Disclaimer: I don't own Gravity Falls

Author's Note: In this chapter, the Pines family gain a new, unlikely pet. Meanwhile, Ford and Adeline, along with their children try to come up with a plan to handle the dinosaurs trapped in sap here in Chapter 36: Jurassic Shack!

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!

Earlier that day…

As soon as Ford hangs the phone, Adeline rubs her head by what she heard from Ford about what happened to Quincy and Waddles. At least the pedicure being done for her feet was easing her some. Knowing her husband, brother-in-law and the rest of the family, they'll succeed in getting her only grandchild and Mabel's pet pig home alive. Wendy was greatly enjoying her herself and the rejuvenating treatment she's receiving, not every day she gets to have at least one day to take a lot of stress off her shoulders.

Carla notices something was up, seeing Adeline a bit stressed as she asks while getting a manicure, "Did something happen at home? Are all of them okay?"

"I was about to saaaaayy…" Wendy was lulled by the back massage she's getting from one of the employee's, "Holy crap this is great..."

Adeline didn't want to ruin their time at the spa as she says with a slight frown, "I'll tell you two after this treatment, but from what Ford told me, they're going to handle the situation while we have our day."

Wendy shrugs lightly, "Cool. I'm sure it's nothing too serious to get all worked up about."

Adeline mumbles under her breath, "I wouldn't say that." She switches to a different topic by asking Wendy, "Wendy, how are you liking the bit of spa treatment so far?"

Wendy grins brightly at Adeline and Carla, expressing her delight, "This is bitchin'!" The teen covers her mouth when she swore in front of her bosses, "Oops, sorry, ma'ams."

Carla and Adeline merely giggle with Carla saying to dismiss it, "Oh don't be sorry, sweetie. We'll take it as a yes. You're not at work exactly." the older woman winks, but then adds with a grin, "Actually, swear as much as you like."

Wendy appreciates the older ladies input, continuing with sharing her thoughts to the women she looks up to, "Thanks, Missus Carla. What I want to say is thank you for taking me here. I always passed by this place but never thought to go in - lacking money before. It's… it's helping me take off all the stress I've been feeling for awhile, you know. You to have always helped me." The teen grew sullen when she tells, "Sometimes it's hard living with the rowdy guys that are my dad and brothers. I'm thankful I've gotten some peace with my brothers having found friends to hang out with. I'm glad I can come to you two, and Junior's moms, about girl things."

"Oh no harm done, Wendy." Adeline smiled to her as the female employee gets through with her pedicure, "We want to help guide you through things than just knowing how to run the register at the Mystery Shack."

Sometime later at Natural Resources, Marcus Pines drives over to the shop -and Robbie- after having received Shannon's call, to watch over the store while her and Shauna save Quincy and Waddles with Ford and the others. The man hopes Robbie hadn't done anything to mess up the place in any way that would go against its themes, having been told how the older teen behaves. What Marcus finds wasn't too bad from what he expected, only seeing Robbie figure out the cash register and how to open it to give change to the customer. Robbie's been failing miserably as he forgotten how.

Marcus simply sighs, showing his strong patience as he says, "Hey, Robbie, let me help you out with that." He apologizes to the customers, "Sorry, cut our new employee some slack for today." Marcus opens the register as Robbie steps aside, the teen muttering to himself as the adult rings up each of the customers. It irks the teen he couldn't do a simple thing right, having to be proven wrong on his notion.

As soon as Marcus was done, he looks over the teen. Robbie arranging some of the jewelry together for them all to resemble Wendy's face once brought together. Robbie hasn't gotten over the female teen just yet. Marcus had seen the behavior Robbie's displaying before, knowing some of how to approach it as he gets him to focus.

"Robbie, how about I walk you through with using the cash register, along with you becoming familiar with each product and where they all are."

Robbie shrugs, turning away from what he was doing to give his attention at his semi-boss, "Alright. I tried to watch how Shauna and Shannon did the buttons and stuff but… my mind has been elsewhere."

Marcus smiles to the goth teen a tad in sympathy, saying to advise him, "That's why we keep our minds busy on the task at hand, or else we lose sight on what's more important in that moment in time. Look here, Robbie, see how I'm calculating the purchases? I know it's boring, but it needs to be done."

Robbie nods slowly, watching Marcus type the buttons on the register, making it open to reveal the money inside of it. The teen trying to think of how he can preoccupy himself while getting over Wendy. From what he did, it was going to be some time before the emotional wounds heal. He did see a point to what Marcus said as it wasn't doing him any good to mope while on the job, even if he has to deal with people he may not like; including their complaints and questions he doesn't know the best answer to. Robbie wonders how Shannon and Shauna, as well as Marcus put up with the people they have to cater on an almost daily basis.

Robbie hears the door open with a jiggle of the bell, seeing an old friend of his he hadn't seen in a long while, Cormac Pines. The two going back to their childhood as friends for the longest time, but having grown to finding their own friends that caused the two to not see each other as much, though not minding much in understanding. However, every now and then, they'd find time to hang out and do their own thing: either play music or at the arcade. Although, in recent weeks, they hadn't been able to make much time with all that's occurring and Cormac is peeved with Robbie for what he did.

Cormac makes his way to the register to ask of Marcus and Robbie, "Hey, Uncle Marcus. Robbie. You guys seen Aunt Shannon? I need to speak with her about a ring."

"Shannon is out at the moment with Shauna to save Quincy and Waddles," Marcus spoke, being straight to the point with answering, hoping his son and the pig are alive. Hearing what he said alarms Cormac and Robbie as the goth teen inquires.

"What happened to the little guy?"

"Are they gonna be okay?" Cormac asks, now worried about his family members, "Anything we can do to help?"

Marcus shakes his head slowly, "Not us, at least. Shannon and Shauna are with their father, uncle, the twins and Soos to go rescue them. I haven't heard from Shannon or Shauna since from what they told me." He frowns a tad, closing up the cash register while talking to Robbie, "For now, I'm going to show Robbie here where everything in the store is. Walk with me, kid." Marcus beckoned the teen. Robbie lets out a sigh as he follows his boss throughout the story. Cormac following the two, Marcus not minding one bit as he gives a walkthrough on each item. Such as the crystal growing kits and candies.

The young man asking Robbie, "How are you adjusting to your job?"

Robbie flips his bangs in a nonchalant manner as he expresses his discontent to lament, "Customers can be freaking stupid. There's a difference between those smooth rocks and the candies being sold. Pfft, don't get me started earlier where I couldn't open the damn register to ring up people. It sucked when I was by myself, for a bit, before Marcus got here." He lets out a groan and questions, "How does Shannon and Shauna, and you, Marcus, deal with people on a daily basis while working?"

Marcus chuckles a tad, "Vent about like you are doing now, where no one else but good friends and family to hear you out. Trust me, there are times where I just want to swear at the person. Doesn't happen all the time, but when it does, I just pray I can get the job done quickly for them to leave. I love my job, just not the cons when it comes to dealing with people."

It was one of the most relatable things Robbie ever heard, being taken back by it.

Marcus continued to add Shauna and Shannon's experiences with people, but they were different than the teen expected when the older man said, "If there are customer's giving Shannon and Shauna lip, Shannon would just deny them service and make them leave, though not without Shannon giving the person a piece of her mind. Worst case scenario is Shannon will use her… vindictive methods on certain people that do her or the family wrong."

Robbie hopes to not get on his boss' worse side at the mention. He then dare to ask, "Like… what did she do?"

Cormac answers for him to mention one incident with a small hint of a grin, "Years ago when Aunt Shauna dated this one dude who broke her heart, when she was a teen, Aunt Shannon went over to the guy's place to wreck his car and beat the crap out of him… with a metal bat." Hearing it even brought a small smile to form on Marcus' lips in delight. Although, Robbie has a newfound respect yet fear of his boss than before.

Later that afternoon...

"Oh my goodness, Quincy!" Adeline scoops up her grandson in her arms to give him an embrace as soon as he came through the door, "I'm so glad you're okay!" She takes a moment to examine Quincy, seeing as he's been roughed up with tears in his sweater and shirt from the pterodactyl's claws, along with the scratch marks on his chest. Settling him down on the couch as she tells him, "I'm going to get the first aid kit and some juice for you, sweetie."

"Thanks, Grandma." Quincy smiles sweetly, his mom and aunt sitting with him as he sees Adeline go to the bathroom to get the first aid kit first, then prep him a glass of grape juice. Soos sits next to Quincy to give him one of the Pterodactyl Bros t-shirts.

"You're a Pterodactyl Bro too, Quincy! If you still like dinosaurs after almost getting eaten by one." Soos chuckles, seeing that the little boy was in good spirits still as he looks at the large shirt.

"I'll grow into it." Quincy accepts, smiling up at Soos, giving him a high five.

Carla going up to Stan in the kitchen with a mix feeling of annoyance and joy to see him after the stunt he told her, ultimately hugging him to praise, "Stan, you can be such a knucklehead, but you're the lovable knucklehead I'd never want to trade for anything."

Stan smiles back at her, returning the hug and saying, "Likewise, Hotpants." He then gets out a decent size egg from his pocket, showing it to his wife as she's taken back, "Check this out, Carla! A genuine dinosaur egg I took from the cavern when we went on that rescue mission. We can make an attraction out of this when it hatches!"

Soos comes right in as he sees the egg his boss holds, "Ah dude! That's real awesome! But how did you manage to keep it safe from what was all going on?"

Stan didn't actually know how he managed to pull it off, but he did as he says in modesty, "Well, uh, my coat pockets are like a void, so let's go with that."

"What?!" Carla gasps, taking a gander at the egg that miraculously withstand the events back at the abandoned mines. She feels the smoothness of the egg, having been in tree sap for millions of years made it slightly sticky. "Stan, what kind of dinosaur are we talking about?" She asked with both hands on her hip, really hoping it wasn't going to be a gigantic reptile.

"Uh… how should I know? I only know it's gonna draw in the crowds and money." Stan uttered with a sly grin, not knowing exactly what kind of dinosaur was inside the egg.

Ford, Dipper and Mabel walk inside the kitchen, having overheard Stan as his twin give his two cents about the egg, perking a big smile, "Great job, Stanley! I can study that egg while looking into the tree sap's properties. First, I need to call the others for a family meeting concerning the dinosaurs in the cavern.

"Oh wow!" Mabel cheered, getting a closer look of the egg when she climbed on Stan's back, "I bet it's gonna be a friendly plant eater." She imagines the scenario where the egg hatches into a stegosaurus, eating a variety of things with Waddles, and getting to ride on it through town with everyone in awe, even Pacifica.

Dipper takes out a small flashlight from the counter as he tells with a smile, "Actually, I know this trick where you can use a light to see inside the egg. It works for chicken eggs, so it should work for dinosaur ones too." He flashes the light right underneath the egg, "Like so!"

From within the egg they could see, to their surprise, the embryo was fully developed where it's shown to have claws, fangs, and elongated neck, legs and tail. It surely wasn't the stegosaurus Mabel hoped it would be. Dipper, Mabel, Carla and Stan were in awe of seeing the small life within it that they hardly noticed the rest of the family members come inside to make themselves comfortable.

"What kind of egg do you have there?" asked Adeline, pouring a glass of juice for Quincy to have after his whole ordeal.

"A dinosaur egg Grunkle Stan took!" Dipper says ecstatically. "Seems like it'll hatch soon."

Adeline was taken back by surprise, but her priorities were on caring for Quincy and she'll do just that. Though she does comment with a bright smile, "I'll take a gander at that in a bit. I'm sure we have the incubator stored in the lab. The family's here so we need to get ready for what Ford has to say."

In the living room before the whole meeting were to start, Quincy gets a shower of embraces from each family member on his safe return. Especially from his father, Marcus, was truly happy that his son was alive and safe now, having been scared, even if he didn't show it. They all wish they could do more for the boy, but them giving Quincy all the love he most certainly needs, was greatly enough to him.

Soon, everyone gathers in the dining room table, taking their respective seats with Ford at the head of it. Ford having gotten a large chalk board full of depictions of dinosaurs and and outcomes he'll be describing. The dinosaur egg placed right in front of him at the table, getting the quick attention from the triplets, Cormac, Tara and James to get a closer look. Junior tilts his seat back with a leg crossed the other. Jessie holding her head up with one arm, and the other resting on the table, how she always appeared in disinterest whenever Ford was lecturing or presenting about something, but she still listened nonetheless.

Ford clears his throat as he begins his presentation, "Thank you family for coming over. The egg on the table isn't an ordinary bird egg, but a genuine dinosaur egg, courtesy of Stanley here for taking it while rescuing Quincy and Waddles." He said as he smiled to his brother.

Stanley grins a tad at the mention, adding, "And when it hatches, I'll be using it as an attraction! A hundred bucks a gander at it." He gets the chuckles from Jessie, Lillian, Tara, Tyrone and Tanya.

"After we study it, of course." Adeline raised a brow at her brother-in-law, wanting a once-in-a-lifetime chance to study a living dinosaur. "We still don't know what species it is."

Ford gets everyone's attention once more, "Now as I was saying on the real reason you're all here." He takes out a retractable metal rod, pointing it at an image of the tree sap, "This life sustaining tree sap, found near the abandoned mines and caverns, has been melting at an alarming rate from the summer heat over the years." Pointing at the image of a freed pterodactyl, "Thus, setting loose the dinosaurs within said sap, such as the pterodactyl that was causing a ruckus from the papers, and having taken our own family members, of whom we thankfully saved from." Having listened to Ford has each of the family conversing with one another in concern. Knowing that if all the dinosaurs were to leave the caverns and out into the town, it will cause a great stir. Ford hearing bits from their discussions as each has something to say on the matter.

"What are we to do?" Tyrone questions.

"Let them run about?" Tanya shrugs, though getting some doubtful stares from her suggestion. She was quick to add, "What? People get eaten by a multitude of things in our crazy world so…"

Lillian assures to her elder daughter, "You make a good point, but we're more concerned of how it'll affect everything."

"How do we prevent this from happening?" James spoke up with a briefly raised hand, adding his input from all the knowledge he gained while working as a Lake Ranger over the years, "With the dinosaurs running amuck out in the forests, they can damage the ecosystem and existing wildlife."

Adeline nods to James, seeing that his claim holds plausibility, "You're right, James." She exchanges a look to her husband, wondering herself of what they were going to do, "Ford, do you have a plan that could handle these dinosaurs?" She also hoped that she could find a safe location to watch the dinosaurs in their natural habitat. Adeline, internally, was absolutely thrilled to get the opportunity to study the creatures. At least one, now that they have an egg to hatch.

Ford shows a grin on his face, he indeed, has something up his sleeve that could possibly work, "Thought you'd never ask!" Of course he did anticipate the question would be asked. Ford flips the chalkboard to the other side, showing off a blueprint of sorts of how they were going to pull off the task, displaying the tunnels and cavern he memorized and illustrated on his notes, "I was thinking the best course of action would be to seal off any possible routes the dinosaurs can possibly escape through. The bad news, there's not a viable population of each of the species we found in the cavern. They'll all end up dying off within decades after being freed." He frowns some from sharing his claim. It too brought dismay to not only Adeline, but to Quincy and the rest of the family.

Aria broke the silence as she suggests, "Can we clone them? If that's even possible."

Ford and Adeline glance over to each other, then giving a "No." in unison to the suggestion. If they had the funding and equipment, then it could be pulled off, but they would never think to go that far.

Arya argues with her, having watched the movie with the same concept as she said, "Um, I can quickly see how that would all end in disaster, sis." She does show a slight grin to the idea of there being more dinosaurs, "Though then again, it does sound real cool."

Anais adds her input in defense of the notion, feeling like she has a better answer, "The reason why that park failed was because of the incompetent, ill-trained staff members. They didn't think to run some tests and data to determine if it was all a good idea, in the long run. Plus, they underestimated the all-female dinosaurs intelligence and accelerated development."

Cormac sighed as the triplets end up arguing about the whole cloning debate, disassociating by staring right at the wall, tuning the conversation out until it ends.

Tara gets her daughters to quiet as she slightly raised her voice at them, "Girls!" The triplets immediately hushed from their mother's command out of respect, seeing how they were interrupting what was really important. Tara continuing to say, "Let's hear what your great-uncle has for a solution."

Ford pinched the bridge of his nose for a moment before saying, "Alright, so I was thinking we can procure some dynamite to blow up the entrances to the abandoned mines all together, and seal up any possible exits. And if we can't get dynamite, then we'll need something else… I can't do this all on my own, so this will be a team effort from all of you, if you all want to participate. I won't be forcing anyone to risk their lives to do this. I will warn it can possibly get dangerous if we aren't careful."

"I'll help out." Dipper spoke, raising his hand.

"Count me in!" Mabel cheered.

"Me too!" Quincy voices, everyone surprised he'd want to go through with it, after the incident with the pterodactyl. The little boy wanted to help, despite what he went through.

Just about everyone in the room raised their hands as a sign to Ford that all his family has his back. It brought a smile on Ford's face, but he still frets internally if the worse were to happen. However, there is no other help he can get from the townsfolk. He does think of Fiddleford or his grandson, Isaac, as a possible option - if either are willing, that is.

With a clap of his hands, he grins to say, "Wonderful! Over the next few days, we'll put this plan into motion once I, along with Adeline, Shannon, Shauna and Charlie get a better layout of the caverns and mine shafts, while also gathering specimens to conduct research on. I know it'll be a risky undertaking, but it's the best way where we can set up the devices to cause the cave-ins." Ford takes up the dinosaur egg in his hand, "Everyone should get some sleep. Tomorrow, we'll be doing phase one of the plan. And I need to put this egg in the incubator to hatch it."

The family members begin to leave the home, heading off to do their own business. Quincy asking his parents, "Why do they get to keep a dinosaur?"

Shauna shows a tired smiles as she tells her innocent son, "Well, I think they can give it a better home here than what we could provide for it. Especially if it's a carnivore, and I don't want one in the house."

Quincy nods, understanding, "Makes sense. I don't want one to eat Box."

"Wait, what about dinner?" Dipper questions, not having eaten anything since getting back from the rescue mission.

"Oh yes!" Adeline nearly forgotten, "I can fix us something to eat."

Later that night in the lab...

Ford examines the sample of tree sap gathered from the cavern under a microscope, finding some remarkable traces of unique properties that are possible causes to the dinosaurs incredible longevity, and how their bodies managed to be sustained after millions of years. Meanwhile, Adeline joyously takes notes as she watches the dinosaur egg incubate in the device, having made a guess on which temperature to set it on for optimal conditions.

"This is absolutely incredible, Addi!" Ford remarks in excitement while comparing average tree sap to the kind he's looking over on the laptop, finding that it may not be tree sap at all that's kept the dinosaurs alive; something that it not of their world. Of course, he was getting tired, but he's been through days without sleep, and his discovery was worth the restless night for him.

"I know right?! From what I'm looking at right here, this little guy could be a raptor or a compsognathus… from what I've studied from fossils." Adeline exchanges a look to her husband, making a valid suggestion, "We should build an enclosure for the little guy when it hatches."

Ford nods, having thought the same, but there were risks that due to the popularity of their home, the dinosaur would be easily spotted by strangers and pose issues. However, his brother and Carla can be quick to disway the tourists that the dinosaur is just a common animal they dressed as, or even a lively animatronic.

"I think we can turn the backyard to give it a spacious habitat, although we're gonna need James and Tara's help for suggestions." Ford rubs his tired eyes as he gets up to see the egg, "I hope it won't be too big to handle, or else we have to take it to the caverns to seal with the rest of the dinosaurs."

Adeline's face grew crestfallen from hearing that last resort, but it made sense if they cannot find a way to contain the creature. She places a light hand on the glass, looking up at Ford, "I think you should get some sleep, dear. I can take watch over this egg in case it hatches overnight."

Ford won't deny her request as he places a kiss on her forehead, "Alright, Addi. When you get tired, come to bed. Have a good night. I love you."

Adeline smiles fondly back at him to bid, "Love you too, Ford."

The next early morning...

Adeline wakes from her slumber with a jolt, hearing a peep coming from the incubator. She recovers quickly from her stumble on the ground to bear witness to see the egg hatching right before her eyes. In that moment, she felt conflicted: should she run up stairs to tell everyone, or to watch first hand the miracle in front of her happening? She thinks best to run to the bedrooms to cry out, "IT'S HATCHING! THE EGG! EVERYONE COME QUICKLY!"

Mabel lets out a groan as she wakes, but Dipper was all perked up from what his great-aunt was screaming to the heavens about. She slowly gets up and makes her way downstairs. "Can it wait to hatch a bit longer?"

"Yes!" Dipper gets right out of bed and out the door, tripping over something where he let out an "Ow!" Though he quickly recovers to make haste to the lab.

Stan groggily woke as did Carla, the older male putting on his glasses as he goes wide-eyed, processing what Adeline was screaming about.

"Ah shit! Our money-maker is hatchin'!" Stan cheers with a big grin, literally carrying Carla out of bed so they both can get there fast enough, but his wife doesn't seem to mind as she was still sleepy.

Hearing her stirred them all to wake, Ford bolted right out of the bedroom and follows Adeline to the lab, along with everyone else to bear witness the hatching of the small dinosaur. The young dinosaur emerges from the cracking egg, everyone's eyes brighten when they see a dark green and blue, feathery down on the ancient reptile's greenish skin from the head to body, legs and the tip of the tail, with small fangs shown from its beak, two claws on each hand, and three toes on its feet. It was a compsognathus, although appearing more mature than they anticipated, letting out a loud squawk when it looked Ford right in the eye, instantly imprinting on him. Tilting its head at the humans watching it.

"It's a…" Mabel realizes she has no clue of what the dinosaur in front of her is, "What kind of dinosaur is it?"

Dipper smiles as he has knowledge of different kinds of dinosaurs, "I believe it's a compsognathus."

"Right you are, Dipper!" Adeline remarks, bring a grin on the boy's face, as puts the same material gloves used for falconry, and opening the incubator to safely handle the chicken sized dinosaur, "They're thought to be carnivorous; this one seems to be the case with how its fangs are. This species of comp only grows to the size of a chicken." The small dinosaur squawks again, making it known that it's hungry. The noise piercing their ears as the twins, Carla, Stan and Ford cover theirs.

Stan then offers with a big grin on his face, "Hey, while you two make it a pen, or somethin', Carla and I can put that little guy as our now attraction. And get it some grub."

Adeline and Ford exchange a look, silently conversing the course of action to take. They had yet to make an enclosure for the dinosaur and Stan can keep it preoccupied while they work on it, with James and Tara's help.

Ford sighs, giving Stan permission, "Alright, but only for today while Addi and myself get to work on its home." He then thinks, "Hmm, it just occurred to me we haven't named it yet."

"How about Compy?" Dipper suggests with a small smile, "An easy name to remember, I think."

"Sounds good to me, Dipper. A simple, unisex name will suffice." Ford comments, supporting the idea. He gets out his phone to take a quick picture of Compy, sending it to every member of the family with the message: "Our newest, unlikely pet, Compy the compsognathus."

"I can agree with the "easy to remember" part. We can determine the gender later." Adeline says in a positive manner, collecting the egg shells to examine later, placing the delicate material somewhere to store it.

"Yay! Seems like a good name." Mabel chirped as she pets the small dinosaur.

"Eh, sure, kiddo." Stan agreed with his nephew, "Alright, Compy, help your Uncle Stan and Aunt Carla make some money!" As soon as the older couple leave with the small dinosaur in arms, Compy was squawking in protest and reaching out for Ford.

At James and Tara's residence, the couple hear their respective cell phones ring from getting the photo of Compy sent to them. Tara was first to grab her cell phone and James' to look at the picture of the compsognathus, the woman smiling tiredly at the image.

Two days later...

Compy jumps up at the table to eat Stan's food, eating the meat only. The old man was not pleased as Carla tries to shoo off the dinosaur with a rolled up newspaper. The money-making attraction using Compy did prove to not be as fruitful as they hoped, the small dinosaur having pickpocketed the tourists and then squawking as if saying "No refunds!" at them, the people running out in fright. Not only that, Lillian was not pleased to have Compy roaming around the house, having felt intimidated by the small dinosaur the previous night during dinner, due to her being of certain reptiles from when she was a young girl, her brother having unintentionally gave her that fear. Compy had found a way to escape his enclosure more than once, having used his intelligence to find weak points to exploit. Waddles having been totally afraid of Compy took up hiding under Mabel's bed, the girl having chortled while making "pigs in a blanket jokes".

"Hey! Off the table! And off the food!" Carla warns with rolled up newspaper in hand, only making a loud noise with it, not having the intention of hitting Compy with it, despite the growing irritation she's feeling from the dinosaur. "At least Gompers and Waddles are more civil…" She grumbles.

Compy squawks at the couple angrily with his feathery down puffed up, continuing to eat what was left of the food before leaving. Stan backs away from the small dinosaur with a small glare, then calling for his brother, "Stanford, this little shit needs to go!"

Ford takes a deep breath, having listened to everyone's concerns about Compy, he makes the decision that would be better for everyone in the long run, "You're right, Stanley. Most of our family has expressed their complaints too. Except for James and Tara, they offered to take in Compy to care for." Ford then grins a tad as there was a bright side from the whole experience, "We did get a lot of data from Compy in the past few days. He would be better off with them, anyway than here."

They all jolt when they hear the crashing sound of something made of glass, along with hearing multiple squawks coming from the living room. All of them get up to find Tara giving chase to the small dinosaur, while Dipper and Mabel watch in awe with a satisfied Adeline and James watching the whole, wild scene. Tara was an expert at catching fast animals and children, having on more than one occasion, needing to catch her once rambunctious children when they were much younger. James didn't mind in the slightest; he never could manage to apprehend his once hyper children.

"Oh no you don't!" Tara exclaims as she managed to intercept the agile dinosaur over the couch, having anticipated where he was going to dart off to. She grins, having caught Compy in her arms, using one hand to muzzle the beak to prevent the dino from snapping at her, and the other to tuck in the sharp feet from scratching the flesh off her arm. "There we go, now. My children were much faster than this little guy."

"That was cool, Aunt Tara!" Mabel beams, petting Compy, "Gonna miss you, Compy, but we get to see you sometimes, at least when we come visit."

Dipper finds it remarkable his aunt is holding down Compy as she was, the small dinosaur not able to escape her grasp, just as he did before with Adeline when she tried to catch him.

"He's going to love his new home with us. We'll try to break his thieving habit." James comments, lifting the small animal carrier up to assist his wife.

James opens the carrying cage for Tara to place the small dino in, then closing it quickly before Compy were to burst open said cage. Tara hated putting animals in cages, but thankfully, Compy won't be in it for long as he'll have a new home with them. None of them wanted to give the dinosaur to one of the local farmers.

Later that night...

With many people asleep, Ford, Adeline, Shauna, Shannon and Shifty seize the opportunity to travel to the abandoned mines through the old, decaying church's floor. They only opened it wide enough where it's also small in width where larger dinosaurs can't leave through. With a secured, sturdy rope attached to a strong beam, the five descend into the shaft below them. Adeline and Shifty were taken back by the prehistoric plant life that managed to thrive after millions of years.

"My goodness…" Adeline beams in excitement like a child in a candy store, "While we're here, we should take a moment to study these plants."

"I was actually thinking the same thing, Mom." Shauna agreed with a confident smile, putting her skills in botany to work. She puts on a surgeon's mask over her mouth and nose, wanting to prevent the potentially toxic pollen to effect her in any way, Adeline and Shannon doing the same.

Shifty sniffs around the area, but the strong scent of plants he'd never seen before clouded his sense to detect any dinosaurs that could be lurking about as he warns, "We have to be real careful here. My sense of smell is clouded from all these plants. Bleh…"

Ford lifts up his own lantern, wanting to venture down further to check on the cavern where many of the dinosaurs were trapped in the sap. "I'm going to have a look down in the cavern to check on the dinosaurs."

Hearing her husband mention dinosaurs really got Adeline excited to see for herself of all the dinosaurs, "I'm coming with you, Ford. I wanna see them for myself." She looks to her children to ask them, "Any of you want to come along?"

The two out of three shake their heads, giving their reason to not wanting to come. Shauna being first to say, "I'll stick around here to collect some seeds from the plants."

"I wouldn't mind taking a few rocks to take a gander at." Shannon smirks, already having several rocks in her arms she was about to store in her backpack.

"I'll go with you and Dad. From what you spoke of, the pterodactyl may try to attack again, so I want to be there to protect you both." Shifty smiles to his parents, then turns to Shannon and Shauna, "Will you both be alright here on your own?"

Shannon spoke with assurance in her voice, "We'll be fine, we have each other's backs and can cover our blind spots. For the most part at least."

"We'll scream if we have any trouble." Shauna lightly smiled, giving her parents and older brother a thumbs up.

Ford nods to his daughters, feeling better about not only checking on the dinosaurs, but to point out the spots where they plan on placing the explosives to create the cave-ins. However, in the back of his mind, he would always worry for his children and their safety. They should never suffer from his mistakes, although, they have before. Ford, Adeline and Shifty head inside the cavern, the older man leading them to a large area where much tree sap trapped the numerous dinosaurs within.

"This is… This is… awesome!" Adeline exclaims, trotting to each of the dinosaurs she sees, knowing the names of almost all the species she sees, "Triceratops! Hah! Tyrannosaurus Rex did have feathers after all! Ha ha ha! And is that a spinosaurus?" She touches the sap on accident, her hand stuck to the pile of the adhesive substance.

Ford shushes his wife as he frees her with the lanterns heat, "We have to be quiet. The pterodactyl could be near."

"Oops, sorry, hun. I got a little carried away." Adeline partly smiles, feeling a bit embarrassed. "It really is remarkable these dinosaurs have been down here all this time. Makes me wish we could have checked these mines years ago." She shrugs in humor of it, "Better late than never, I suppose."

Ford nods, he too having wished he'd known sooner to go into the mines to investigate them further. He grins over to Shifty, seeing his son enjoying the sight of all the dinosaurs he can turn into. However, he remembers the job they have to perform, "Well take it all in before we have to seal the exits tomorrow. We should keep moving."

Shifty decides to humor himself by transforming into the different dinosaurs he sees, chuckling all the while until he gets to the pile of sap where one of the dinosaurs escaped. It causes alarm to him as he calls over his parents to come look with him, "Mom! Dad! I think we have a problem right here."

Ford and Adeline haste themselves to where Shifty stood in front of the pile of tree sap, the imprint of a dinosaur left behind. Ford gasps as it wasn't the pterodactyl's but of the utahraptor from when they rescued Quincy and Waddles. Adeline and Shifty could see Ford's terrified expression, figuring he knows something dangerous must have broken free, putting the son on high alert.

Meanwhile with Shannon and Shauna, the blonde adult twin collects several seeds from each plant carefully, being completely unaware that the large, feathered utahraptor locks its sights on her from within the brush, and the sound of the geysers shooting up masked its footsteps inching closer, aiming to kill for its first meal in millions of years.

A/N: Another chapter written by vulpixen! Alrighty, we're almost done with getting to the best parts! Sorry to leave this chapter on a cliffhanger, but it was all too tempting as the next chapter will continue where it leaves off on. Don't worry, after the next chapter, we'll be getting to Dreamscapers and Gideon Rises. Hope you're all excited as the dinosaur-related plot will come to an end in Chapter 37: Fairy's Fire!