Chapter 2

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Word 3's view


The Legend of the Gobblewonker

Is this normal breakfast behavior for humans?

3 asked bemusedly in its 'head' as it watched from inside Dipper's vest. The Pines twins were racing tree sap for reasons 3 could not compute. Mabel's "Sir Syrup" won, but choked her. Is that the prize? If so then I'm glad Dipper lost. Or maybe because Mabel cheated by tapping the bottom and perhaps that's her penalty.

Dipper was reading a magazine with something called a Human Hamster ball and also a…contest ad? "Ho ho, no way! Hey Mabel, check this out" Dipper said pointing at the contest ad, but Mabel predictably looked at the Hamster ad. "Human-sized hamster balls? I'm human-sized!" she smiled. Wouldn't you suffocate in it? Also how would you break? "No, no. Mabel. This. We see weirder stuff than that every day! We didn't get any photos of those gnomes, did we?" No, we could've if we brought the camera with us, but with our luck it would've been destroyed in an explosion 3 tried to console.

"Nope. Just memories! And this beard hair." Mabel sighed dreamily pulling out some white hair and stuck it in Dipper's face. Why? I thought it was a bad break up? You know with the kidnapping and attempted murder. Mabel just shrugged as Stan walked into the room.

"Good morning you knuckle heads. Do you know what day it is?" Wednesday? "Happy Anniversary?" "Mazel tov!" Stan smacked Dipper on the hat and said "It's Family Fun Day, genius. We're cutting off work and having one of those, you know, bonding-type deals" Huh, the cheapskate getting off work for "bonding time?" Smells fishy. "Grunkle Stan, is this gonna be anything like our last family bonding day?" Dipper asked uncomfortably. What happened last time? "The county jail was so cold." Ah.

Stan said "All right, maybe I haven't been the best summer caretaker. But I swear, today we're gonna have some real family fun!" That sounds promising. "Now who wants to put on some blindfolds and GET INTO MY CAR?" Now I'm worried "Wait, what?" Dipper asked stunned, as Mabel cheered. My thoughts exactly.


"Blindfolds never lead to anything good." Dipper muttered as he sat in the back seat with his sister. I agree, at least it's with a creepy old man you know. Mabel on the other hand was optimistic, "Wow, I feel like all my other senses are heightened! I can see with my fingers!" She poked Dipper's face causing him to chuckle at his sister's antics.

3 would've smiled until it turned its awareness to outside the car and had a 'heart attack' at Stan's driving. 3 'screamed' when the car flied through the air, Trust me Dipper, I would like to have a blindfold right now, and a blanket, also a dark corner to crawl in. Dipper nervously asked Stan "Grunkle Stan, are you wearing a blindfold?" Please say no, on second thought say yes, because this implies that this is your usual driving habit. Stan laughed and 3 felt a chill through its consciousness "Nah, but with these cataracts I might as well be! What is that, a woodpecker?" No! That's a guard rail and sign! I can drive better and I don't have hands! 3 screamed.

Contrary to 3 expectations, they got with their lives and limbs intact; the same couldn't be said for the car. Rest in Peace car, you've earned it. Dipper and Mabel took off the blindfolds and were disappointed to see it was only a lake. We've risked our lives for a trip to the lake!? "Ta-da! It's fishing season!" Stan announced happily. "Fishing?" Mabel asked, "What're you playing at, old man?" There is probably prize money involved. "You're gonna love it! The whole town's out here!" Wow it is a small town, and why is that gigantic lumberjack beating that poor fish, pick on someone your own size! Where did that guy come from? What is with these people appearing out of nowhere in this town!? "That's some quality family bonding!" I think those are your cataracts talking.

Dipper was still suspicious "Grunkle Stan, why do you wanna bond with us all of a sudden?" "Come on, this is gonna be great! I've never had fishing buddies before. The guys from the lodge won't go with me. They don't 'like' or 'trust' me." I wonder why.

"Think he actually wants to fish with us?" Mabel asked Dipper, "Hey, I know what'll cheer you sad sacks up! POW!" Stan put some badly made hats on the twin's heads. "Pines family fishing hats! That's hand stitching, you know. It just gonna be you, me and those goofy hats on a boat for ten hours!" Oh dear God…Spare me. The twins shared 3's sentiments exactly, especially when Stan pulled out the joke book. Suddenly there was a commotion by the dock; an old man that tugged on 3's memory was causing a scene. Who is he? Did my Father know him?

"I SEEN IT! I SEEN IT AGAIN! The Gravity Falls Gobblewonker! Come quick before it scrap doodles away!"

Is he dancing? Both 3 and Mabel asked.

"Nooo! It's a jig of grave danger!"

O-kay. The lake ranger came out and starts spraying the crazy old man away, which turned out to be the old man's son. "But I got proof this time, by guppity, BEHOLD! It's the Gobble-de-wonker what done did it! It had a long neck like a giraffe! And wrinkly skin like...like this gentleman right here!" he called pointing at Stan. Now that's just rude.

"It chewed my boat up to smithereens, and shim-shammed over to Scuttlebutt Island! YOU GOTTA BELEIVE ME!" The fat sheriff made fun of the old man which everyone else laughing at him and he left sadly. I take that back, THAT was rude and uncalled for, lazy sheriff.

"Well, that happened. Now let's untie this boat and get out on that lake!" Stan said getting on a rickety row boat." I don't feel safe. "Mabel, did you hear what that old dude said?" Dipper asked Mabel, who repeated one of the old man's parting lines. "The other thing! About the monster! If we can snag a photo of it, we can split the prize fifty-fifty." I'm not sure I have nothing in my pages about a "Gobble-de-wonker" so it may or may not be real. I do, however, know something about a waterfall cave if that helps.

Mabel gasped and said "that's 2 fifties." Ya don't say. "Imagine what you could do with five hundred dollars!" Mabel then went into her mindscape and started squeaking and giggling madly, until Dipper snapped her out of it. Mabel's mind is a dangerous, dangerous place. "Dipper, I am one million percent on board with this!" I don't even want to know what you were thinking about.

"Grunkle Stan! Change of plans. We're taking that boat to Scuttlebutt Island, and we are gonna find that Gobblewonker!" Dipper, Mabel, 3, and strangely the old man started chanting, "Monster hunt! Monster hunt!" "You dudes say something about a monster hunt?" Okay once was happenstance, twice is coincidence, 3 times it's a conspiracy! I'm onto you man-child! 3 thought as the twins greeted Soos. "Dude, you can totally use my boat for your hunt. It's got a steering wheel, chairs, normal boat stuff." Soos offered. It is safer than the rowboat. This started a tug-of-war between Stan and Soos, with Soos winning via robot dance.

After a quick detour for sunscreen the 3 humans and book were heading to the island. Dipper was making a speech towards the other two "All right! If we wanna win this contest, we gotta do it right! Think. What's the number one problem with most monster hunts?" The monster is either a champion at hide and seek or hungry. Soos guessed, "You're a side character, you die within the first five minutes of the movie. Dude, am I a side character? Do you ever think about stuff like that?" No that's jocks and blond bimbo's, so I think you're safe Soos.

"No, no, no. Camera trouble! Say Bigfoot shows up. Soos, be Bigfoot?" I see the resemblance. "There he is! Bigfoot! Uh oh, no camera! Oh, wait! Here's one! Aw, no film! You see? You see what I'm doing here?" Yes, I do. "That's why I bought SEVENTEEN disposable cameras! Two on my ankle, three in my jacket, four for each of you, three 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!" This lead to an amusing scene where the 3 humans destroy 4 of the cameras involving: birds, mishearing, and inconvenient placing.

"So what's the plan? Throw more cameras overboard or what?" Mabel asked jokingly. "No! No. Okay." He looked at Mabel, "You'll be lookout, Soos can work the steering wheel, and I'll be captain." What am I paper scraps? "What? Why do you get to be captain? What about Mabel, huh? Mabel! Mabel! Mabel! Mabel!" If you were captain we'd be underwater 3 thought as Dipper argued against it. "What about co-captain?" Well there is first mate. "There's no such thing as co-captain."

Mabel threw another camera overboard. "Okay, fine! You can be co-captain." Dipper said giving in, and then Soos asked, "Can I be associate co-captain?"

"As co-captain, I authorize that request."

Fine I'll be the lookout, 3 pouted.

"Well, as first co-captain, our number one order of business is to lure the monster out with this" Dipper gestured at a convenient barrel of fish food, which Soos tasted.

The air soon turned misty as the twins tried to find the island, "Hey! How's it going? It's going awesome! Bow bow, buh bow bow!" at least Dipper was.

Mabel was just playing with a pelican. Dipper looked at his sister, "Mabel, leave that thing alone." Mabel then tried her hand at ventriloquism, "Aw, I don't mind none! Hey, look! I'm drinking water! Twinkle, twinkle little..."

Which she failed at as she choke and scare the bird away, don't quit your day job, kid. "Aren't you supposed to be doing lookout?" Dipper asked. "Look out!" Out of nowhere, Mabel throws a volley ball at Dipper, hitting him on the arm "Heh, heh. But seriously, I'm on it."

Where did she get the ball? Suddenly the boat hits the island's beach.

"See? We're here! I'm a lookout genius! Hamster ball, here we come!" Hamster ball?

They started to explore the island's forest until Soos saw a sign. "Dude, check it out." Soos called as he covered part of the sign with his arm "Butt Island."

Real mature, who is the adult here?

"Soos, you rapscallion!" Mabel looks at Dipper, "Hey! Why aren't you laughing? Are you scared?"

"Pssh! Yeah, right! I'm not" Evidently it's Dipper. Mabel continued to taunt Dipper until they heard a low growl that echoed through the forest. "Dude! Did you guys hear that?" How can we not? "What was that? Was it your stomach?" Mabel asked Soos. "Nah, my stomach normally sounds like whale noises." "Wow, so majestic!" Mabel commented.

…No comment.

Suddenly a possum runs by and snatches the lantern. "Our lantern! Aww! I can't see anything!" "Dude, I dunno, man. Maybe this, uh... Maybe this isn't worth it." Soos said nervously. "Not worth it? Guys, imagine what would happen if we got that picture!" Well at least Dipper's imagination isn't as bad as his sister's. Courage renewed they'd went deeper into the forest.

"My name is Mabel! It rhymes with table! It also rhymes with... glabel! It also rhymes with... schmabel!" Once again, don't quit your day job. "Dude, we should be writing these down." Dipper shushed them and whispered, "Guys, guys, guys! You hear something?"

I hear birds.

"This is it! This is it!" the twins said together while Soos looked nervous, and grabbed a sharpened stick. They came upon a monster shape in the water and the humans hid behind a log and readied their cameras. They then charged, camera's flashing until the fog cleared and saw…a broken boat with a bunch of beavers?

What the…?

The beaver's chittered and played around the wreckage. "But...But what was that noise, then? I heard a monster noise!" They heard it again and turned to a beaver chewing on a rusty chainsaw. 1, what is that chainsaw doing there and 2, why isn't that beaver scarred up or dead!? "Sweet, a beaver with a chainsaw." Soos said taking photos.

Dipper sighed sadly "Maybe that old guy was crazy after all." "He did use the word 'scrap doodle.'" Cheer up, at least we know now. "Ooh, yeah! Work it! Work it! Nice! Nice! Gimme another one of those! Yeah, I like that one." Soos continued to take pictures of the beavers as Dipper moped on a rock. "What're we gonna say to Grunkle Stan? We ditched him over nothing." He threw a rock and the rock Dipper and 3 were on started to shake.

"Hey...Guys, do you feel that?" He fell off the rock, "Hey, hey, whoa, whoa!" To 3's surprise and horror the Gobblewonker's head rose up from the depths as Mabel and Soos slowly backed away.

Run, Dipper, RUN!

Dipper, not noticing the danger asked, "It's not that hard, all right? All you gotta do is point, and shoot. Like this!" He turned around to come face to face with the monster.

"Run! Get back to the boat! HURRY!" Soos screamed they were in a mad chase from the monster. If 3 could talk, it would yell at Dipper to stop taking photos and run for his life. Let's get outta here, dudes! They made it to the boat and they start driving away in the boat. "All right! This is it! Cracked lens?! Soos! Get a photo!" Dipper called. Soos started throwing camera at the monster instead. "WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!" "Oh! I still got one left! Don't worry, dude!" he breaks the last one as the monster was gaining. "Go, go, go, go, go!"

3 was scared to death, it used its awareness to find an escape route and found the waterfall cave nearby and switched its pages around to show Dipper where it was. And was that Stan with Dipper and Mabel clones?

They headed back to the island and crashed into the beaver nest, where 3 realized that beavers may look cute and cuddly, but they're vicious little monsters. They passed by other families and were knocked into the water. Is that man still bullying that poor fish? It's been hours. 3 thought satisfied as the fish's friends rained down upon them. The boat was nearly ruined and they smashed a panel of glass out in the middle of the lake. Why are they doing that out here!? I don't see any windows!

"WHERE DO I GO?!" Mabel screamed at Dipper, "Um...uh...GO INTO THE FALLS! I think there might be a cave behind there!" he shouted back looking at 3's pages."

"MIGHT BE?!" they all braced for impact and slammed into the floor of the cave. They turned around to see the monster stuck in the caves entrance. Oh, Thank you Lord.

Mabel lifts up Dipper's hat to reveal a camera and starts taking pictures. "Did you get a good one?" "They're all good ones!" he said joyfully, 3 could have danced with happiness; it has found something its Father couldn't. "WOO! HAMSTER BALL!"

Guess who said that; a rock fell on the Gobblewonker head and it with an electric noise.

"What the...?" was everyone's thought. "What's wrong?" Mabel asked as they came closer. Dipper walks up to it and starts knocking on it. "Careful, dude!" "I've got this!" The monster's flank makes a hallow sound, It's a fake!? "I've got this! Hold on! Hey, guys! Come check this out!" The gang comes down discovers a handle and opens it. They discover that the monster was a machine and the one controlling it was…the old man from the dock.

Old Man Jenkins!?

"Work the bellows and the...Eh?" The old man turns around and notices them, "Aww, banjo polish!" "You?! You made this?! Why?" Dipper asked flabbergasted.

He looked contrite and said "Well, I...I, uh...I just wanted attention."

HUH!?

"I still don't understand." Misinterpreting what he meant he said, "Well, first I just hooten nanied up a biomechanical brain wave generator, and then I learned to operate a stick-shift with my beard!" Okay... Mabel then asked, "Okay, yeah. But why did you do it?" "Well, when you get to be an old fella like me, nobody pays any attention to you anymore. My own son hasn't visited me in months!"

That's sad.

"So I figured maybe I'd catch his fancy with a fifteen ton aquatic robot!" Well that escalated quickly. He finished with a maniacal laugh then he'd sighed. 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 Dipper took out Stan's hats and shared a guilty look. "Dude, I guess the real lake monster is you two."

THAT WAS UNCALLED FOR! WHY DON'T YOU KICK A PUPPY WHILE YOU'RE AT IT!

"Heh, heh! Sorry, I just like, boom, just popped into my head there." You're a handyman, fix your mouth filter! "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!" You-you did!? "Like when my wife left me and I created a homicidal pterodactyl-tron"

Err… isn't that a little extreme? "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!" You have problems, 3 thought as the old man laugh manically. "Well, time to get back to work on my death ray!" Good luck with that. "Any of you kids got a screwdriver?"

"Well, so much for the photo contest." Dipper said sadly looking at the camera. Well, you can still send the photos in; it'll just be a little dishonest. 3 murmured consolingly, "You still have one roll of film left." Mabel said. "What do you wanna do with it?"


They went back outside and found Stan moping on his boat, where Dipper took his photo. "What the...kids? I thought you two were off playing 'Spin the Bottle' with Soos!" he asked angrily and a little hurt. "Well, we spent all day trying to find a legendary dinosaur. " Dipper began; it turned out to be giant robot controlled by a crazy old man. "But we realized the only dinosaur we wanna hang out with is right here." Mabel finished with a smile. "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 gotta wear this ankle bracelet now, so that'll be fun."

There are Lake Police?

"So...I guess there isn't room in that boat for three more?" Dipper asked guiltily as the twins put on their hats. Stan hesitantly asked, "You knuckleheads ever seen me thread a hook with my eyes closed?" "Five bucks says you can't do it!" Dipper said as he got into the boat; Stan grinned, "You're on!" Mabel then continued to say, "Five more bucks says you can't do it with your eyes closed, PLUS me singing at the top of my lungs!"

I guess that's possible, if a little hard and slightly dangerous to your fingers.

"I like those odds!" He turns to Soos and said "Whoa! What happened to your shirt?" "Long story, dude." Yeah it involved pissing off a bunch of beavers and a robot, 3 thought as Dipper pulled out the camera, "All right, everybody get together. Say fishing!" They spent rest of the day doing the dare, reading from the joke book, catching fish, stealing from the little clones, and running from the Lake Police.

It's a pity I didn't find something you haven't found, Father. 3 Thought to itself as they went back to the dock; who knows, with the Pine family, we may find something you've never heard of. The boat suddenly bumped into something and just on the edge of 3's awareness, it caught a 'glimpse' of a giant thing swim by.

HUH?! Did I…imagine it? No it must've been a catfish.


A/N: Special thanks to my first reviewer StkAmbln