody gets together," I said, standing in front of them with his camera. "Say fishing!"

"Fishing…!" Mabel, Stan and Soos said; Stan bending down to smile with us ruffling their hair.

"Dude, am I in the frame?" Soos asked.

I took so many pictures like Mabel blindfolding, Stan, while he tried to thread a hook, Soos almost fell out of the boat once with his mouth in the middle of a scream and his face contorted comically, I caught a fish, but the fish attacked me, and there were many others.

After a while I took a break with the camera, we simply relaxing in the boat as Stan drove it slowly. The boat suddenly shook, making us jump

'Whoa!" Mabel said

"What was that?" Dipper asked.

Mabel made an 'I don't know' sound.


Without us knowing in underwater when two disposable cameras sunk, the realGobblewonker swam by and ate one.