Disclaimer: I own nothing except for my OC Nikki
5 The Inconveniencing
Stitch and I were sitting on the counter in the giftshop working on a book of puzzles, Mabel was next to us on top of a globe and spinning around, Wendy and Dipper were on either sides of the counter, Wendy leaning against the counter closer to my and Stitch's side and reading a magazine, while Dipper was on the other end sitting on a barrel and reading the Journal.
"Nikki, Mabel, do you believe in ghosts?" asked Dipper.
"Yes." I said, looking over towards him.
"I believe you're a big dork! Ha ha ha!" Mabel started laughing before Dipper used his pencil to stop the globe from spinning causing Mabel to fall off, Stitch and I burst out laughing in result.
"Soos! Wendy!" Grunkle Stan called as he walked through the front door.
"What's up, Mr. Pines!" Soos said when he ran over from the other side of the shop.
"I'm headin' out. You two are gonna wash the bathrooms, right?" asked Grunkle Stan.
"Yes, sir!" Soos said as he saluted.
"Absolutely not!" Wendy said, saluting as well.
"Ha ha! You stay out of trouble!" Grunkle Stan said as he left.
"Hey guys! What's this?" Wendy asked as she walked past us and to a curtain against a wall and pulled it back, revealing a ladder "A secret ladder to the roof?"
"Uh, I don't think Mr. Pines would like that." Soos said nervously as he walked towards Wendy.
"Huh?" Wendy said as she reached towards the ladder.
"Uhhhhh." Said Soos.
"Huh?" said Wendy.
"You're freaking me out dude!" Soos said, grabbing his hat.
"Can we actually go up there?" asked Dipper.
"Sure we can! Roof time! Roof time!" Wendy chanted as she climbed the ladder.
"Roof time! Roof time!" Dipper, Mabel, and I chanted with her as we followed her up the ladder, Dipper pushing me to go up first with him right behind me, with Mabel behind him, and Stitch bringing up the rear as Soos watched us go up. We came out of a trap door on the roof of the giftshop and climbed over the roof to the other side where there was a lawn chair, umbrella, cooler, and a bucket of pinecones.
"Alright, check it out!" Wendy said, gesturing towards the spot.
"Did you put all this stuff up here?" asked Dipper.
"I may or may not sneak up here during work, all the time, everyday." Wendy said before grabbing a pinecone out of the bucket and throwing it at a target taped to the totem pole, getting a bullseye "Yes!"
"Awesome!" I said.
"Cool!" said Dipper.
"Me first!" said Mabel.
The three of us started grabbing pinecones and started throwing them at the target, Dipper's and Mabel's pinecones weren't going very far, while mine were somehow hitting the bullseye every time.
"Nice aim ya' got there squirt!" Wendy said as she ruffled my hair.
"Thanks Wendy!" I said, smiling up at her.
Dipper throws another pinecone and it hits a parked car, causing the alarm to go off, Dipper blushes.
"Jackpot! High five." Wendy said and held her hand out to Dipper who just stares up at her "…Don't leave me hangin'." She said and Dipper finally gives her a high five. "Oh hey, it's my friends!" Wendy said as she looks towards a car driving up to the Shack.
"Wendy!" a voice calls as a hand waved out of the driver's side window.
"Hey, you guys aren't going to tell Stan about this, are you?" Wendy asked as she turned towards us, Dipper mimed zipping his lips and throwing away a key which Wendy copies "Later dorks!" Wendy said as she used two trees to slide down to the ground and then got into the car.
"Let's get out of here!" the voice of the driver yells out as the car drives away.
"Later Wendy! Heh heh heh! Good times!" Dipper said as he waved towards the car.
"Uh, oh!" said Mabel.
"What?" Dipper and I asked in union.
"Somebody's in love!" Mabel said as she pokes Dipper's cheek.
"Yeah, right! I just think Wendy's cool, okay? It's not like I lie awake at night thinking about her!" said Dipper. Later that night, right before I fall off to sleep, I hear Dipper say "Uh-oh."
The next day, Wendy, Dipper, Mabel, Stitch, and I were back in the giftshop.
"Random dance party for no reason!" Mabel yells and pushes play on a boombox, music started playing and Mabel, Wendy, Stitch, and I started dancing.
"Go! Go! Go! Go!" Wendy chanted when I noticed Dipper standing on the other end of the shop, writing on a clipboard. "Dipper!"
"Uh what, yes?" Dipper asked, throwing up the clipboard as he got startled from Wendy suddenly calling him.
"Aren't ya gonna get in on this?" asked Wendy.
"I don't really dance." Said Dipper.
"Yeah, you do! Mom used to dress him up in a lamb costume and make him doo…The Lamby Dance!" Mabel said, whispering the last three words.
"Now is not the time to talk about the Lamby Dance." Dipper said angrily.
"He still does it whenever I get sick to cheer me up." I said.
"NIKKI!" Dipper yelled.
"What? I like it when you do the Lamby Dance for me." I said.
"Lamb costume? Wow, is there like little ears and a tail or…" asked Wendy.
"Well uh, uh…" Dipper said, rubbing the back of his head.
"Dipper would prance around and sing a song about grazing." Mabel said as she held up a picture of a younger Dipper in a lamb costume while Dipper mimed zipping his lip as the cuckoo clock on the wall started going off.
"Hey, look at that! Quittin' time! The gang's waitin' for me." Wendy said as she took off her nametag and started walking towards the door.
"Wait! Why don't I—or we come with you?" Dipper said, running after Wendy.
"Ooh…I don't know. My friends are pretty intense. I know your little sister is five, but how old did you guys say you are?" asked Wendy.
"We're thirteen! So, technically a teen." Dipper said as I looked at him in confusion.
"All right. I like your moxie, kid! Let me go get my stuff." Wendy said before walking out the door.
"Since when are we thirteen? Is this a leap year?" asked Mabel.
"Dipper, you two are twelve, why did you lie?" I asked.
"Nikki, you're only five, you'll understand when you're a teenager." Said Dipper.
"…You're not even a teenager yet!" I said, throwing my hands into the air, Dipper only shook his head and turned towards Mabel.
"Come on, Mabel. This is our chance to hang out with, you know, the cool kids. And Wendy and whatever." Said Dipper.
"I knew it! You love her! Love love love love love!" Mabel said as she jumped over the counter and danced around Dipper, pointing at him.
"Oh hey, what's that?" Dipper asked, pointing towards the other side of the giftshop.
"Huh?" Mabel asked turning around, when she did, Dipper flipped her hair over her face and Stitch, and I laughed as Mabel tried to spit her hair out of her mouth.
We eventually went out the door, where Wendy was waiting for us and followed her to a group of teenagers, two boys where holding one upside while another boy threw candy at him and a teenage girl was standing off to the side, texting on her phone.
"Hurry up!" said the boy upside down.
"In the belly! In the belly!" said the two boys holding him up.
The teen in the black hoodie was about to throw another candy, Wendy threw one and it stuck inside the upside down boy's bellybutton, the teen in the hoodie looked at his candy in confusion before turning around and seeing Wendy standing there.
"Wendy!" they all shouted, running up to her.
"Wendy! Wendy!" one of the boys chanted.
"Hey guys! These are my pals from work, Mabel and Dipper, and their little sister, Nikki." Wendy said, gesturing towards us.
"This is my dog Stitch." I said, hugging Stitch to me.
"I chewed my gum so it looks like a brain! BLAH!" Mabel said as she stuck out her tongue, showing her chewed up gum.
"She's not much for first impressions. Unlike this guy!...this guy…" Dipper said as the group of teens stared at him.
"So are you, like, babysitting, or-." The teen in the hoodie asked.
"Come on, Robbie! Guys, this is Lee and Nate." Wendy said, gesturing towards the two boys who were holding the other one upside down "Tambry." She said, gesturing towards the girl who was texting.
"Hey…" Tambry said, not looking away from her phone.
"Thompson, who once ate a runover waffle for 50¢." Wendy said, gesturing to the boy who had been upside down.
"Don't tell them that!" said Thompson.
"And Robbie. You can probably figure him out." Wendy said, referring to the teen in the hoodie, who was now leaning against the car and strumming a guitar.
"Yeah, I'm the guy who spray-painted the water tower." Said Robbie.
"That was you? It looks so cool!" I said and he smirked down at me in response.
"Oh, you mean the big muffin!" said Dipper.
"Um, it's a giant explosion." Robbie said as he looked towards the water tower that we could all see through the trees.
"Hehe! Kinda does look like a muffin!" Lee said as he and Nate laughed while Robbie glared at Dipper.
"Let's hurry it up, guys. I got big plans for tonight!" Wendy said and they all started getting into the car, I started to follow when Dipper pulled me back.
"Nikki, you stay here." Said Dipper.
"What!? Come on Dipper, can't I go too?" I asked.
"No, you're too little. Just stay and watch TV with Grunkle Stan or something." Dipper said as he started walking to the front passenger seat when Robbie stopped him.
"Sorry kid, I ride shotgun alright?" Robbie asked and Dipper went to get in the backseat beside Mabel.
"Dipper…" I said, but he just ignored me and got into the car and closed the door, they drove off and I stared after them, I looked down and kicked at the dirt saying "I never get to go anywhere." I started to turn around to go back into the Shack when I stopped, getting an idea "Well if they're not gonna take us, we're just gonna follow them." I said, reaching into my pocket and pulling out the red cube Jumba had given me "You with me Stitch?" I asked turning to him.
"Ih." He said, nodding. We went into the trees a bit where no one could see us. I pushed the button on the cube and put it on the ground where it transformed into the hovercar. I started to go to the driver's side before I stopped and turned to Stitch.
"Um…you better drive while we're hovering, I'm not real comfortable being in control while we are so high in the air just yet." I said and he nodded and got behind the wheel while I got into the passenger seat beside him and we both buckled up, he pushed the button to start it up, pressed another that caused a clear dome to go over the four seats and pushed another that got us into the air and he steered it to where we were above the trees "Is there a way we can do this without being seen?" I asked, Stitch nodded and he pushed a button that caused us, along with the hovercar, to go invisible, we could see the inside of the hovercar and each other and out the dome, but no one could see us or the hovercar. "Nice!" I said as we started following the car full of teens and my brother and sister.
We were going for a long while, when the sun went down they finally stopped and got out of the car and went to a fence that surrounded an abandoned convenience store called 'Dusk 2 Dawn. Stitch steered us into the trees and landed, we got out, deactivated the hovercar back into a cube, I scooped it up and put it into my pocket and ran to the inside edge of the trees and hid, watching to see what they would do. Fortunately, we were just close enough to hear what they were saying.
"There it is, fellas! The condemned Dusk 2 Dawn!" said Wendy.
"Neato!" said Mabel.
"Why'd they shut it down, was it like a health code violation, or-" Dipper started to ask.
"TRY MURDER!" said Nate.
"Some folks died in there, the place has been haunted ever since!" said Lee.
"This town has such a colorful history!" said Mabel.
"That's the understatement of the century!" I whispered to Stitch who nodded in agreement.
"Wha…are you guys serious?" asked Dipper.
"Yeah! We're all gonna die! Chill out man! It's not as bad as it looks!" Wendy said as she lightly punched Dipper's shoulder.
Eventually, they started climbing over until it was just Dipper at the top of the fence and Lee on the other side.
"Come on, Dipper!" Wendy called up to him.
"Okay okay! Just gotta get a foothold…" said Dipper.
"Dude, your sister did it!" Robbie said, gesturing to Mabel who was running on the ground sideways in a circle.
"WOOP WOOP WOOP WOOP WOOP!" Mabel said as she ran.
"Hey, you know what. Just…there you go." Lee said as he climbed up next to Dipper and picked him up and threw him off the fence "Ha! S-Sorry dude!"
"…Alright, I don't like Lee anymore!" I said, glaring at Lee as Stitch growled quietly in Lee's direction.
"Good job throwing the kid off the fence, genius!" said Nate.
"Your mom's a genius…" said Lee.
The group then walked over to the doors of the store and we could no longer hear them, Robbie tried to open the doors, but couldn't, Dipper walked over and said something and Robbie turned around and said something back, then Wendy said something to Robbie, then Dipper started walking around to the side of the store.
"What is he doing?" I whispered as Dipper jumped on top of the dumpster and onto the roof where he disappeared behind the rooftop vents.
"Go Dipper! Punch that metal thing!" we hear Mabel yell. After a few moments we see the front door open, Dipper having opened it from the inside.
"Huh, must have went through the vents." I said as we watched the rest of the group walk inside the store. When the door closed, I saw the open side flipped to closed. "Why did they do that? if it's an abandoned store, where no one would suspect people be in there anyway, why did one of them flip the sign to closed?" I asked, Stitch shrugged, just as confused as I was "Teenagers are so weird. Whatever, come on, let's find a way inside." I said and we ran over towards the fence, fortunately, we were small enough to squeeze through the small opening in the fence where it was chained together, so we didn't have to climb over "C'mon, let's go in the vents." I said and ran over to the side where Dipper had climbed up, Stitch grew his two extra arms and had me ride piggyback as he climbed up the wall to the roof and snuck into the vents as quietly as we could, as we got near an opening in the vents, the lights in the store suddenly came on. We went to the opening and watched through the slats in the vent.
"Jackpot!" said Mabel.
"So, what are we gonna do now?" asked Dipper.
"Anything we want." Said Wendy.
We watched them as they started having a food fight across the store, Nate and Lee hit each other with kitty litter, and then they put mints into a big bottle of Pitt Cola, causing it to explode.
Later we saw Mabel run out of sight and heard her call Dipper over. I sighed, leaning my head into my hand.
"Is this really what Dipper and Mabel are gonna be like when they do turn thirteen at the end of the summer? And be like that the whole time they're teenagers? Cause if it is, I'm moving in with Grandpa Shermy in New Jersey." I said as Stitch nodded in agreement. I sighed, falling backward to lay on my back…which was a bad idea when suddenly, after a slight creaking sound, the vent gave out from underneath me and I fell through, too surprised and stunned when it happened to scream. I landed on Thompson who screamed and threw me and started running around, still screaming, luckily when he threw me, I landed on the piled bags of kitty litter, so I wasn't hurt from the fall, or from being thrown.
The rest of the teens and Dipper came running to see what happened and looked surprised at seeing me there.
"Hi guys!" I said, waving at them cheerily.
"Nikki! What are you doing here!?" Dipper asked, clutching his hat to his head.
"Well, I was in the neighborhood, thought I'd just drop in." I said, giggling a little at my joke.
"Stop joking around! How did you even get here!?" asked Dipper.
I thought for a moment, thinking for a moment if I should tell him the truth or not. I shrugged.
"…I flew here." I said, deciding to tell the truth.
"Nikki! I said to stop joking around!" Dipper yelled.
"But I'm not." I said.
"Whatever! Why are you here!?" asked Dipper.
"I wanted to hang out with you guys, so I followed you and I've been watching you guys through the vents." I said as Thompson finally stopped panicking and stood there, panting.
"You came here by yourself!?" asked Dipper.
"No." I said, and just as I said that, Stitch dropped down on top of Thompson, who threw Stitch like he did with me, and started running around screaming again. "I have Stitch with me." I said, gesturing to Stitch who had landed right next to me as the two of us unsuccessfully held in our laughter at the sight of Thompson running around.
"Well, you can't stay, go back home!" said Dipper.
"Dude, you're actually going to make your little sister walk all the way back home by herself with just her dog? Even I think that's low." Said Robbie.
Stitch an I look at each other, we got the same idea and nodded at each other. I got off the display and walked over to Wendy, tugging at her pant leg.
"Wendy, can we hang out with you guys?" I asked.
"Well, you two did get here on your own, and you definitely can't go back on your own. So sure, I don't see why not. Right guys?" Wendy asked as she turned towards the others who nodded in agreement. Then they all started walking off, leaving Robbie, Dipper, Stitch, and I.
"Your only five right?" Robbie asked and I nodded "And you got here all by yourself with your dog?" I nodded and he stared at me for a second before smirking and ruffling my hair as he walked past, calling back "Not bad kid." I laughed a little as I turned before freezing as I saw Dipper glaring at me, he sighed in frustration.
"Alright, you can stay, just stay away from me okay!?" Dipper asked, before turning and walking towards Wendy who was sitting on top of some shelves with some ice cream.
I sighed as Stitch stood next to me, growling in Dipper's direction. "C'mon, let's go find Mabel." I said as we went into the direction we saw Mabel run off to before we had fallen through the vent. We eventually found her sitting on the floor and leaning against a brightly colored display behind her, she was covered in pink stuff. "…Mabel?" I asked.
"Ugh, maybe I've had too much. What do you think?" Mabel asked as she looked to her right, Stitch and I looked where she was looking and saw no one there, she looked to her left and said "Of course you little angel!" and she acted like she grabbed something and started chewing on air, Stitch and I stared at her wide eyed for a moment before I put my arm in front of Stitch and started backing away, eyes on the floor.
"Don't make eye contact and back away slowly." I said and we eventually backed up into the next aisle. I sighed "Well, we may as well get something to eat, hopefully some of the snacks in here are still good." I said as Stitch and I walked to the snack aisle, I looked around and saw some Toffee Peanuts on a high shelf, I tried reaching for them, but they were too high up.
"Hey guys! We need more ice!" I heard Lee yell from across the store and looked in that direction, hands still reaching for the bag of peanuts.
"I'm on it!" I hear Dipper yell as I feel something placed in my hands, I look and see the bag of peanuts in my hand.
"Thanks Stitch!" I say.
"Huh?" I hear Stitch asks, which makes me stiffen up, as when I turn in his direction…he's on the complete opposite end of the aisle, nowhere near me or the peanuts. I look up and see a very faint see through form before it suddenly disappears. I stare up at where it was, wide eyed, mouth open, I hear Stitch walk up and stand next to me and look at each other, shock on both of our faces.
"…What-" I start to ask before Dipper suddenly screams from across the store, causing us both to jump and drop our snacks, we ran over to where the commotion was.
"What was that? I thought I heard some lady screaming back here." Said Lee.
"You freakin' out, kid?" asked Nate.
"Un, no. I'm cool. Everything's cool." Said Dipper.
"Then what's all this about?" Robbie asks as he points to a bag of spilled ice on the floor.
"That's uh, um uh…hey look! 'Dancy Pants Revolution'! The game that tricks people into exercising!" Dipper said as he pointed towards the game, the teens all walk towards it. "Heh heh, yeah let's all-let's go play that."
"Dipper, there is something in this store, and I don't mean us." I said.
"Don't be ridiculous Nikki, we're the only ones here." Dipper said, though didn't sound like he was convincing even himself as he followed the teens. I sighed and motioned for Stitch to follow as I went to watch Thompson play the game.
"Go! Go! Go! Go! Go!" Lee and Nate chanted as Thompson played the game.
"Wow. He's really terrible at this." Wendy said as I suddenly saw something in the corner of my eye, I look towards the door and froze as I saw that everyone's reflection in the glass were all skeletons, I stared wide eyed, not looking away as I reached back and tugged on Dipper's vest to get his attention.
"Heh heh, yeah. That's, that's great." Dipper said before I suddenly feel him freeze up behind me and can only hope that he saw what I was seeing as well, when the reflections of the skeletons turned to face us "I'll be right back." I hear Dipper say when my arm is suddenly grabbed and pulled back and I turned to see Dipper pulling me with him towards the phone and I hear Stitch following right behind us. Dipper gets to the phone, puts money in and dials the number for the house phone to the Shack, clutching the phone to his ear. "Come on, Grunkle Stan, pick up! Ugh, what is he doing!?"
"You know how he is, he's probably watching 'Baby Fights' again, and you know just as well as I do that when he does, he never gets out of his chair!" I said. Dipper sighed, dropped the phone and started walking towards Mabel, Stitch and I followed him.
"Mabel, I need your advice. We're hanging out in a haunted convenience store. I can't get a hold of Grunkle Stan, and if I say anything about it to any of these guys they'll just think I'm a scared little kid or something!" Dipper said as he paced back and forth, clutching his hat to his head "Mabel?" Dipper asked as Mabel only replied in a gurgling sound. I went to stand in front of her and my eyes widened as she looked worse than when I saw her a few moments ago, and she was shaking.
"Uh, I don't think Mabel's with us right now Dipper." I said nervously as Dipper came up and started shaking Mabel back and forth.
"Mabel! How many of those did you eat!?" Dipper asked as I picked up one of the empty packages that Mabel had been eating from.
"Beleven…teen…" Mabel said as my eyes widened when I read the name on the package.
"Smile Dip!? Dipper, don't you know how dangerous this stuff is!? There's a reason it's banned from America!" I said as Dipper let Mabel drop to the floor.
"Oh man. Oh man, oh man, oh man." Dipper said, panicking.
"Whoa guys, you might wanna see this." We hear Robbie say and we all walk over to see tape markings shaped like bodies on the floor.
"Whoa. The rumors are true!" said Lee.
"Dipper, this has to stop right now, we all have to leave!" I whispered to Dipper.
"Dude, I dare you to lie down in it." Said Robbie.
"Good idea! Go lie down in it!" Lee said to Nate.
"I'm a dead body, look!" Nate says as he walks over and starts to step into the markings.
"Wait! Maybe let's not do that." Dipper says, running in front of the group to face them.
"This guy's scared!" said Lee.
"All I'm saying is, why tempt the fates? I mean…what if this place really is…haunted?" Dipper asked before the teens all started booing.
"Yeah, take it down a notch, Captain Buzzkill!" said Robbie.
"I thought I was Dr. Funtimes?" asked Dipper.
"Well, you're acting like Captain Buzzkill! Right?" Robbie asked as the teens all nodded.
"Yeah, little bit." Wendy said and I looked at her in shock, hurt that she would do that to my brother.
"Status update: trapped in store with insane 9-year old." Tambry said as she texted on her phone.
"I'm not a 9-year-old!" Dipper yelled as he backed up towards the markings on the floor.
"Dipper stop!" I yelled, holding my hands out to try and stop him, but was too late as he laid down in the marking.
"I'm 13! Technically a teen!" Dipper said as the marking he laid in suddenly started glowing and the electricity flickered on and off when Tambry suddenly disappeared, dropping her cellphone in the process, Dipper picked up the phone and read from it "'Status update: AAAAUUUUUGGGGGGHHHHH!'" we look up and see Tambry on the security camera screen and we all scream.
"Tambry! Tambry!" Wendy yells.
"Can you hear us!?" asked Dipper.
"What are we supposed to do!?" asked Nate.
"I don't know man! I don't know!" Lee yells.
"Let's just go already!" Robbie yells.
"Thompson!" Wendy yells to Thompson who is still playing the Dancy Pants Revolution game.
"Wait! I've almost got the high score!" Thompson yells before he suddenly disappears then reappears on the screen of the game "Uh? What?"
"It's time to shake what your mama gave you!" the game said as arrows suddenly started falling on top of Thompson.
"No! So many arrows!" Thompson yells.
"You're a dance machine!" said the game.
"No! You're a dance machine!" Thompson yells before he starts crying.
"Oh no!" said Dipper.
"Thompson!" said Wendy.
"Forget them! Let's go!" Robbie said as he points to the open doors which suddenly close.
"What the…guys…it's locked." Wendy said as she tried to open the doors.
"OUTTA MY WAY!" Robbie yells as he grabs the cash register and throws it at the doors, but it disappears right before it hits and a green light goes towards Robbie.
"Everybody, wait! Whatever's doing this has to have some kind of reason! Maybe if we can figure out what it is, they'll let us out of here!" Dipper says as he pulls out the Journal and starts looking through it.
"Uh-uh they'll let us out of here!" Robbie says as he imitates Dipper "Yeah, that makes a lot of sense!"
"I don't know guys, maybe he's got a point!" said Wendy.
"Yeah right, I'm sure the ghost just wants to talk about his feelings!" Lee said before he suddenly floats into the air and disappears, reappearing on a cereal box "W-What?"
"I'm bonkers for eating you alive!" said the toucan on the cereal box as it raised the spoon it has in its wing.
"No!" Lee yells as Stitch covers my eyes so I don't see what's happening to Lee.
"Lee! Okay, okay…I'm with you kid! 100%, man!" Nate yells as Mabel suddenly floats in the air behind him, her eyes completely white.
"Mabel!" I yell.
"Welcome." Mabel says in a deep voice as everyone screams.
"They got Mabel!" Dipper yells.
"Welcome to your graves, young trespassers." Mabel says as she starts laughing.
"We're super sorry for hanging out in your store!" said Wendy.
"Yeah! Can we just go now and leave forever?" asked Dipper.
"Well…okay. You're free to go." Mabel said as the doors open and she floated past us to the hotdog stand "But before you leave, hotdogs are now half off. I know it might be crazy, but you gotta try these dogs!" Nate and Robbie scream as they run to the door, but it closes right before they get there "Just kidding about the hotdog sale!"
"Just let us out of here already!" Nate yells from where he's being held back by Robbie.
"I don't like your tone!" Mabel yells as her eyes glow and Nate suddenly floats into the air and disappears, and we hear a voice coming from the hotdog stand.
"No! I'M A HOTDOG!" Nate yells as we see a rotating hotdog that has Nate's face and hat on it.
Something suddenly grabs me from behind and I'm lifted up into the air, I look and I can't see what's holding me up.
"DIPPER!" I scream as I try to struggle to get down.
"NIKKI! PUT HER DOWN RIGHT NOW! LEAVE HER ALONE!" Dipper yells as I floated past them to Mabel's side.
"It begins." Mabel says as everybody and everything not connected to the floor suddenly floats to the ceiling and everything is flipped upside down where the ceiling is now the floor and vice versa and things start flying around the room. "Welcome to your home for all eternity!"
"Dipper, what do we do!?" asked Wendy.
"DUCK!" Dipper yells as a slushie machine flies right by them.
"Quick! In there!" Wendy yells as she and Dipper hide in a tipped over soda dispenser.
I keep struggling as I look down and see Stitch dodging all of the items flying around, trying to get close enough to help me, but is having a hard time of it, and I have no idea where in the world Robbie went to.
"Mabel! Snap out of it! Please!" I plead to her as I start to cry in fear, but nothing helps as she's still being possessed by the ghost. I suddenly feel like I'm being bounced a little hear some humming in my ear, sounding something like a lullaby, which would have been soothing if it wasn't for the terrifying situation I was in right now!
"Dude, what are you doing?!" I hear Wendy yell from somewhere behind me as items started flying really close around Mabel and I.
"Hey ghost!" I hear Dipper yell behind me and I turn enough to see Dipper standing there. Mabel's head suddenly turns around without her body turning, I scream at the sight as the rest of her body follows her and I am turned around as well and Dipper starts floating in the air. "I've got something to tell you! I'm not a teenager!" Dipper yells.
The glow in Mabel's eyes disappear and turn back to normal as Dipper and the items flying around suddenly fall to the floor. An old man suddenly appears floating behind Mabel, holding her by her hair, I turn my head to look behind me and see an old woman holding me gently in her arms. They both have nametags on, the man's reads Pa and the woman's Ma.
"Hohoho! Well why didn't you say so?" Pa said as he let's go of Mabel where she lands in a pile of candy.
"WAAH!" Mabel screams as she's dropped, she gets back up, holding her head. "Ohhh…"
"How old did you say you were?" Pa asked as Ma floated to the floor and gently sets me down where Stitch runs up an hugs me as I hug back.
"I'm…I'm twelve, technically not a teen." Dipper said reluctantly.
"When we were alive, teenagers were a scourge on our store!" said Ma.
"Always sassafrassin' customers with their boomy boxes and disrespectful short pants! So we decided to up and ban them! But they retaliated with this new fangled rap music." Said Pa.
"The lyrics, they were so, hateful! It was so shocking, we were stricken down with double heart attacks! That's why we hate teenagers so much! Don't we, honey?" Ma asked as she and Pa started nuzzling their noses together.
"But they're my friends, isn't there anything I can do to, help them?" asked Dipper.
"There is one thing. Do you know any funny little dances?" asked Pa.
"Uh…is there anything else I can do?" asked Dipper.
"NOOOO!" Pa yells as he lights himself on fire, causing Stitch and I to run to Wendy, jumping into her arms where she hugs us to her.
"OKAY OKAY OKAY! Um…well, I do know…the Lamby Lamby Dance. Bu-But I can't really do it, without a lamb costume!" Dipper says as he folds his arms before Pa snaps his fingers and Dipper is suddenly in a lamb costume "Oh, well…there it is." Dipper says before he takes a deep breath and starts singing and dancing.
Well…who wants a lamby, lamby, lamby?
I do! I do!
So, go up and greet your mammy, mammy, mammy
Hi there! Hi there!
"Yes, Yes! More! MORE!" Pa says as Dipper sings.
So march, march, march around the daisies,
Don't, don't, don't you forget about the ba-by!
"That was some fine, girly dancin' boy! Your friends are free." Pa said as the doors open.
"Well I don't think you have to worry about us coming back, so…" Dipper says as the ghosts disappear and everything starts going up, which quickly turns to down as the store flips right way up again and the teens reappear back to normal.
I run towards Dipper and tackle him in a hug, nearly knocking him over "Thank you Dipper." I said as he hugged me back tightly, we stood there for a moment before walking over to Mabel, Stitch sticking to my side.
"Ugghh…I'm never gonna eat or do anything ever again." Said Mabel.
"Hey! There's still some left!" Dipper said as he picked up a package of Smile Dip.
"EVIL!" Mabel yells as she slaps the package out of Dipper's hand.
"What-What happened after everything went crazy?" asked Lee.
"You are not going to believe it! The ghosts appeared, and Dipper had to…" Wendy started to say before she looked over and saw Dipper looking at her she looked back for a moment before turning back to her friends saying ""Uh, and uh, Dipper just grabbed a bat, and just started beating ghosts down, left and right, and the ghosts got all scared, and ran away like a couple of little girls, it was insane!"
"Alright! Dr. Funtimes!" Nate said as Wendy and Dipper looked at each other and miming zipping their lips closed.
Eventually we made it back outside and all piled into the car. While Wendy, Dipper, and I stood outside.
"Well, I'm probably scarred for life." Said Wendy.
"Yeah, that was pretty crazy." Dipper said as I leaned against him.
"I think I'll go stare at a wall for a while and RETHINK EVERYTHING. Hey, next time we hang out, let's stay at the Mystery Shack. Okay?" asked Wendy.
"Next time? Yah! Let's, let's hang out at the Shack! Yeah…next time…" Dipper said as he backed up and pulled me into the car and into the back seat, I sat in between him and Mabel, who was leaning against the window, sick to her stomach, and pulled Stitch to lay in my lap.
"OHHHHH…what kind of sick joke is this?" Mabel asked as I leaned into Dipper's shoulder, who wrapped his arm around me in response, and drift off to sleep.
I'm suddenly being shaken awake gently and I open my eyes to see Mabel sitting up and finding her the one shaking me, I rub my eyes and yawn as I see Dipper stoop down in front of me, with his back to me while looking over his shoulder, as Mabel lift's me up and sets me on Dipper's back and holding me there till Dipper finds his balance and starts walking to the Shack, with me riding piggyback on his back with Mabel and Stitch on either side of him.
"Th'nks D'pper." I mumble into his neck as I start to doze off again and he hums lightly in answer.
I'm suddenly jolted completely awake by a crashing sound and I look up to see the TV come flying out of the window, which is probably what caused that crashing sound as it broke through the glass and Grunkle Stan peers out and stares at us as the four of us stare back.
"Uh, couldn't find the remote." Grunkle Stan said before ducking back into the window and we look at each other.