Hello everyone, :D Welcome back! and yes I know that I didn't upload this yesterday but I am now so, all good?
I have my reasons why... Anyway.
Onto Chapter 12...
Danny, Mabel, Dipper, Soos, and Stan were in the living room watching a new series called 'Ducktective 2, The new thing.' Only an hour ago the party was canceled and everyone went back to normal, including Wendy who went to change out of her dress so she could hang out tonight.
"So..." Danny asked the family awkwardly. "Ducktective is a popular series here?" They looked at him for a moment as they couldn't explain it.
"Yeah, it's..." Dipper tried to explain, "It's uh... Good." After watching the show they decided to go outside and enjoy the hot night for a while.
Dipper and Mabel attacked Danny with water until Wendy arrived and started defending Danny saying, "We Drench!" over and over hitting the twins. Stan sat on a chair on the side with a pit cola, as Soos was video calling melody.
Mabel jumped on Danny's back as Dipper sprayed Wendy with water. She fell to the ground shaking her wet hair, "Ha ha." Dipper laughed high fiving Mabel. They didn't notice Danny form two snowballs and give one to Wendy with a wink. They had the same plan.
When Dipper started saying, "Don't underestimate the little g-" Wendy threw the snowball into Dipper's face stunning him.
"You were saying dude?" she said rhetorically. Mabel slipped behind Danny and grabbed his snow ball and put it down Wendy's top.
"Ahhh! dude." Wendy screamed as they all laughed including Soos and Stan. Even Danny was laughing so she grabbed the snow off the ground and threw it into Danny's face.
"Hey, no fair, im on your team." Danny sarcastically sulked, but Wendy didn't care.
Danny formed a pile of snow on the ground as Dipper, Mabel, Danny, Wendy, and now Soos joined in with a snow ball fight.
All seemed friendly until...
Ford wondered out of the shack with Stan nudging him and offering, "Hey bro, you got to see this, ha ha, children fighting." Ford gave him a stern look and Danny watched how he acted with Dipper.
"No, I'm going on a walk." Stan frowned and picked up a lump of snow that had been thrown close to him earlier.
"Come on?" Stan asked pleadingly holding up the snow. Ford walked away, everyone stared at him.
"That was rude," Danny stated. Stan gave a nervous chuckle, "heh heh, well you know how he likes his work..."
"Hey look!" Stan changed the subject pointing to the pitch dark sky. "We better get you kids to bed." He suggested leaving everyone to drop the snow.
Danny, Dipper, Mabel, Soos, and Stan went into the shack as Wendy went home. Soos went to his room Stan the sofa, and the rest of the usual routine.
"Man, I guess you were right Dipper. About Ford that is." Dipper smiled proudly as it sunk frying to figure out if it was a compliment or saying that he isn't right about anything else.
"Thanks?" he replied.
They filled Mabel in with the news, and after a good long talk, they all were caught up.
"So, Ford is acting weird?" Mabel questioned despite their conversation.
"Yes, but what now?" Dipper asked.
"We could go and get the Gnomes to kidnap him and interrogate him," Mabel answered with one of her over the top plans.
"Maybe not..." Danny suggested. They all thought hard...
"I got it!" Dipper unmeaningly screamed, after a few seconds of waiting to see if anyone woke up he continued... "We follow him and get him to reveal his planning. It's Grunkle Ford, he will tell us... Right?"
"Alright, when?" Danny asked Dipper but Mabel answered.
"I think that we should wait for him to do one more thing, I didn't see Ford do anything and you might be wrong, and he might just be doing his experiments?"
"Away from his lab, home, family, and friends?" Dipper added.
"I mean you never know, he might be planning a surprise and doesn't want us to ruin it." Mabel defended Ford.
Everyone went quiet.
"I think if he does one more thing-" Danny was interrupted by Ford saying, "Urgh, this family... I got to sort the-" Danny came out of the room and to the top of the stairs, Ford was about to walk past without noticing him but Danny asked him. "Sort the what?" Dip and Mab came out and waited by Danny curious.
"Nothing! shouldn't you be in bed children?" He shouted.
Danny, Dipper, and Mabel went into the room after that caused.
"Strange enough to think something is up sis?" Mabel, who sat in a tiny ball on her bed rocking was tearing up.
"uh huh." Dipper sat beside her and stopped her crying.
"Ford has never shouted like that before..." She said giving a small sob.
"*Sigh* Let's go to sleep and sort this in the morning," Dipper said as he tucked his sister into bed and Danny got into the small bed on the floor.
"Don't worry Mabel, we will find out what is going on here and make him apologize for shouting," Danny said, and as he finished they were both asleep.
Like last time with Dipper, Danny snuck down and went to go into the lab, as soon as he got the where the barrier would be he held his hand out but it wasn't here... it must have been off for some strange reason.
Danny took a few steps inside and tried to listen but couldn't hear words, only mumbles as the shield came back on pushing Danny back making him moan but not bleed. This time he didn't go full force on it like last time.
"Aghh!" He cried, it still hurt even if it didn't leave a mark.
He went up to the room making sure they were still asleep and crept into his bed.
"Tomorrow." He whispered...