Dipper and Mabel ran up to Grunkle Stan and hugged him.

"Kids!" said Stan. "I can't believe it! I thought I lost you two!"

Soos hugged Stan.

"Mr. Pines! It's really you! I've been hugging strangers to practice for this moment."

Wendy slammed into Stan for a hug.

"We missed you, you old codger."

The Warners went for a tackle and took them down.

"Did ya miss us?" said Dot.

The trio gave Stan big, sloppy kisses. He got up off the ground and spat at the floor.

"I've missed you knuckleheads too. Even you three!"

He signaled to the Warners, who had big smiles on their faces.

"It's good to have you back."

"So...what's everyone doing here?" said Dipper.

"Yeah," said Mabel, "there's like monsters and gnomes, and is Pacifica wearing a potato sack?"

"Hey! Even in a sack I still look better than you."

Yakko put his arm on Pacifica's shoulder.

"Do ya really need to keep up the 'mean rich girl' attitude, Pacifica? You're better off without it."

Pacifica groaned and rolled her eyes. Dot giggled as she watched Wax Larry King's head try to eat Grenda's hair. Suddenly a scream rang out.

"Hey, everyone!" said Pituitaur. "Eye-bat!"

Stan closed the door and had everyone get down and scatter as an eye-bat from outside turned a raccoon to stone and carried it away. As the eye-bat flew away, Stan illuminated the room with a single match revealing the people sitting around him.

"Welcome to what's left of normal around here. Home base."

The Mystery Shack was truly in ruins. The windows were broken, the curtains were ripped, almost everything was destroyed. They sat down on the floor as they listened to Stan's story.

"So I was hammering signs out back when the sky started vomiting nightmares. I listen to a lot of AM radio so I knew what this meant: the end of the world. What I didn't expect was what happened next. Turns out whatever you and my brother did to the shack with your unicorn voodoo made the crazy place invincible to weirdness."

"What," said Dot, "ya really thought I'd beat up unicorns for no reason?"

"That's when Possum Breath over here shows up leading a bunch of injured stragglers through the forest. They needed a place to stay and since the mayor got captured, I elected myself de facto chief. The plan's to stay in here and eat Brown Meat until we run out, then I vote we eat the gnomes."

As the Warners looked around, it seemed as if they finally realized what they truly got themselves into. Weirdmageddon wasn't a normal adventure; people were suffering under the fist of a tyrant ruler and their lives were on the line. It was like how life was in Acme Falls, but without the supernatural element. The Warners also knew that they could die here if they weren't careful. After all, although they were toons they weren't completely invincible. Bill's attacks could be serious enough to badly injure or even kill them.

"Yeesh," said Dot, "this place is a mess!"

"It's not the Ritz but at least the monsters inside know how to massage," said Stan, lying down on a lawn chair.

"If you'll excuse me I'm gonna redecorate the place," said Dot, starting upstairs.

"So you're really just gonna let Bill win?" said Dipper.

"Look, kiddo. We got a good deal here. Besides, I'm sure wherever the rest of the townsfolk are, they're fine."

Stan accidentally slammed his hand on the remote, turning the TV on.

"Uhhhhhhh...I wouldn't be so sure about that," said Yakko, pointing to the TV.

"This is Shandra Jimenez reporting live from the inside of Bill's castle. Here for the first time are images of what's happened to the captured townsfolk. Viewers are advised to look away if they don't want to see their friends turned into a twisted throne of human agony."

Yakko shuddered as Dot came back.

"I'm back, what'd I- oh..."

"Mom and dad?" said Pacifica.

"My family!" said Wendy.

"Deupty Durland!" said Sherrif Blubs.

"I can't look," said Wakko, turning away and covering his eyes, "it's too cruel!"

"Is there no one who will save the people of this town? I'm Shandra Jimenez and I'm being turned into stone by a flying eyeball."

The people mourned their losses as the eye-bat carried Shandra away. At that moment, the Warners had a moment of clarity: these people were devoid of hope. Without hope, they would only be tortured by Bill even more until their deaths. They were the only ones who could lead them to victory and defeat him.

"No," said Yakko as if responding to Shandra. "Sibs, time to do a little pep talk."

He climbed on top of Multi-Bear's head.

"Alright everybody, listen up!"

The room became dead silent and listened to what Yakko had to say.

"Don'tcha see what's goin' on? You're letting Bill make your lives miserable. If we don't fight back, we'll be next! We gotta stick together, team up, and stop Bill! With your strengths and our zaniness, we can save everybody! Or die trying!"

He pulled Wakko up.

"Or try dying!" said Wakko.

He pulled Dot up and had her join them.

"Or do some tie-dyeing!" said Dot, pulling out a hippie shirt with a peace sign on it.

She grabbed Dipper's hand and pulled him up.

"They're right," said Dipper. "Before Ford was captured, he told me Bill has a weakness. If we can save Ford, we can beat Bill!"

"Whoa, whoa, whoa!" said Stan. "Have you all forgotten who's in charge here? Besides, we're only safe inside! It's not like we can take the Mystery Shack to Bill."

"Wha- whoa!" said McGucket. "Holy hootenany! Flapjack and fiddlebanjos. Sorry, sorry. Got a little excited."

He slapped his knee.

"What I meant to say is I think I figured out a way to fight Bill and rescue Ford. But we're all gonna have to work together."

Yakko, Wakko, Dot, Dipper, Mabel, Soos, and Wendy went over to McGucket and examined his blueprints.

"Whoa," said Dipper, "these blueprints are incredible, McGucket!"

"Faboo!" said Wakko.

"This is your most amazing invention yet!" said Mabel.

"Transformers," said Dot, "eat your heart out."

"Not bad," said Yakko, "but ya gotta have more than just those weapons. After all, gags are pretty powerful too! Just ask my sibs! We should..."

He and his siblings muttered their ideas as they tweaked the design to incorporate gags.

"Even better!" said McGucket.

"Question," said Soos, "does it have any gun-swords? I watch a lot of anime and, uh, trust me, you're gonna want some gun-swords."

"Nerd," Dot muttered, getting a snicker from her brothers in response to her remark.

"What's an anime?" said McGucket.

"We have much to discuss," said Soos.

"Discuss nothing!" said Stan. "These scribbles are a bunch of cockamamie balderdash! Excuse my French."

"Try all ya want," said Dot, "but that attitude's not gonna be enough to stop us."

"And where would you even find a bunch of idiots who would be crazy enough to build it?" said Stan.

"You're lookin' at 'em!" said Wakko, his tongue sticking out from his mouth as he smiled.

Everyone except Stan cheered. After Dot finished decorating the Mystery Shack to make it look like its normal self again, the people formed their groups: some went to the junkyard to get spare parts while others put them together.

"Those who're gonna get the parts," said Yakko, "go with Dot. Those helping McGucket put it together, go with Soos and Wakko. Everybody else...you're comin' with me. I gotta teach ya guys how to use gags!"


Once the weapons were assembled and the troops learned how to use the weapons initially designed for the Shack, Yakko decided to teach everybody how to use the gags. Wakko and Dot popped in to help a few times, but let Yakko do most of the work.

"Ok," said Yakko, putting his hands together. "Let's get started!"

He summoned a projector from out of nowhere and used it to project images as he talked.

"Now, toons like me and my sibs can summon gags outta thin air 'cause we were drawn that way, but it's a different story for you guys so I had some gag-weapons installed for you to use. Lucky for you, ya got the best mentor around. Sibs?"

They brought out a few gag-weapons.

"How are they even gonna help us?" said Pacifica.

"They might seem pretty useless to ya, but that's because ya don't know how powerful these babies really are. They might not hurt as much as the other weapons, but they do a pretty good job at stunning for a while. We've got the 'Pie, Banana Peel, and Baloney Thrower', the 'Anvilinator', and the 'Mallet Launcher'. Dedicated to nothin' but slowing people down, flattening them, hopefully keeping their heads in the right place, and overall comedic effect."

The group laughed at how seriously Yakko was taking it, but he didn't mind. As far as he was concerned, he was doing his job right.

"Come on," he encouraged, "try them out!"

Pacifica used the Anvilinator, which was merely a piece of rope attached to nothing, to drop an anvil on a tree. The tree was flattened, but popped back into its regular shape within ten seconds. Mabel used the Mallet Launcher, which was a large two-sided gun. She aimed the gun at a punching bag and pushed a button. A mallet was sent flying out of one side of the gun and knocked it down. Then she pushed the other button and accidentally sent out a mallet attached to the inside of the gun, which hit Yakko right on the head.

"Oh my gosh, are you ok?!" she said, running over to him.

She helped him up.

"Yeah, I'm fine."

Mabel let out a sigh of relief. Meanwhile, Candy used the Pie, Banana Peel, and Baloney Thrower on a few training robots Wakko made in his spare time. As they walked over, she landed a perfect hit with a pie to the face on the first robot, baloney at the stomach of the second one, and a banana peel in front of the last one, making it slip in its tracks.

"Alright!" said Yakko, happy that the training was going well. "See? Beating Bill's gonna be a piece of cake!"