The Pines twinses were sitting at the breakfast table, glaring at each other while Dipper and Mabel held syrup bottles in their hands.

"Are you ready for the ultimate challenge?" Mabel asked Dipper and Max

"Oh, we were born ready!" Max replied.

"Okay guys, you know the rules. 3. 2. 1. GO!" Aqua announced. Immediately Dipper and Mabel turned the syrup bottles upside-down and all four began chanting as the syrup slowly leaked out.

"Go Sir Syrup!" Aqua and Mabel cried

"Go, Mountain Man!" Max and Dipper called. The syrup of both bottles was almost about to drop, but Mable tapped her's to make it come out quicker.

"Yes!" Mable celebrated before coughing

"Hand-to-bottle contact! disqualified!" Aqua told her

"Aww,"

Dipper had picked up the local paper and scanned it. A photo caught his attention with a crudely fake monster in it with the title: Monster photo contest, $2000 cash prize!

"Whoa! Guys look at this." Dipper turned the paper to his siblings who each looked at something different.

"Human-sized hamster balls?! I'm human Sized!" Mabel said excitedly, daydreaming about what she would do with a giant hamster ball (Including but not limited to mocking a hamster and cruising with it).

"Local man found dating a cardboard cut-out of Shandra Jimenez?" Max read, quizzically

"Buy gold?" Aqua read an add with triangular shaped gold bars.

"No guys, this!" Dipper told them, pointing at the competition. "We see stuff weirder than that every day! Did we get any photos from those gnomes?"

"Nope," Mabel replied. "Just memories. And this beard hair!" Mabel held up a white tuft of hair.

"Oh, and I took this bucket of rainbows they had lying around," Max said, putting a bucket on the table, somehow impossibly containing rainbows. All four of them stared at it for a long moment before Stan walked in.

"Mourning knuckleheads! Do you know what today is?"

"Happy anniversary?" Dipper guessed

"Mazel Tov!" Mabel exclaimed

"4th of July!" Max said before thinking for a moment. "Wait, that's not it…"

"A day where you don't get into trouble with the law?" Aqua said sarcastically

"It's a family fun day, geniuses." Stan explained, "We're cuttin' off work and having one of those, you know, bonding-type deals." Stan sniffed the milk in the fridge before recoiling. "Whoa! When did I buy this?"

"Gruncle Stan, this won't be like the time you had us make counterfeit money, will it?" Max asked. The twinses shuddered remembering the horrible experience.
"We were lucky that Max had one of his presidential pardons." Mable said, "That country jail was cold."

Stan stood in the middle of the twinses "All right, maybe I haven't been the best summer caretaker. But I swear, today we're gonna have some real family fun. Now who wants to put on some blindfolds and get into my car?" he said raising his hands in the air.

"Yeah!" They all cried, also raising their arms. It took a moment for them to process what Stan had said.

"Wait, what?" Dipper asked. Aqua facepalmed while her other arm was still up.

/_\

They were now all blindfolded in Stan's car. Sta was adjusting the radio and not paying any attention to the road and swerving dangerously. Mabel was remaining positive.

"Wow! I feel like all my other senses are heightened. I can see with my fingers!" Mabel began feeling her brothers who were in the back with her. Max and Dipper chuckled.

"Careful Mabel, if you see through your fingers too much, you may go blind!" Aqua joked from the front passenger seat.

"What?!" Mabel exclaimed, taking her literally. Suddenly the car jumped, leaving them all to have bruised butts.

"Gruncle Stan, are you wearing a blindfold?" Dipper asked.

"Heh, no. But with these cataracts, I might as well be!" Stan gazed out the windshield "What is that, a woodpecker?" Stan then drove through a guardrail at full speed. The twinses all screamed as the hurtled down the hill.

/_\

Aqua had managed to convince stan to let her drive the rest of the way to the lake, and even if she was just a probation driver, she did a much better job than her Gruncle. Stan had her park behind a large log cabin before they all got out.
"All right, blindfold back on, kid," Stan told her.

"Gruncle Stan, if we're here, what's the point of a blindfold?" Aqua asked Stan

"Because I pride myself on showmanship, and we wouldn't want to ruin the unveiling now, would we?"

Aqua sighed defeatedly, know that there was no point on arguing with Stan, and it'd be over faster if she just went along with it. Not even a minute later Stan stopped them and lined them up.

"All right, take em' off!" Stan told them. The twinses took off their blindfolds to see that they were at the Gravity Falls lake. Hanging from two lampposts was a banner that read: Fishing Season, Opening Day.

"Ta-da! It's the fishing season!" Stan announced. All four of them were skeptical.

"Fishing Season?" Mabel asked

"What are you playing at Gruncle Stan?" Max interrogated.

"You guys are gonna love it! Look! The whole town's out here!" Stan gestured to the lake, and true to his word, much of the Gravity Falls townsfolk were present. There was Lazy Susan, who was trying to get the fish into her pan. Toby Determined, who was photographing the fish before falling into the lake. There were Manly Dan and the Corduroy boys, who watched as Dan was punching a fish. And Tyler Cutebiker who was egging him on by repeatedly saying 'Git it', which was about all the biker seemed to say.

"That's some quality family bonding!" Stan commented.

"Gruncle Stan, why do you want to bond with us all of a sudden? I mean, if you just wanted to loan money there's no reason to butter us up first." Aqua told her Gruncle

"No no no, you got it all wrong. It's just that I've never had any actual fishing buddies, the guys at the lodge don't 'like' or 'trust' me" Stan did air quotes with his fingers.

"And I wonder why…" Dipper mumbled

"What was that?"

"Nothing!"

Mabel turned to her siblings, "Guys, I think he really wants to fish with us."

"Well, that's… Concerning." Max said, empathizing with Stan's newfound want to wish with his nieces and nephews.

"Hey, I know what'll cheer you sad sacks up." Stan walked over and put fishing hats on Max and Mabel, and then on Aqua and Dipper. "Pow! Pines family fishing hats! That-that's hand stitching, you know." Each hat had the name of who was wearing it, though crudely done as the 'L' on Mabel was peeling off, and Aqua had been done upside-down. Max and Dipper's were okay, except that they were spelled 'Macs' and 'Dippy'.

"It'll just be me, you guys, and these silly hats on a boat for 10 hours!" Stan said enthusiastically.

"Ten Hours?!" the twinses explained.

"I brought the joke book!" Stan held up a book with the title: 1001 Yuck Em' Ups

"NOOO!"

/_\

The twinses huddled together. "There has to be a way out of this" Mabel said to her siblings

"Yeah, but I don't see any just coming over and calling themselves out!" Aqua replied

Then Old Man Mc'Gucket, a short man with tattered clothes and hat, and a long white beard came running over and yelling.

"I SEEN IT! I SEEN IT AGAIN! The Gravity Falls Gobblewonker! Come quick before it scrabdoodles away!" Mc'Gucket began to do a jig "Eh, eh, ha ha hoo, Ah, hee-hee..."

"Huh, well what do you know?" Aqua said, amazed.

"Aww, he's doing a happy jig," Mabel said, watching Mc'Gucket

"This ain't no happy jig small child! This is a jig of grave DANGER!" Mc'Gucket warned, uncomfortably close to Mabel

Then, a lake ranger appeared from the log cabin with a water sprayer and then began spraying Mc'Gucket. "Hey, hey! Now, what did I tell you about scaring my customers? This is your last warning, Dad!" The ranger warned.

"Dad?" Max questioned.

"But I got proof this time, by gummity!" Mc'Gucket said, continuing to do a jig whilst still being sprayed with water. Mc'Gucket then lead the crowd that had formed over to the dock to present a wrecked and splintered boat. "Behold!" he announced, "It's the Gobble-dy-wonker what done did it! It had a long neck like a gee-raffe! And wrinkly skin like...like this gentleman right here!" He pointed at Stan.

"Huh?" Stan asked, completely oblivious of the situation.

Mc'Gucket continued with his explanation "It chawed my boat up to smitheroons, and shim-shammed over to Scuttlebutt Island! YOU GOTTA BELIEVE ME!" He pointed to an island in the distance that was covered in a fog. Mc'Gucket's son looks sympathetically at his father, almost as if ready to believe him. then a radio crackled to life with sheriff Blubs on it.

"Attention all units. We've got a crazed old man here." Everyone road with laughter at Mc'Gucket, who just hung his head in shame.

Stan walked back to the twinses "Well, that happened. Now let's untie this boat and get out on that lake!" Stan then proceeded to get into a battered-up rowboat.

"Guys, did you what that guy said?" Dipper asked his siblings

"Aww, Donkey Shpittle!" Mabel imitated Mc'Gucket.

"Scrapadoodle!" Max also copied. HE and Mabel laughed at their impressions of the crazy old man.

"Dipper meant the other thing. About the monster." Aqua corrected.

"Guys, if we snag a photo of it, we'd each be able to have $500!" Dipper explained

Mabel gasped "That's two fifties!"

"It's more than that Mabel. Max told her, which just made her gasp more.

"I am one-million percent on board with this Dipper."

"Yeah, at this point I'd take just about anything over going fishing with Stan," Aqua said.

Max gave a slight sigh "While I don't want to leave Stan, I'd love to go on a monster hunt."

/_\

The twinses walked over to Stan who was preparing his fishing equipment. Aqua approached. "Hy Gruncle Stan, we were thinking we could use the boat to Scuttlebutt island for a monster hunt." Then they all heard loud horn sound as Soos pulled up in a much larger boat than Stan's.

"Doods, did you say something about a monster hunt?" Soos asked

"Soos!" They all exclaimed, except Stan.

"Wassup hambones. You know, you could totally use my boat for your monster hunt," Soos offered It's got a roof, steering wheel, chairs… You know. Normal boat stuff."

"All right, all right, let's think this through." Stan haulted their train of thought "Ya kids could go waste your time on some epic monster-finding adventure, or you could spend the day learning how to tie knots and skewer worms with your Great Uncle Stan!" The twinses looked at each other, knowing immediately what choice was significantly more appealing. "So what do you say?" Stan asked, confident that they chose him.

"We made the right Choice!" Mable called as they drove away in Soos's boat.

"Yes!" Soos said.

"Ingrates!" Stan yelled at them.

Max turned to Dipper. "You know Dipper, I feel guilty for just leaving Stan back there like that."

"Max, Max. Who got us locked up in jail?" Dipper asked. Max paused for a moment.

"I no longer feel guilty!" Max called to the lake.

/_\

Hey, it's been u bit longer than the uploads, but I go this one done to let you guys know that I'm still here. Also: Guest has been on fire for reviews. Thanks for helping me with Aqua, and you may be damn well close to guessing Aqua's name's origin. I give an answer soon-ish (in a number of episodes, not actual time) so keep guessing, or just hang on.