First, let me start with... (*wipes away tears*) I'm so sorry everyone!, I failed to keep up my daily upload schedule :'( However, because it's you guys and your actually reading this story I will upload all the chapters I have missed over a couple of days, that is Chapter/s 4,5, and 6. :) Again I apologise...
Let's begin with Chapter 4...
Dipper sat up after waking from a bad dream, he couldn't quite remember it but he knows it was weird. 'Something about a demon king?' he wondered. He looked around the room wondering if having a ghost in his room was part of the dream too, it wasn't...
Dipper was shaking, eyes wide, and covers on the floor. 'He had to have had a nightmare, why else would all his stuff be on the floor, what was the dream even about?' he thought.
After putting the covers on his bed again he heard a slight beeping coming from downstairs, he checked to make sure his sister was still asleep and went to investigate. He quickly but carefully sneaked down the stairs to the attic... It stopped?... 'what are you doing Dipper? walking down into an imaginary mystery.' he continued to think, that was until it started to beep, even faster this time. Dipper looked around the house. Nothing. Last he looked around in the gift shop, he was willing to go out if he needed, suddenly... "Beep!, Beep!, Beep!." rang in his ear, 'was it in the Shack? he wondered. He closed his eyes trying to listen to where it was coming from and began to step forward until...
"Ahhhh!" he yelled as he fell face first onto the ground. He opened his eyes to see what he had fallen on -a wire? really?.- he started to get up but he heard it again, this time really loud like it was right next to him. It was.
The sound echoed inside the vending machine, last summer he found out about the hidden door behind it and tried to recall the pin...
"A,1,B,C,3?... No that's not it... He thought for a moment. "A,B,1,C,3?" It opened allowing access to the lab they found last year with the portal that got Ford home, he entered carefully listening still, shining a torch he picked up off the Mystery Shack floor when he fell, he went down the elevator and through the door of the lab. The Beeping stopped.
Stan stood before Dipper pacing back and forth with paper in his hands, some falling out onto the floor along with a lot more paper work with graphs and numbers. He didn't even notice Dipper standing light off in the doorway.
"maybe if-... But-... Could it-..." He mumbled away, Dipper looking at him worried, 'had he slept?' Dipper questioned. After a few minutes of Grunkle Fords mumbling and pacing Dipper tried to get his attention.
"Uhhh... Grunkle Ford?" But Ford didn't face him. He didn't even flinch or stop for a second, he continued to babble and walk. The beeping started again sending red lights to flash making Dipper flinch after being in a dark(ish) room, Ford viewed a large screen with many numbers that Dipper didn't know the meaning of. He tried again shouting over the beeping this time.
"Grunkle Ford!" The beeping stopped and Ford stood statue still, like a rabbit in front of headlights.
"D-Dipper?... is that you my boy?" Dipper flipped the light switch causing them both to flinch and sending beaming light to spread to every corner of the room. Ford looked tired. Not just tired but exhausted.
"How long have you been standing there?" he asked quickly pushing it to the side as the beeping started again. It stopped a few seconds after.
"Uh?..." Dipper began saying. "What is all this?"
Ford replied leaving Dipper feeling guilty. "Well you see this machine detects paranormal activity in the atmosphere... but usually in Gravity Falls its only slow beeping to tell me that it's something like a Gnome or a Multibear... But it's fast this time which means it's powerful, I have only seen something this powerful come from Bills dimension... it's not like anything I have ever seen... It's not as strong as Bill, and it's not him, but whatever this doesn't seem to belong here... we have to get rid of it before it uses its strength to try to take over the world!." He kept ranting and started to pace again and printed out more recordings of graphs and data sheets.
"Grunkle Ford?..." Ford turned to face Dipper looking kinda nervous. "If it wanted to kill a human, could it?" Ford looked at him confused.
"Why Dipper?" He asked worriedly.
"Because it's a ghost?" he accidentally questioned.
Ford walked towards printed of sheets and read them over, and over, and over realizing he was right. 'How could I have missed them?' he thought.
He faced to Dipper and asked... "How did you know it was a ghost?" Dipper rubbed his arm and tried to whisper-
"Because it's sleeping in our room."
Ford was shocked and a little confused (ghosts can't sleep right?).
Dipper took the next 30 minutes talking to Ford about Danny, how they met, what he was, and how Dipper doesn't trust him and leaves no detail out, not even his sisters doubt.
"So ... She said that it- He's friendly?" he corrected himself. "and he wants to go home?" he thought for a moment... "Halfa?" 'that must be why it keeps going on and off.' Ford stated. "so it's half of a ghost and half of a human?... interesting."
Dipper answered his questions of what he knows and with every questioned answered he seemed to get more intrigued. Ford notices Dipper start to yawn the words-
"Hey ... the beeping hasn't happened in a while." Ford looked at his watch and realized that it was almost 4:00 AM, he searched in a large chest of draws and pulled out a device.
"It's old and broken but I am sure I can fix it by tomorrow... or tonight I should say. Dipper realized what he meant and rubbed his head. "What is it?" Dipper asked.
"This is a spirit Analyzer, it reads ghosts ectoplasmic samples and tells you what category of ghost it is." Dipper nodded his head starting to head out of the lab trying to thank him without saying much. If he said another word he knew he would fall asleep.
Before Dipper left Ford quickly whispered "It's nice to have you back... another brain to talk to." he winks at Dipper as he smiled and walked up to bed leaving Ford still in the Lab. Dipper made sure Mable and Danny were asleep but was too tired to see if either was actually before he fell on his bed straight asleep.
Danny flinched his green eye open, he was in ghost form and wanted to be, he went intangible to get to the first floor and as soon as he went into the gift shop he was shocked by something that reminded him of the Fenton ghost shield but why would they have?... His arm was leaking Ectoplasm onto the floor, he flinched at the pain and wanted to clear himself up. leaving the mess behind him, he flew away as Ford came out of the shadows and collected the ectoplasm in a beaker and looked at it before going into the lab again unseen.
