Disclaimer: I don't own Gravity Falls Author's Note: In this chapter, Mabel gets to run the Mystery Shack, with help from her family of course in Chapter 25: Boss Mabel AU
Family Tree:
Stanley and Carla - James and Jessie Pines
Stanford and Addi - Shauna and Shannon Pines
James Pines and Tara Grayson - Cormac (19), Arya, Aria, and Anais Pines (15)
Jessie Pines and Lillian Prescott - Tanya (21), Stanley Jr aka Junior, (16) and Tyrone Pines (14)
Shauna Pines and Marcus Valdez - Quincy Pines (7)
Shannon is still single.
Enjoy Fellow Gravity Fallers!
The following day at the Mystery Shack…
Stan, along with his wife, Carla sit together on their loveseat recliner, while Dipper sits right on top the dinosaur skull, writing down all the questions he wants to ask Junior, Tanya and Ty about their demon powers, as Mabel sits on the floor eating Chipackerz with Waddles. The usual activity for the Pines at the Mystery Shack to start off before getting to work.
Mabel comments in response of the commercial, "They taste just like chips."
Ford and Adeline sit together on the couch, all of them watching the game channel on TV where it plays the show, Cash Wheel. They all watch as the contestants participate, watching one of them win the "Cash Shower", the man laughing and greedily punching people away from taking his reward.
"I like that guy's style," Stan happily comments, though Adeline wondering.
"They'd show the fighting on live TV?"
Ford sighs, rolling his eyes to what's being depicted on TV, "One of those trends, I suppose."
Within moments, Soos comes right into the living room, addressing Stan and Carla as he got everyone else's attention as well, "Mister and Missus Pines, we got tourists at nine 'o'clock! A whole bus load of them!"
Soon enough, a large bus full of tourists come right on out to take a visit at the Mystery Shack, confirming Soos' claim.
Stan and Carla beam as they see all the potential suckers, "Hot tamales, it's a jackpot! Soos, make some new attractions!" Carla says excitedly as he commands Soos to quickly whip up some eye-catching pieces.
"You got it, Boss!" Soos glues together taxidermy animal parts together, his back being covered in the adhesive and various pieces.
Stan orders Wendy nearby, who was reading her magazine like usual, "Wendy, mark up those prices. The higher the better!"
Carla sternly reminds her husband, "Stan don't go overboard with the prices."
Stan sighs, but respects his wife's wishes, "Eh alright. Only make one zero then, Wendy."
Carla nods in approval with a smile, "That's better."
Wendy chortles under her breath, seeing Stan get taken down a peg. Though Dipper still feels to remark about the high prices, "Yeesh, Grunkle Stan and Grauntie Carla, it's like when you look at tourists all you see are wallets with legs."
Carla politely tells Dipper, "We like to take advantage of out-of-towners who come near and far to see our attractions and buy our products," she giggles in delight of it.
Stan chuckles, "That's not true," he claims, though in his eyes, he does see the tourists as wallets with legs in a sense, watching two parents and their child talking as another person gets out of their car and vomits on the parking lot. Stan rubs his eyes and tells Dipper, "Clean up on the front lawn!"
Dipper reluctantly sighs, getting the mop and bucket to clean up the projectiled mess.
Later...
A little boy inserts a penny into a machine that could tell him a message. He eagerly awaits while watching the inner mechanism through a glass window. By the time he gets the message, it reads, "Thanks for the penny! -Stan and Carla." The boy walks away in disappointment as Stan and Carla show off the multiple attractions in their parlor area.
"Ladies and gentlemen! Looking around our Mystery Shack, you'll see many wondrous roadside attractions," Carla starts as they walk to the center of the place with the tour group.
Stan continues, "Be amazed at the only known photo of a horse… riding another horse!" Stan and Carla point towards a portrait of a horse indeed riding on another horse as if it were a human, "That's… that's pretty good." The tourists bought into it and take many photos of the picture. Stan and Carla go up to the stage with the red tarp hiding what's hidden within, the couple both holding the rope to unveil what was hidden as Stan continues, "Be astounded by the horrible, preteen wolfboy!" The two pull down the rope, the curtains revealing Dipper without a shirt, wearing only a headband with fake wolf ears, fake fangs in his mouth, and a faux pair of wolf fur pants and a tail to complete the outfit. Dipper himself being uncomfortable in front of strangers while in the getup.
"Oh look at him! With all that hair; his body's changing!" Carla exaggerates, whispering to Stan's ears, "Don't tell the girls and Cory."
Dipper takes out his fake fangs to express to his great-uncle and aunt, "Grunkle Stan and Grauntie Carla, this is demeaning."
Stan jokes about, keeping up with the act, "What? I don't know… DE-MEANING of that word!" Stan laughs as did the rest of the tour group from the joke with him adding, "If you throw money at him, he dances."
"Aim in the bucket in front of the boy, will you? Not right at him, please," advises Carla as the tourist do so to not hurt Dipper. Dipper appreciating Carla's input as he dances on stage while Stan uses a large glass jar to catch the dollar bills and coins in glee, "Thank you!"
Meanwhile at the cash register in the gift shop part of the Mystery Shack, Mabel holds up what appear to be bumper stickers, "Behold! Mystery Shack bumper stickers! You can stick 'em on your bumper or… over your husbands mouth Am I right ladies and gents?" Mabel points to one who seems to get it, "She knows what I'm talking about!"
The older lady customer simply giggles and says, "You are bad! How much?"
Mabel hands her the bumper sticker, "Hey it's on the house. That's the Mabel-difference," she waves goodbye to the leaving, satisfied customer, "Thanks for visiting!"
"What?!" Stan shouts from behind a cardboard cutout of himself, not pleased of Mabel's gesture, "What the heck do you think you're doing?"
"Business!" Mabel pushes a few buttons on the register for fun to make the sound, "Ching! Ching! Ching!"
Carla politely advises her great-niece, being less upset than her husband, "Mabel, pumpkin, next time, could you please ask us first before giving an item away?"
Mabel nods to her Grauntie, thankfully her being more loose compared to Stan, "Sure, Grauntie Carla. I just thought it would be nice to do as the Mabel-difference."
Stan sighs and argues, "But we can't give stuff away, Mabel. Everything always has a price. You're off of register duty," he crosses his arms to his great-niece, displaying his authority.
Mabel frowns to her great-uncle, "But… but-"
"Not buts except yours out the door. Now shut your yapper and get goin'."Stan gently pushes Mabel away from the register, but Mabel argues back with her hands to her hips.
"Grunkle Stan, whatever happened to "please" and "thank you", hmm?" Mabel grins, taking out two stickers, "Oh here they are!" she places the stickers on her great-uncle's face. Carla giggles from the display, though Stan expresses his discontent.
"I do use those words… I just don't often say them," Stan places the 'please' sticker on the back of the register, "You can't always use "please" when it comes to business. In fact, using the word gives me a burning sensation." Stan places the "thank you" sticker on the back of Soos' head when he passes by, though Carla removing it before he noticed.
Dipper goes up to Stan and Carla, voicing his complaints about the gimmick, still in his wolf costume, "Grunkle Stan, Grauntie Carla, why do I have to wear this wolf costume?" he feels the faux fur, feeling it not being that bad to irritate his skin.
Carla kneels down to Dipper, "You don't have to wear it any longer if you don't feel like it," this made Dipper smile with Carla adding, "Did you know you weren't the only one to star as an attraction here? When they were younger, Jessie and James took part in being an attraction, as did Shauna and Shannon along with all of your cousins. Some liked it more than the others," she think back to Shauna and Shannon in their childhood having been dressed as "living" plant people, the twin girls having been utterly embarrassed through the whole thing until they got ice cream afterwards to make up for it. Knowing that his family members have been put through the same situation, it made Dipper better, but he wasn't happy about the fake attractions.
Dipper speaks as he takes off the headband, "You have these dumb, fake exhibits in the Shack. Meanwhile, I've seen actual, amazing things in the forest every day. What if you hunted down a real attraction instead of lying to people for a living?"
Mabel adds, "And you should to be nicer to your employees too, Grunkle Stan."
Mabel and Dipper high-five each other, agreeing with their suggestions. Carla and Stan give each other a worried look, thinking of the real, dangerous creatures of the forest they would never think of using for their attractions. Of course the older couple were offended their attractions being called dumb.
"We put a lot of work into making those attractions every week. Soos too for being a great help," Carla defends with a grin, "Besides, the people love them and we enjoy creating weird wonders. And your Grunkle can be nice, he may be strict but he means well."
Stan heavily sighs, pinching the bridge of his nose saying, "Look, if you two got a problem with how we run the Shack, take it up with the complaints department," he smiles when he raises up a nearby trash bin, "Zing! Hehe."
Mabel gets out a pen and paper, mumbling, "I am going to write them such a letter." She covers her writing with another arm so they wouldn't see.
Stan then gets an idea, "Kids, I got a job for you both," he then calls over to Soos and Wendy nearby while they do their jobs, "you too, Soos! Wendy!" Stan goes over to get the glittery paint and brushes for them to use. Wendy groans in defiance, but follows anyways to not lose her job.
Soon enough, Dipper, Mabel, along with Soos and Wendy get into their jumpsuits and start painting the sign with glitter with Carla advising with raising her voice.
"Not too much! Just on the letters should be enough!"
"Glittery signs attract tourists! Also large birds…" Stan trails off, a large bird swooping down on Soos to antagonize the young man, getting a chuckle out of Stan though Carla nudging him as they left to their work.
Dipper wasn't pleased at all, "Okay, is it just me or is having Grunkle Stan as a boss seriously the worse? At least Grauntie Carla isn't so bad."
Wendy fully agrees with Dipper as she turns toward him to vent, "I know, right?"
Soos then voices, "I tried to give them a suggestion to improve the Shack once," he takes out a piece of paper of a drawing of himself wearing a question mark costume to show to his friends, "I had this idea where I could be the Mystery Shack mascot. Questiony the question mark. I ask people questions, you know, do a question dance."
Mabel was totally onboard with his idea, "That sounds amazing!"
"Cool!" Dipper agrees.
"Totally," Wendy adds with a nod and smile.
Soos frowns, putting away the drawing in his pocket to admit, "Yeah well… Stan said I couldn't handle it."
Mabel gets infuriated as she yells, "He said what?!" She climbs down the sign, taking off the jumpsuit and into the Shack where she confronts Stan and Carla as they wave goodbye to the tourist group. Mabel's gonna give a piece of her mind.
"And remember folks!"
"We put the 'fun' in no refund!" Stan finishes for Carla, the couple heading inside the gift shop with a large jar full of money. Stan closing the door behind them as he laughs, "Suckers."
Mabel catching her Grunkle and Grauntie by surprise when she addresses, "You!" causing Stan and Carla to jump slightly from being startled, "Grunkle Stan you've gone too far this time!" Stan starts walking off in the direction of the office, Mabel still questioning Stan's choices, "Did you seriously tell Soos not to follow his hopes and dreams because he couldn't handle it?"
Carla says in response to to debunk, "Now we didn't say for Soos to not follow his hopes and dreams. We've known him since he was a boy and we were thinking what's best for him."
"But Soos really wanted to be Questiony the question mark, how hard can that be for him?"
Stan sits on the office chair as he tells, "Look kid, let me break it down for you. Being a boss is about commanding respect. If you give people everything they've asked for, they'll walk all over you. A lesson that my kids and Ford's kids know well. We taught them ourselves."
Carla gets Mabel a barrel for her to stand on as the girl argues, "No way! I bet you'd make way more money being nice than being a big grumpy grump to everyone all the time."
Stan points over to Carla with a grin, "Carla's more an expert on that schtick than me. She's the nicer one between us. But let me tell ya, even nice people need to have a backbone too." Why him and his wife make a great team.
"I've got plenty of it," smiles Carla.
Stan sighs happily, but continues to argue with Mabel, "You think you know more about business than we do? You think you could wear this hat?" he points to his fez hat.
"Yeah, 'cause I give people respect. And glittery stickers," Mabel places a sticker on her own face.
Stan then boasts, "Ha! I'd make more money on vacation than you would running this place," he then sighs to a memory of when Shannon opened a similar argument to what Mabel started.
"Then why don't you go on vacation? A nice trip for you and Carla to go on while I take care of things here," Mabel smiles to the thought, believing she'll prove her great-uncle wrong about her capabilities.
"Well the last time we let a twelve-year old girl run the Shack… Junior almost got sold away to a customer who thought he was for sale," Carla shares, not entirely onboard with the idea of letting Mabel run things on her own, but gets an idea, "I'll have Jessie and the rest of the family check up on you guys while we're gone."
Mabel waves her off in confidence, "Have faith in me, Grauntie, I have the charisma to run this business."
Carla sighs, still going to contact her son and daughter, along with her nieces and grandkids to help Mabel out and make sure the Mystery Shack isn't in shambles or worse.
Stan slyly grins in intrigue, "Interesting… Alright, I'm a wagering man. Three days. Seventy-two hours," he sets the digital clock to countdown the hours, "You run the Shack while we go on vacation. We'll coax Ford and Addi to come with us too. If you make more money than me, I guess that means you're right about how Carla and I run our business," Mabel glances down for a moment before focusing back on him when he adds to the wager, "but if you lose…" he scrawls the word 'loser' on a blank white shirt, "Um… you gotta wear this Loser shirt all summer. Haha!"
Mabel stands her ground, accepting the challenge before her, "Fine. But if I win, I'm gonna be the boss for the rest of the summer. Plus, you have to sing an apologizing song with lyrics by me. Mabel."
Carla chuckles from the exchange, remarking, "Oh boy, Stan, you've got yourself some competition."
"Deal!" Mabel and Stan says in unison, making the deal. Mabel putting a purple heart sticker on his nose with determined eyes.
Carla claps her hands together and says, "Well that settles it! I'll go tell Addi and Ford about the vacation and make some calls!" she trots off, but before doing so, she asks her husband, "Where exactly are we going for our vacation?"
Stan grins, knowing where to go to earn some cash, "To a place where I can make money-and have fun doing it."
Soon enough, Stan, Carla, Adeline and Ford pack their essentials they'd need for the trip. Stan sporting a blue Hawaiian shirt with white flowers and a pair of white pants and brown shoes, the shirt exposing the gold chain medallion that hangs around his neck. Carla wearing something similar with a Hawaiian pink shirt with an hibiscus pattern, a long matching skirt and open-toe sandals. Ford wearing a burgundy Hawaiian shirt with dark slacks and black shoes. As for Adeline, a simple summer dress with a sun hat and her shoes she normally wears. Mabel wasn't the only one to see them off as Dipper and the rest of the family came to do the same.
"You all have a safe trip now," James gave his parents and uncle and aunt hugs as did the the rest of the family.
"We'll keep an eye on Mabel," Jessie whispers to her mother, then remembers what she wanted to say since last night, "and again, I'm sorry for how I behaved last night. I've wanted to vent that after so long. I sent an apology letter to Jimmy Snakes like you suggested too," Jessie rubs the back of her head, having felt foolish the way she acted and the language she used in front of the kids.
Carla nods in approval, "I'm sure he'd much appreciate it, Jessie. Apology accepted."
"See you in seventy-two hours, Mabel! We'll see who makes more money. And we'll keep in touch!" Stan tosses his fez hat to Mabel, the hat landing perfectly on her head as he lets Carla drive this time. The family says their goodbyes and waves them off, some heading back home or work, while others remained such as Jessie and Shannon to give Mabel some pointers.
Dipper goes up to his sister and asks, "Mabel, did you just make a bet with a professional con man?"
Mabel waves him off with a confident grin, "Oh come on, being a better boss than Stan will be a cinch!"
Jessie and Shannon chuckle in Mabel's direction. Jessie expressing with a grin and a pat on Mabel's shoulder, "Mabel, honey, there's quite a bit you should know about my dear ol' daddy."
"And how to run a business like a well oiled machine as a place like the Mystery Shack," Shannon crosses her arms and giving Mabel a wink.
Mabel's eyes seem to sparkle, thinking if there's anyone else who knows business, it would be them, "Teach me your ways, ladies!"
"Alright, kiddo," Jessie and Shannon lead Mabel to the gift shop, Jessie starting as she walks tall as if owning the place, "first thing you need to do is be assertive. Don't be too lenient when it comes to your employees and customers. Given the chance, they'll walk all over you," she spots Wendy slacking off with reading her magazine while a customer waits, "Like so," Jessie raises her voice to display her authority, "Wendy, off the magazine! You got a customer at the waiting!" Wendy sighs, stopping what she'd prefer to do and rings up the customer, then goes back to do what she's doing, to which Jessie responds with, "Stay off those magazines, girl, you're not on break," Wendy groans in protest, pouting as she crosses her arms.
Mabel didn't exactly like how Jessie handled it and says, "Aunt Jessie, she can read her magazine when there is no customer at the register. You sounded just like Grunkle Stan."
Jessie shrugs, admitting, "Yeah, well it works as Daddy taught me what I needed to know to help him and Mama run this place in its early years."
Shannon assures Mabel, "You know, I didn't like how Stan ran things either, so I went to college to get a degree in business to run my own with my sister being my partner," she guides Mabel to Stan and Carla's office to show her the paperwork they do, "and as a business owner, you're gonna need to know about money management; and keep track of sales; and how much each employee earns."
Mabel's eyes wonder around the room, getting ideas of how to spruce up the space with what she wants for it, not entirely paying attention to all the paperwork spiel Shannon's informing her about until she hears Shannon says the part, "And make a great appearance, that's one thing I took to heart from my aunt and uncle."
Mabel smiles in awe, practically begging Shannon, "Show me how to be business fabulous…"
Shannon grins to the girl, holding up her makeup she takes out of her purse,"Say no more, Mabel. You're gonna look like the savviest, casual business lady one has ever seen… for a few days."
"Well, I'll let you ladies have fun with that," Jessie heads out the door, "give any of us a call if you need help!"
"Sure will, Aunt Jessie!" Mabel waves goodbye as her and Shannon get to work picking a good outfit for the girl. Shannon and Mabel go up to the attic room where Mabel starts creating a maroon colored suit with a matching dress skirt. Shannon picking out a plain pink shirt and starts dazzling it up with white rhinestones that make the shape of a question mark. Mabel tries on her new outfit her and Shannon helped make, looking in the mirror as she adds the fake black glasses and the shoulder pads underneath the sleeves on top the shoulders.
Shannon smiles for Mabel, clapping her hands and being like a supportive mother, "You look amazing, sweetie!"
Mabel gives Shannon a big hug, "Thanks for helping me out with my outfit. These rhinestones are so pretty. Now I'm dressed for success!"
"To impress, Little Miss Mystery!" Shannon praises her with a high-five, helping with cleaning up the extra fabric and supplies on the floor.
Mabel gives the title thought, loving it, "Oh wow, it does have a nice ring to it. Say, Aunt Shannon, how did you run things back when you ran the Mystery Shack?"
Shannon giggles a bit before replying, feeling comfortable talking about her harrowing experiences from all those years ago, "Well, true I was nice to people and Shauna helped make new attractions for the tourists to see. But… I was careless because someone trusted two twelve-year old's to watch a five-year old demon-girl and a four-month old demon-baby," she sighs, "but that's a whole 'nother story."
"Ah, you should tell it sometime. I'll try not to be so careless with my Mabel Difference," Mabel perks a wide smile.
"It's what I called myself when I ran the Mystery Shack for a few days like you and Dipper are doing," Shannon concludes with, "Now that you have the look down-pat and got to know some business tactics -I hope- I believe you're ready to be boss of this place," she gives a thumbs up as did Mabel returns the gesture.
From outside the door, Dipper smiles to the scene, thinking aloud, "I guess I shouldn't be too worried. I mean, how much money could Stan even make on vacation?"
Meanwhile on the set of Cash Wheel...
A young man writes down a clipboard, glancing up at Stan as he asks, stopping what he's doing, "Can I help you sir?"
Stan stood proudly with confidence as he proclaims, "I'm here to take all your cash from your wheel."
The young man sighs, "I'm sorry, sir, you're going to have to wait in line to try out with the other potential contestants," he points over to the line of people waiting to be signed up and chosen.
Stan wasn't pleased until Carla goes over to her husband, "I know you have a shot, honey, I'll be cheering for you in the live-studio audience. Won't we Ford and Addi?"
Ford and Adeline sign up at the both to await being chosen as audience members for the upcoming episode of Cash Wheel. The two nod over to Carla and Stan, making the old man smile.
"This should be quite interesting," Adeline remarks.
"Just remember, Stanley, be on your best behavior to not get kicked off the show," Ford reminds.
"Pssh, I've watched just about every episode of Cash Wheel. I got this!" Stan cheers.
Back at the Mystery Shack the next day…
"You wanted to see us, Mabel?" Soos asks as he opens the door. He was told by Tanya that Mabel would be running the Mystery Shack for a few days while Stan, Carla, Addi and Ford were on vacation. Which relieved Soos as he would have made a scene if otherwise.
Wendy, Soos and Dipper enter inside the main office, noticing immediately Mabel having re-decorated the whole room to her liking. First, it being noticeably cleaner and having less clutter. Second, Mabel having added more pink to the room with pink paper hearts hanging from the ceiling with a frilly bulletin board to the side. Finally, Mabel added some more comfy looking chairs with her plush animals about. As the three walk closer to the desk, Mabel shows herself by rotating the cushion chair, scooting it further up to address her brother and friends, "Hello my good employees!"
Soos brightens in expression, remarking her suit, "Wow, you look business ready, Mabel. Love the rhinestone question mark."
"And are those shoulder pads?" Dipper points out to his sister.
"Ahaaaah!" Mabel moves about her shoulders in a silly manner before saying, "Just one of the many manager tricks Aunt Shannon told me about while she helped me with my outfit. She has some great business sense as her fashion sense," she takes a sip out of her "2# Boss" coffee mug, making her brother question again.
"Why does your mug say number two?"
Mabel takes out a hand mirror, "Because the real number one…" she shows them their reflections as she whispers, "is you."
This gesture makes Dipper, Wendy and Soos smile, making them feel good about themselves as Soos and Wendy high-five each other in glee.
Mabel continues as she gets up from her seat, "Walk with me," she leads them to the chalkboard as she talks, "With me as boss, you're going to notice a few changes around here. My job is to help you be your best… S.E.L.V.E.S. Satisfied. Everyday. Loving life. Very Much. Everyday. Satisfied," Mabel explains, liking how they're paying attention to her, remarking, "Great listening ears so far." Mabel gives each of them a "thumbs up" sticker and instructs Waddles sitting in his small desk, "Waddles hold my calls," the pig just mouthing the green phone. Afterwards, Mabel leads her brother, Soos and Wendy to the gift shop where the girl sits the opposite way of the chair to face them, "Alright people now work with me. Wendy, how can I make your workspace more "Wendy friendly?""
Wendy thinks what she desires, telling Mabel in hopes she'll get more excuses to not do her job, "Hmm… well Stan and Carla never lets me hang out with friends at work."
Mabel grins to the teen, believing it to be a good idea, "Stan and Carla ain't here, sister! Door's open!"
Wendy gives Mabel a double thumbs up, liking her new boss already, "Sweet!"
Mabel takes out a large question mark costume for Soos, "And Soos, I believe this is yours."
Soos became elated and excited to see what Mabel got him, "Questiony the question mark?" he accepts the costume and expresses, "I wish this was an exclamation point to show how excited I am."
"And as for you, Dipper," Mabel holds up the wolf costume, making her brother cringe before seeing what his sister does to it by putting through the shredder to destroy it to his relief, "Die, wolf costume! Die!" after the act was said and done, she commands her brother, "I want you to head into those woods and don't come back until you found an amazing attraction!"
Dipper beams in excitement, "Finally, time to show Stan how a real mystery hunter does it!" The boy runs over to the side of the room to pick up the large, spiked flail that was a bit too heavy for Dipper to fully control, but the boy manages decent enough as he opens the window to leave from, "Dipper out!" The weight of the flail ball causes Dipper to fall outside, the practically dragging the flail, heading out to the dark side of the forest where he plans to set tiger traps to catch what monster he could use.
"Okay, guys, it's time to prove that nice bosses finish first!" Mabel proclaims, holding up the countdown time to which she only has forty-eight hours to make money," In the next forty-eight hours, we're gonna fill up this jar with six-hundred billion dollars!" Mabel exaggerates, marking the red line on the jar as high-fives Soos, hoping to make more than enough money to impress Stan.
Wendy, however, reasonably has her doubts of that amount with inquiring, "Wait… do you know how money works?"
Apparently, Mabel doesn't know much as she says, "Of course! Waddles run down to the shop and grab me a latte," she orders her pet pig, though Waddles ends up eating the dollar bill. Mabel simply laughs as she gives him another dollar for him to eat, "He's a hungry little guy."
On the set of Cash Wheel…
Stan reluctantly waits in line for the auditions to participate in Cash Wheel, him becoming impatient as it seems the line hasn't moving as fast as he would like, "This line is taking forever."
Carla goes up to Stan, keeping him company, "It does seem that way, dear, all these people…"
Stan then comes up with a idea that he's sure would work, "Time to use my old man powers!" he winks to his wife who gets the gist.
Stan clutches his chest, laying himself on the ground to yell, "Aaahhh! I'm having a heart-attack!"
People around him gasp in shock, watching as Stan makes it look quite convincing, Carla emphasizes, "Someone please help my husband!"
"And the only cure… is to be a contestant on Cash Wheel! Oh no, someone give me a part! I'm old!" Stan lies flat on his back, holding Carla's hand as she kneels down to his level.
The young man assistant from earlier asks his boss, "Should we escort him and his wife off the lot?"
The older blond hair man voices, "That man is a self-centered attention hog with no regard for human decency," he then smiles, "Get him on TV!"
Carla hears what the man says, whispering to her husband, "It worked!"
Stan grins, rising up to say, "I am cured of my affliction!" causing the concern people to cheer for him.
Ford nearby calls the family on the phone, telling them, "Stan got the part. Be sure to tell everyone else to watch Cash Wheel soon."
On the other line, Shauna expresses, "Sounds great, Dad! We'll be watching."
Adeline takes up the phone and asks, "How's Mabel been running the Shack? Hopefully nothing broken or missing."
"Oh nothing like that. Shannon and Jessie gave Mabel some manager advice from what they told me…" Shauna then sighs, having now realized that it may not have been a good idea, knowing those two, "I'll have Tanya and the rest of their cousins to check up on her here in a bit."
"Alright, honey, we'll be in touch if there's anything wrong," Adeline says, really hoping nothing will go wrong with family keeping Mabel in check, knowing how eccentric the little girl can be.
"Will do, mom. Love you. Tell Dad that too," Shauna tells, planning to make a few calls and mumbling in the background.
"Love you too, Shauna," Adeline parts when she hangs up the phone, looking to Ford with a hint of worry in her eyes, "I have faith that they'll be alright, but at the same time, anything can go wrong."
Meanwhile at the Mystery Shack…
Mabel goes through a montage of improving the office space even more, well improved as in the girl believing to be improvements to be more suitable to her than for anyone else. She didn't fully understand the responsibility that came with the role from being a boss of a whole establishment. Proof of it as soon as she was done concluding a tour for the evening, thanking the patrons as they put money in her glass jar, waving goodbye to the customers as they head for the gift shop, "Thank you! See you soon! Tell 'em Mabel sent you!" Mabel smiles to her progress of the money being earned.
Dipper shows up to her, dragging huge sack containing a large creature he managed to capture. The creature itself, however, moved about the sack in distress, audible growls could be heard. Dipper wasn't aware as he gets Mabel's attention, "Mabel! I captured something! This is going to blow those tourists away! Haha!" The creature grabs Dipper's arm, to which the boy responds with screaming and punching it to let go of him.
Soon enough, Cormac, his triplet sisters arrive to see how their cousins were doing. Cormac taking notice of the large moving sack as he says in concern, "So what's going to blow the tourists away?"
The twins turn to face the older cousins when Dipper excitedly tells him, "I caught a creature in the dark part of the forest to use as-" he was cut off as they say something he didn't expect to hear.
"Wait, what?!" The four exclaim, them knowing the dangerous creatures that lurk in the forest.
"Dipper you can't just take something as huge as that thing from the forest. I think it's, I don't know, inhumane," Anais tells Dipper, getting an idea of what kind of creature he may have captured.
"It's only for today and I'll feed it and clean its cage I'm gonna put it in," Dipper tries to assure, but they weren't entirely convinced at all.
"What kind of creature did you take anyways? Because it looks like it can easily disembowel someone if they get too close to it," Arya crosses her arms. Aria putting her sense into the conversation.
"I'd say release the thing back into the forest where it belongs. Plus, the people love the fake attractions Gramps and Granny make. Sometimes real things are the worse."
Mabel adds her say to assert her authority, "Cousins, please give my bro here a chance. He's been a marvelous employee. I have faith he has brought something truly amazing here," she pats Cormac on the arm," As Boss, I'll make sure things go smoothly," she then turns to notice Soos hiding behind a porta potty nearby, gasping, "Who's that? Is it Questiony the question mark?"
Soos peeks from behind the porta potty, clearly looking uncomfortable and hesitant to go through with what he, at first, wanted to do, "Um… I'm starting to have second thoughts about this, Mabel. I keep forgetting my lines and this costume is more revealing than I expected." He comes out to reveal him wearing the question mark costume, although the thing being quite small and the rest of his body lacking clothes but in his underwear and socks. Cormac held back a laugh as the triplets were astonished by what Soos' lack of wear from his usual get up.
Mabel didn't take the cues and just encourages her friend, "Soos, don't give up! Anything is possible when you-"
Cormac manages to hold back his laughter and adds his say about his friend, "Soos why don't you go back inside and change what you normally wear. We can clearly see how you're feeling about this, buddy."
Soos glances to Mabel, then back to Cormac, nodding as he takes off the costume, "Thanks dude. Sorry, Mabel, this isn't what I expected it to be." Soos heads inside the Shack to change back into his usual look. Mabel wasn't pleased when she gives a glare to her cousins, feeling they're usurping her role as a boss.
"Well… I'm gonna go see how Wendy's doing. Because SOME people don't respect MY decisions as boss!" Mabel stomps towards the gift shop. Aria feeling bad about having made her cousin mad at them.
"Ah man, didn't mean to make her mad," Aria frowns, but Cormac reasons.
"It's for the greater good, Aria, whether Mabel likes it or not, she doesn't have control over people's choices or emotions."
Mabel cools down enough and goes to see Wendy, "How's my favorite Wendy?" To her dismay, a soda can was thrown in her direction as Wendy's friends were causing a mess in the gift shop, all of them laughing away and being oblivious to the chaos they're causing. Lee and Nate kicking around a shrunken head like a small sack of beads. Junior, Ty and Tanya coming inside to be shocked by what's going on. Ty's urge to clean kicks in as he begins to pick up the mess around him. Tanya displaying her parental authority by yelling at the teens.
"Ya'll knock it off here and pick this shit up! Now!" Tanya crosses her arms and gives the teens a stern look as Nate talks back.
"Who are you, our mom?" Nate will come to regret those choice of words as Tanya grabs him by the collar of his shirt, the teen beginning to be filled with fear as he shakes. Her eyes glowing a fiery, demonic red as she stares him down and orders in a deeper, distorted voice.
"You and your friends are going to leave this place cleaner than when you arrived… Do I make myself clear?" Tanya borderline threatens, the teen falling silent as were the others, even Wendy felt afraid of her. Never in her young life had Wendy ever seen Tanya get the way she did to anyone. Nate and the rest of the teens obediently heed Tanya as they help Ty and Junior pick up what they left on the floor, putting it all in the trash and heading out the door. Tanya grinning to her success, saying, "That went well.
"Whoa…" Mabel goes up to Wendy and tries to give the shaken teen assurance, "I'm so sorry for how my cousin acted. Must be one of those "pregnancy mood swings" I've heard about. I'm sure she didn't mean to threaten your friends. In fact, take the… rest of the day off?"
Wendy likes the sound of that as she asks, "With full pay?"
"Of course!" Mabel laughs nervously.
Wendy gives Mabel two thumbs up and heads out the door to enjoy the rest of her day.
Mabel sighs in relief, turning to Tanya, Junior and Ty, "Guys I'm trying to run a business here. Wendy was fine until you scared her and her friends off."
"Mabel, they were wrecking the place. Us teens can be… destructive in small spaces," Junior tells Mabel, giving her a bit of reality check, "There's a time and place for everything, Mabel, messin' around isn't one of them while doing a job. If Nate kicked that shrunken head thing in a different direction, it could have hurt someone."
"Sure a little fun, here and there, but what happened was getting out of hand," Ty adds, pointing to all the trash they had to clean up in the bin.
"I mean I had to do something," Tanya shrugs with a frown, seeing Mabel become upset. The young girl running to her office on the verge of tears, slamming and locking it shut.
Of course, Tanya and the rest of the cousins become saddened for the girl, hoping she'll realize what she's doing has consequences that affect everyone and everything.
Quincy then asking aloud, "Wonder how Grunkle Stan and them are doing?"
At the Pines-Grayson residence...
James, Tara, Jessie, Lillian, Shannon, Shauna and Marcus from within the Pines-Grayson residence to watch the episode of Cash Wheel to see Stanley on TV. James sitting next to his wife on the couch with a plastic bucket of popcorn, drinks, candy that Lillian brought over to share, and extra cushions where Shauna and Marcus cuddle up next to each other.
"I should text one of them to see how they're doing over there," Shauna texts to Tanya to ask how things are going. It wasn't long before Tanya replies with an update of all that happened, making Shauna increasingly worried for Mabel and Dipper. She knew Mabel could possibly not have handled things well. Marcus looks over his wife's shoulder to read the text, frowning when he too learns of what's happening at the Shack. Shauna texts back to inform Tanya to try to keep things under control long enough until they'll be over soon to take care of things.
The host, Rich, turns to face the camera like he usually does with his bright, charismatic smile, "Ladies and gentlemen! Welcome to Cash Wheel!" the live audience cheers, hearing Adeline and Carla being the most vocal in the stands, annoying the other people around them, "Now let's meet those contestants," the man continues. There were two other contestants, including Stan at the podium. Jessie clapping loudly as James shushes to listen.
One of the contestants introduces themselves, "I'm Doug from Fairfield, California!"
The second female contestant introduces herself, showing a bright smile, "I'm Donna from-"
Stan cuts her off rudely to introduce himself, being too eager to be aware of what he's doing, "I'm Stanley! Stanley Pines!" he goes back to his place and wonders, "Did… Did we already do me? I'm Stanley from Gravity Falls, Oregon! Hi family back at home!" Ford and Adeline face-palm, groaning.
Carla telling Stan, not aware she's supposed to be silent, "You're doing amazing, honey!"
Jessie waving back at the TV, Lillian being amused by her wife showing much support to her dad.
Back at home, James too face-palms as did Tara, Shauna, Lillian and Marcus, seeing how he may just get kicked off the show.
Rich does his best to keep his smile, his eyes showing otherwise, "Okay… it's going to be a long night," he hears the audience laugh some as he continues on with the show, "It's time to solve-" He's interrupted by Stan's hearty laughter but tries to keep going nonetheless, "It's time for that puzzle. Carla."
The woman with a pink sparkly dress, pink heels and hoop earrings asks her host, "Yes, Rich?"
Again, Stan becomes disruptive on the show, guessing a letter when it's not his turn, "Are there any 'S'? And that's my darling wife's name too!"
Carla among the audience giggles for the acknowledgement.
"Stanley, calm down and let the man do his job!" Ford calls out to his twin brother, even getting up from his seat as Adeline pulls her husband down to remain seated.
"Actually it's not your turn yet," Rich calmly tells Stan, but the prompt of the words light up from Stan's guess.
"I'm ready to solve!" Stan calls out in excitement.
Rich urges the contestant, "No the game hasn't started…"
"Is it, "Shut your Yaps?" Stan guess, to which he was correct that causes the rest of the letters to form the exact phrase, getting a round of applause from the audience, especially Ford, Adeline and Carla. Ford having too figured the algorithm of the game to know the answer. Stan earns a thousand dollars for the answer.
"Very nice, I couldn't have guessed that lettering," Tara remarks, eating a bit of popcorn, "He knows this game well, huh?"
James nods to his wife, "Oh yeah, I often saw him watching these type of game shows, and ends up guessing right for the most part. The trick being by figuring out the-"
Jessie shushes her brother, focusing on the tv and flicking a piece of popcorn at her twin brother, to which James catches with his mouth.
Back at home, Jessie and the other adult family members cheer for Stan.
Rich admits Stan's tenacious attitude as he remarks, "Well played."
Stan then spins the wheel, crossing his fingers in hopes of landing on the spot he wants, "Cash shower! Cash shower! Cash shower!" To his glee, it lands on the spot he wanted it to go.
"Cash shower!" Rich announces as the crowd cheers for Stan as did his family back at home.
"Yes!" Stan exclaims in his success, although doing something rather unexpected as he begins to take off each article of his clothing.
Carla from the audience couldn't help to blush while Adeline covers her eyes, hoping none of the kids are watching, mumbling, "Oh geez…"
Back at home, Marcus covers his eyes with a cushion pillow as did Lillian and Tara did the same, not wanting to understandably see their in-law getting naked on screen.
"Ah Dad…" James and Jessie groans in unison from disgust, compelled to change the channel for the moment but didn't as he wanted to see how the show will handle it.
"I really hope none of the kids are watching this part," Marcus comments, texting Tanya about any of them watching Cash Wheel that very moment. He gets a text back as he sighs in relief that none of them are; though in fact trying to get Mabel to calm down.
"Stanley, put your damn clothes back on! Kids are possibly watching!" Ford urges his twin brother, feeling totally embarrassed.
"Ford watch your damn-" Adeline catches herself, but the damage was done as everyone heard her and her husband swear, letting out an, "Oh no…"
"Go Mom!" Shannon cheers, "Like Mom, holy hell I haven't heard her swear in months. This resets her record. Hehe."
"I really, really hope Quincy isn't watching this…" Shauna sighs, covering her face for but a moment from watching the train wreck the way Cash Wheel is going.
Stanley having heard his brother, puts his clothes back on, looking rather embarrassed as Rich urges the camera people, "I think it's time we go to commercial!"
Later at the Mystery Shack…
Inside the emporium of the fake attractions, a young couple were looking at a few of the oddities when their attentions were changed to face Mason as he announces besides the tarped cage, "Ladies and gentlemen! My name is Honest Dipper, and unlike my cheating uncle, I have something that isn't a hoax!" he continues as he speak dramatically, "It nearly killed me getting him into that cage. Behold! Part gremlin, part goblin. The Gremloblin!"
He pulls down the tarp to reveal the large, intimidating creature depicted in the journal. His dark green skin riddled with fungi and black patches of hair on his back and arms. Long protruding fangs from his lower jaw and two rows of smaller, but still as sharp teeth. His gaze red, the color of blood with pointy ears, and strands of long hairs from his skin to complete the appearance. The Gremloblin shakes the steel bars to be let out, growling and coughing up a skeletal human-like arm with a golden ring still attached to it, covered in the monster spit. To Dipper's disappointment, the tourists weren't convinced that the Gremloblin was real, but fake. How dumb can the tourists be?
"Well that's fun!" the man was amazed, but his wife wasn't.
"It's fake, honey, you can see the strings."
"What? Those aren't strings, that's body hair!" Dipper tries to explain, but the couple turn their attention to another fake attraction the Six Pack O' Lope.
"Look at this, dear. The Six Pack O' Lope!" Something the wife was more interested in as the man laughs in amusement.
"Wordplay!" he takes a picture as Dipper grabs both of their hands, about to lead the couple closer to Gremloblin until…
Cormac gasps at what Dipper caught inside the cage, going up to him before something were to go wrong, "Mason stop!"
Dipper turns around and says, "What, Cory. I was just gonna prove them that this creature is real. You know it's real right?"
Cory barks at Dipper, being clearly upset that Dipper brought a seriously dangerous creature to the Shack, "Of course I do! That creature's gaze can make a person experience their worst nightmares. Paralyzing them in sheer fear."
The couple look at each other, now not enjoying themselves as the wife says, "I think we're gonna head out to the gift shop for something more… interesting." The couple leaves as Mason gets angry with Cormac over the lost opportunity.
"What the heck, man? I had it all under control," Dipper crosses his arms.
Cormac argues back, "Tell me, Dipper, what would have happened if those people were to look into that creature's eyes? Would they be 'wowed' then? Or would they be lying on the floor and driven insane?"
Dipper frowns, not having thought of that scenario happening if his older cousin hadn't stepped in to stop him. He almost screwed up again. The boy looks towards the angry creature, feeling awful about having used a being for something he didn't want to be a part of.
"You're right, Cory. How do you know what the Gremloblin can do?" Dipper asks of his cousin, with the addition of saying, "I'm sorry I argued with you. I just wanted to show people the real, amazing things that come from nowhere else but Gravity Falls, not fake ones."
Cormac kneels down to Dipper, telling the boy what he needs to know, "I know a lot of things about the town I grew up in. Some more unpleasant than others like this Gremloblin here. I think we should repay this guy by releasing him back into the-"
The Gremloblin unlocks the cage door with the key Mabel left inside for him, bursting out with a loud roar towards Dipper and Cormac in anger. Cormac thinking quickly of what to do as he pushes Dipper further away from him, yelling, "Dipper, go get help! I'll handle this guy!"
Mason was scared, though he has seen Cormac fight Rumble in the past, he was still concern and cares for his older cousin, "But Cory I can't leave-"
"I said now!" Cormac yells as he lunges towards the Gremloblin to tackle the beast, beginning the fight as the creature breaks the attractions around him in the skirmish.
Dipper runs to the gift shop where Junior, Ty, Tanya and the triplets were managing everything like clockwork. Junior ringing up customers, Ty making sure things were put back and cleaned off the floor. Tanya keeping control of rowdy kids, and the triplets and Quincy nowhere to be seen. Mabel having changed out of her business casual attire to wear one of her sweaters and skirts and looking rather better than before when Tanya and the cousins managed to get her back to a better mood. Dipper runs up to Mabel as she expresses cheerfully, "Hey, Dipper! Looks like my managing skills and teamwork are-"
Dipper interjects her thoughts to deliver urgent news, "Cory's in trouble and the Gremloblin escaped somehow!"
"What?" Mabel utters right before the Gremloblin and Cormac burst through the wall of the gift shop from the living room. Cormac covered in ripped up clothing, bleeding cuts and bruises as him and the Gremloblin continue their physical confrontation, causing all the tourists inside to run out the door in terror screaming.
Dipper and Mabel are taken to get behind the counter by Tanya as Junior and Ty try to help out Cormac with the monster. The boys punch and kicked the monster at different sides, but the beast side swipes at the teens, forcing them back hard against the wall, knocking them right out as Cormac continues to hold on to the beast. Junior and Ty sprawled out against some fallen, broken products, looking to have been a painful impact.
"How the hell did that beast get here?" Tanya raises a brow, not having seen Dipper bring in the massive monster to the museum of fake attractions earlier.
"Me…" Dipper admits, but wondering, "How did he get out of his locked cage?" he looks at Mabel.
Mabel frowns in admitting herself, "Weeeeeelllllll… I left a key inside his cage in case he needed a break…"
"You gave him a break?!" Dipper and Tanya asked in unison.
Mabel regretting her choices she made as she tells, "I had to give him a break; he's an employee! Sort of..."
"We've got to help Cory, Ty and Junior round him up. Where's Soos?"
"He was stressed out so I told him to take a nature walk with the triplets and Quincy," Mabel frowns as she explains.
Soos walks happily with Quincy riding on his back and the triplets enjoying the stroll, unaware of what's going on back at the Mystery Shack. The young man expressing, "So happy I took this walk with you guys!"
Tanya pulls Mabel and Dipper's hand to lead them right out the door, "I'm gonna call the family for help." She dials one of the numbers and gets an answer, "Mom there's a situation at the Mystery Shack, we need help as quickly as you can get here. Gremloblin-" she hears the phone hang up, taking as a sign the adults will be on their way.
Dipper reads from the journal as he explains the options of getting rid of the Gremloblin, "Got it! When fighting a Gremloblin, use water…" before he was finished reading aloud, Tanya and Mabel threw a glass of water at the beast, biding Cormac time to take a breather and get the unconscious Ty and Junior out of the gift shop. Cormac looking rough from the fighting, but otherwise alive and still standing to keep going. Dipper eyes widen seeing the act Mabel and Tanya did as he finishes the sentence, "only as a last resort as water will make him much, much scarier!" he screams, "Who writes sentences like that?!"
The Gremloblin did indeed become scarier as he grew not only larger, but now long spikes trail down his spine, eyebrows and head as he roars loudly. The beast grabbing up Mabel in his hand, staring down with his nightmare gaze directly at her eyes as Mabel starts living her nightmares until.
"Hey, ugly!" Tanya bravely stands up to the beast, the two engaging in an epic stare down. Tanya knows she's putting not only her own life in danger, but her unborn child's as well, but she had a gut feeling to do perform what she's doing. The Gremloblin letting go Mabel as he shakes his head when he sees his own worst fears when Tanya's eyes acted as mirrors into his mind. Tanya shaking her head as she did struggle to keep the stare going as long as she did, but relieved when the creature backs down.
"Real cool..." before Dipper could finish, he hears the sounds of cars on the horizon, seeing his family members cars speeding towards them.
As if on cue, all of the adults come onto the property from out of their cars. James holding a hand mirror and a thick long rope as he takes in the scene, going up to Dipper and the rest of them, "Where's the Gremloblin?"
Dipper points to the door, "Inside, Uncle James. Mabel and Tanya went in and-"
The Gremloblin bursts right outside the gift shop, growing out wings as he flies off, in horror of what he saw from Tanya's stare, back to where he came from, knocking part of the totem pole that lands on Marcus' and Shauna's car. Thankfully, no one being inside the vehicle.
"Oh boy… I'm gonna have to really fix it. Awesome!" Marcus grins as he could have something to work on.
Soos, along with Quincy and the triplets come back, only to find things have gone crazier since their absence.
"Ah dude… someone had a party without us," Soos comments as they all approach. Shauna plucking off Quincy from Soos' back to hug him close.
"I'm so glad you're alright!" Shauna was worried for her only child.
Meanwhile, Jessie and Lillian tend to their teen sons, who just came back around to wake up.
"What on Earth happened?" Lillian questions, seeing the damage caused by the monster, "How did a creature like that come around here?"
Junior and Ty get up to stretch, seeming as if they weren't that hurt at all from the Gremloblin's swing. The cracking of bones were slightly audible as any bone broken in their bodies realigned and fixed themselves in place. Must have been their demon healing factor kicking in, Dipper thinks for a moment as he hadn't gotten the chance to ask them any of the questions.
Shannon goes to kept up on Tanya, the young woman assuring, "I'm alright. The guy gave me a headache, but otherwise I'm cool. Almost filled me with fear for that moment."
Tara goes inside the Shack to find the medical kit they kept, returning to tend to her son, Cormac, as he had gotten the worst of it from the fighting, "Yes… how did this all happen?" she wonders. Cormac not saying a thing as the triplets go up to him in concern.
Dipper and Mabel shuffling their feet to explain everything as they all head back inside.
Later after the twins explained everything...
James sighs, pinching his nose as he finished listening to Dipper and Mabel's story, piecing everything together as he says, "Well, kids, I think you both need a break for tonight while we all pitch in to repair all this. Hate for my parents and uncle and aunt to see their home a wreck." He didn't sound angry, but rather happy that they're both okay. Although, he worries for his son who got hurt in the process, glancing over to see Cormac having his wounds treated by Tara and Lillian.
Dipper and Mabel sadly nod, Mabel hugging her uncle as she felt the most responsible for everything that happened, "I'm so sorry, Uncle James. Again, I didn't mean for all of this to happen. I shouldn't have made that dumb bet with Grunkle Stan…"
James hugs her back, "It'll be alright. At least you both learned some valuable lessons and are both alive. We adults should have guided you more."
"I didn't think I would need much help, until I let Wendy get off for the whole day and thankfully our cousins were there to help… Even if I didn't call them over," Mabel smiles some, then hearing Shauna speak as she cleans up debris.
"I had all your cousins go check up on you. Mom and I felt you would need them when we talked," Shauna kneels down to her level as she sees Mabel grow saddened, "Not that we didn't have faith in you, it just we know that you're a young girl who hasn't had that kind of responsibility before until recently. My sister and I went through mistakes while running the Shack as did James and Jessie."
Shannon comes in to say with a chuckle, "I mean, Junior almost got raised by another family, as a baby, because I walked away for a few minutes while he held a price sticker on him. Boy did we get into trouble with that."
Junior was taken by surprise, never having known that story from their aunts as he gives a look at the twin women while on the couch.
"Jessie, Charlie and I… almost set the whole Shack on fire from a mishap with one of the attractions involving a fire-breathing dragon robot," James admits with a cough, not having been too proud of that incident in the past, but nonetheless learned from it, "Yeah… not the proudest thing we did and boy were our parents and aunt and uncle angry, but were glad we were all alive."
Dipper looks over to Cormac who lies on the couch, resting as he watches TV with his sisters and cousins, "Is Cory gonna be okay? I feel real awful that he got hurt like he did. He tried to warn me and everything… I messed up a lot today."
Cormac bluntly puts, "You sure did screw up, Dipper, but at least you learned something, right? I'll be alright for the most part. Nothing too serious to worry about. Two fights again strong beings… boy this has been an interesting vacation so far."
Dipper smiles over to Cormac in relief, adding to what he mentioned earlier, "And you and Grauntie Carla were right, those fake attractions mean more than what the real thing could appeal to. They worked together making those things every week for people to see and make positive memories to take with them."
Mabel nods, expressing what she's learned herself, "I too learned that Stan's methods in how he managed things was more sound than what I thought. I was being too nice where I let people walk over me, or upset when they were only trying to voice their concerns to me, their boss. Sorry for being a big dummy, cousins. You all know Stan best in how he and Carla run things."
The cousins sincerely smile over to her with Aria saying, "Ah thanks, Mabel. We all have our big dummy moments too."
"Let's all see how Stan and them are doing," Lillian changes the channel to see on Cash Wheel that Stan gaining a great lead in the game with a hundred-thousand dollars so far as they listen to Rich on the TV say as everyone gathers on the couch.
"Ladies and Gentlemen! Stanley Pines is poised to become grand champion. Anything to say for your friends and family out there?" Rich asks of Stan who's grinning ear to ear.
"See you tomorrow, Mabel!" he holds up the white "Loser" shirt as he laughs, then adding, "Oh and see you all tomorrow, family! Love you all!"
Mabel sighs, hoping she made enough to beat Stan and to pay for all the damages to the Shack.
Marcus comes back to the living room, smelling like oil and sweat, "I fixed up the car enough for it to function until I do some more work. What all did I miss?"
"A little bit, Marcus, a little bit," Shauna tells him.
The next day...
By the time morning came, the damages to the Shack have been repaired and assembled as if the chaos never happened for the most part. Jessie and the rest of the family having worked much through the afternoon to late night to get everything they need and more done. However, the costs took a toll on the cash Mabel aimed to earn from the three days set upon her.
Mabel checks the hours remaining on the timer. Just a mere seven to get enough to earn some profits, "Dipper it's the third day! We've only got seven hours to earn back our profits from all those repairs yesterday, or I've gotta wear that loser shirt for the rest of the summer."
Just then, Wendy and Soos come in for work, the teen greeting with a smile, "Hey guys! Heard about the crazy things that went down here from Junior."
Mabel was glad to see the two coming in as they could be of help, "Wendy! Soos! Am I glad to see you! We've got a lot of work to do, but if we hurry, we can still beat Stan."
Hearing about all the work she has to do, Wendy considers backing down as she makes an excuse as she rubs her head, "Ah yeah… I got a little headache, so maybe like, I should not work today."
Mabel grows angry from the response, seeing through the teens tactic to get out of working when she needed them.
Soos adds fuel to the raging fire with a frown to Mabel as he gives his excuse, "And actually yesterday, I kinda want to go hangout with the wolves the triplets showed me and Quincy. I think they want to raise me as one of their own, so I ought to check back with them."
"But…" Mabel holds up her pen, boiling anger swelling up inside her to a point where she breaks her pen and screams to the heavens, "ENOUGH!" This outburst causes them to gasp as Mabel gives her piece of her mind to her employees, "I've had it! My family and I fought a monster, yesterday to save this business, and this is how you repay me? I'm gonna get an ulcer from your lollygagging!" she raises an angry fist to the two, like how Stan would address his employees.
"Lollygagging?" Wendy questions.
"Ulcer? You're acting… different," Soos remarks.
"You shut your yaps!" Mabel barks, causing the two to gasp as she sounds like Stan, "My family had to do everyone's jobs, including me, while you bums have been bleeding me dry! Now quit loafing and get to work!"
Wendy quickly replies to her, recognizing her authority, "Yes, Mabel…"
"That's yes, Boss!" Mabel slams her fist on the counter, causing the hanging fez hat to fall right on her head perfectly. She then looks at the mirror, seeing what she had to become, remembering what she talked about with her family as she directs back to the employees and her brother, "We've got seven hours to turn this around. Let's go, people! Dipper, call in our cousins, we're gonna need their help too."
Meanwhile on Cash Wheel…
Stan spins the spinner, smiling as he sees it land on Cash Flood, as Rich announces, "You've landed on Cash Flood!"
Like the namesake, a whole wave of cash covers Stan from head to toe as the crowd cheers, sticking his head out of the pile of money to announce, "I'm giving none of this to charity!" He is now at three-hundred thousand dollars. Ford, Adeline and Carla both hope Stan would go easy on Mabel, knowing the amount of money being earned is more than what the Shack earns in a year at least.
"And now you can go home a thousandaire, or you could risk everything to double your money with a bonus word!" Rich explains as the game sirens go off.
From home, Jessie shouts, "Double it, Daddy! Double it!"
"Just take all the money and head out!" Marcus shouts with Jessie.
Lillian covers her ears as did Flannel, along with the others, as she calmly says, "Honey, your shouts are reaching new decibels."
"Oh, sorry, licorice," Jessie lowers her voice as the rest try to watch the game.
In the crowds, Carla rises from her seat to encourage her husband, "Do it, Stan!"
"Rich, I'm a simple man. So I'm gonna take my winnings, pack my bags and…" as Stan turns around, he faces right back with a determined grin and says, "Bet them all on the bonus word!"
The whole crowd cheers wildly as did Carla and Adeline, Ford hoping Stan will guess the word right so they can all go home already.
At the Mystery Shack…
Mabel takes full control of situation with ordering Dipper, "Dipper, we got tourists at nine o'clock! Are those fake attractions ready?"
Dipper confidently grins as he gives her a thumbs up, "They sure are, Mabel!" He heads inside, putting on his black suit with a fake eye-patch over his eye, slicking back his hair before guiding the tourists inside the hall of oddities, "Ladies and Gentle-tourists! This shack is filled with wonders never before seen by human eyes!" Dipper goes up to one such living attraction, "Behold! The horrible, giant Question Baby!"
It was only Soos dressed back up in the question mark costume as he moves about in his small space, asking, "Am I a man? Am I a baby? These are legitimate questions." This gets a good reaction from the tourists as they gasp in shock.
Dipper then holds up a camera, offering, "Who wants to their picture taken for a buck?" seeing the current price, he raises it by ten, then at a hundred dollars, "Ten bucks? A hundred bucks?"
The tourists grab hand full of dollars from their pockets, cheering to throw their money at him to get a picture or more, pleasing Dipper from the results by the time they all buy items from the gift shop as well. Dipper waving goodbye as he recites the catchphrase Stan and Carla say often, "We put the "Fun" in "no refund!"" Dipper lifting up the eye patch with a wide grin, heading back inside to ask Mabel, "How did we do?"
"We filled the whole jar!" Mabel informs, her and the others cheering in glee.
Not a moment later, Stan, Carla, Ford and Adeline return back, all of them heading inside the gift shop as Stan grins over to them, "Tick Tock! Time's up, kid!"
Mabel gasps in shock, hoping she made enough to beat him, "Oh no!"
Carla coos over how nice Dipper's dressing, "Why look at you, Dipper! You look so handsome in that suit!" Dipper smiles a little from the compliment.
Ford nods as him and Adeline look around to make sure everything's still in place since they left. The two not having heard of the incident from any of the other adult Pines - which may be best not to share for the sake of their health.
Mabel lowers her head and asks, "How much did you beat us by?"
Stan proudly puts his hands on his hips and announces, "I won three-hundred thousand dollars!" The twins gasp before Stan finishes with a frown, "And then… I lost it all because I didn't think it was the word "please.""
"I was mouthing him the word and everything," Carla sighs, she too a bit disappointed from losing all that money.
"I really thought you were saying "pickle", honey. I had a… brain fart or somethin'," Stan admits, Carla raising a brow as did Ford and Adeline.
"It was so easy…" Ford mumbles under his breath.
Dipper smiles to Mabel as he says, "Then that means… Mabel you won!" They all cheer as Mabel beams from the moment.
Stan sighs, admitting his defeat as she says, "Well according to our bet, I guess that Mabel's the new… boss?" He doesn't expect, Mabel, Soos, Wendy and Dipper going up to him to plead him not to make Mabel the new boss of the Shack, making Stan confused to why they're begging.
Mabel admits as she takes off the fez hat, "Grunkle Stan, Grauntie Carla, I had no idea how hard it was being boss. This place is cookoo bananas until I started barking orders at people like you and Grauntie. Also, haven't you learned from the other times not to let twelve-year olds run a place like this?"
Stan blatantly admits as he puts on his fez hat, "Nope! Well I gotta admit," he gives Dipper and Mabel a big hug before finishing, "It's kinda nice to be back, you know." He smiles at the two before letting go so the twin get hugs from Carla, Ford and Adeline. Stan then addresses Soos and Wendy, "And Soos. Wendy… get to work!" he sternly orders, clearing his throat to add, "Please… ugh, still hurts."
Dipper then brings up, "Mabel, didn't your agreement say something about Stan having to do some kind of apology dance if he lost?"
Stan wanting to back out of that part tries to deny the claim, "No… no we didn't."
Ford chuckles, bringing up, "Oh yeah, I do remember Carla saying that part of the bargain."
"I second that," Adeline adds with a sly grin.
Stan mumbles to his twin brother, though not out of malice, "Traitors…"
Mabel smiles as she too remembers, "Yeah, I think I have it in my notes here."
Wendy overhears and says, "I'll get the camera and call over Junior and the rest of your family!"
"Alright, let me just…" Stan storms off outside the gift shop, attempting to flee from perform the humiliating part of the deal.
"Grunkle Stan!" Mabel calls out to him as Carla goes after him.
Soon after, Stan gets in front of the camera in a glittery, orange gold outfit in slippers, being recorded. Stan expresses his discontent, "Look I'm not gonna…"
"Do it!" Mabel orders. All the while, the rest of the family snicker and laugh in the background. Some recording the whole thing on their phones.
Stan gruffly sighs, doing a half-baked attempt at dancing as he sings, "~ I'm Stan and I was wrong, I doing the Stan-wrong song. ~ I shouldn't have taken that chance, now here's my remorseful dance.~"
"Do the kicks!" Mabel again orders her great-uncle. The old man making a small kicks in the air as Mabel instructs, "Jazzier!"
Stan does no such thing as he kept up the kicks, though his fezs hat falling off and getting taken by Gompers who enters the scene. Stan goes after Gompers to get his hat back as the rest of the family laughs.
A/N: Another chapter written by Vulpixen. I wanted to divert from the norm in each chapter so it would feel more of an AU than just copying the episode's word for word and scenes. I try to. Join us next time when Mabel and Dipper are introduced to Uncle Charlie in Chapter 26: Uncle Charlie.