"What do we do, what do we do, what do we do!?" Mabel paces the room with her hands on her head, almost pulling her hair out.

"First, you need to calm down, I mean, look at how calm Soos is." I gesture over to the man laying, and not moving, on the floor. His belly goes up and down shallowly, indicating that he is, indeed, alive, but just unconscious.

"He's 'calm' because he knocked himself out with worry!" Mabel does rabbit ears on the word calm.

"Well sure, but at least he's calm, right?" I will myself not to smile at the situation at hand.

"Okay, can we please stop saying calm!?" Mabel rips her hands off her head, a few strands of her silky brown hair falls.

"Alright, alright, just cal-" she shoots me a threatening glare, "uh, just relax! Let's brainstorm and think of a plan, k?"

"Right, a plan, to save Dipper and Wendy...got it," she says, while taking a few deep breaths to relax. We hear a scream from within the bunker and Mabel flips out even harder. "OKAY, change of plans, there is no plan except to go and find the two! Let's go!" She runs and jumps onto Soos, successfully waking him up in a state of panic as well. She grabs his hand, and mine, and drags us into the next room.

"Wendy!? Oh, it's so dark! How will we ever find them?" The oldest in our group looks around anxiously.

"Leave that to Mabel!" The girl presses the light bulb on her sweater, emitting a luminous light to come out and brighten the radius around us.

"Uhhh, how does that even work?" I raise an eyebrow while poking at it.

She swipes my hand away with an annoyed mock look as I smile sheepishly and hide my hand behind my back. "Whoa, rad! Although, isn't electric clothing kinda like a fire hazard?"

Without saying anything, I gesture to Soos, who made a good point.

"Nope, it's a fun hazard. Now let me light the way!" Mabel says proudly, her hands on her hips, then she runs off with Soos following close behind.

"No- I-I'm pretty sure that's a big fire hazard!" I shout running after them with my finger in the air.

"We're coming for you dudes!" Soos's yells are heard from further within.

~~Time Skip brought to you by: Me actually wondering what Mabel and Soos were doing the entire time Wendy and Dipper were getting chased... Guess I just have to wing it...~~

The first room we stop in has a couple cryogenic chambers and what looks like an examination table. I shiver involuntarily from the creepy vibes it gives off. "Whoa, look at these weird science tools!" Soos picks up a couple of utensils. He clinks tweezers together before setting them back down.

"What was this room even for...?" I ask to myself, gaping at the old machinery. "Ford, what were you doing?"

"What was that, Macie?" Mabel asks from the other side of the room, looking through a folder of some sort.

"N-nothing! Just super..uh, creeped out." I rub my left arm, feeling all the goosebumps through my sleeve. "Reminds me of a level in a game I liked to play...if there was a pig hanging right around here." I move my hand in a circular motion in an area I'm indicating. "And zombies chasing you every round that is...maybe a mystery box over there..." I mumble to myself, not noticing the two leaving. Turning around, startled from a crash, I now notice that they're gone. "Oh come on- Guys!? Where'd you go and what'd you drop!?" I cup my hands around my mouth for maximum volume.

"Over here, dude!" Soos's voice comes from my right, so I head that way. I just about trip on a loose piece of flooring, and nearly give myself a heart attack. 'Stupid metal scrap flooring...' I kick the scrap and it breaks off satisfyingly. "Boo!"

"What in the mother- freaking- what the heck man!?" I jump back, a hand clutched on my heart, which is beating rapidly. Soos and Mabel, who were laughing maniacally, take off a couple of masks they used to scared me with.

"Oh, man! You should have seen your face! I wish we brought a camera, eh Soos?" The shorter culprit elbows the taller one in the stomach. He giggles and places his hand on top of his belly.

"Ha, haha, I know right! We were on fire!" The man pumps his fist in victory.

"Har har, very funny, and what happened to you being scared for Dipper?" I cross my arms and glower at Mabel, who was no doubt the one to initiate this impromptu horror fest.

"While it is true that I'm still very much worried for our dear brother, I have relaxed and realized that he is very capable of being by himself, plus Wendy's with him so he's extra fine!"

"Ugh, whatever let's just go, and don't do that again!" I point and narrow my eyes to the, still giggling, maniacs. Their enjoyment ceases after a little when they follow my lead.

We end up on a dirt, tunnel-y path, and soon bump into the others, literally. "Dipper! Wendy!"

"Soos! Mabel!" They all exchange excited greetings. Suddenly, Dipper's attitude changes into a paranoid one, shielding Wendy while narrowing his eyes at us, warning-ly, "Wait! How do we know they're not the shapeshifter?"

I groan and face-palm.

"What did the shape-shifter look like before we bumped into each other?" I decide to ignore Soos and his antics with Mabel, while the other two look on with confused faces.

"Er, a caterpillar thing?" Dipper shrugs, looking at Wendy for her input, but she only shrugs as well.

"And where were we when you guys ran off?"

"Back in the lab room?"

"And which way did the monster go?"

They both point the opposite way.

"And can he look like us if he hasn't seen us?"

"No."

"Then we are not the shape-shifter, simple as that."

The two blink, astonished at my reasoning, because why not? I'm a very reasonable person!

"Okay, I can see Macie saying that with the annoyed tone she used it in, it's them." Dipper looks up to Wendy.

"Hey!"

Dipper laughs and sticks his tongue out at me, then looks back to Wendy but gasps in surprise and kneels down to her knee level. "Oh my gosh! Wendy, you're bleeding!"

She kneels down as well, and calms him down, "It's cool, it's cool. It's just blood man; don't freak out."

"Geez, Dipper, you act like you've never seen blood before," I tease and he glowers at me.

"What happened?" Mabel asks worriedly.

Wendy answers, taking off her shirt in the process, "We got attacked by the shape-shifter. He broke out of his cage, pretended to be the author, and wants Dipper's journal." She finishes tying her sleeve around the injury and stands back up.

"Imagine if he escapes to the town! He can transform into anything! We could never trust anyone ever again!" Dipper starts spluttering nervously.

"Now that. Would be bad, yes..." I ponder with my finger to my chin.

"What do we do!?" Mabel brings her hands to her mouth.

The tough girl's eyebrows furrow as she smirks, "Well, he took us into his home, tricked us, and tried to destroy us. I say we return the favor."

We huddle together and make a game plan.

~~Time Skip brought to you by: Dipper and Wendy bamboozling the shape-shifter!~~

Soos, Wendy, and I all wait by a valve connected to a pipe, getting ready for our cue to turn it and wipe out the monster. Two shadows start to make their way towards us, one shouting, "Guys, he's coming! He's coming! NOW, NOW, NOW, NOW!"

I pull, along with the others, as hard as I can but it doesn't want to budge. It does finally move after a second of pulling and tugging on my end, but water refuses to come out, making Soos panic. "It's not working, dudes!"

"Come on!" I grind my teeth, my hands growing red from rubbing them raw. The monster catches up and attempts to take the journal from Dipper using its tongue. Dipper struggles and Wendy lets go of the valve to go help. After helping, but failing to get the journal back, rushing water gushes out of the pipe and knocks the shape-shifter and Wendy, who was fighting on top of it, back and we all get engulfed by the cold water.

~~Time Skip brought to you by: Confessions!~~

I groan, cough and splutter dirty water out of my mouth. "Yuck, pleh." I stand up, shivering, "Is everybody okay?" looking around to see Dipper, Mabel, and Soos just now getting up. Dipper is the first to comprehend the situation, besides me because I already know, as he gasps and runs over to Wendy's left behind ax.

"WENDY! Oh man, what do we do!" The boy flails his hand around wildly.

"First. We're gonna calm down, like I told Mabel earlier." I grab hold of his shoulders and look him in the eye. He's visibly tense, but relaxes a bit. "Next, you're going to go after Wendy and we," I gesture to the others and myself, "are going back to the lab. I have a plan." I give him a determined smile, hoping he would return it, but he doesn't.

"Macie, you- you should come with me! What if- what if Wendy's hurt or something...what if the shape-shifter is, like, gouging out her eyes?!" He starts hyperventilating.

"Whoa! Calm down, deep breaths! Alright, I'll go with you." His heavy breathing stops when I relieve his worries. I look back to my sister and friend, "Mabel, you know that plan?" I ask with a knowing smile.

She grins brightly and gives me a thumbs up, then motions at Soos to follow her and they leave from my sight.

"Okay, I'm ready." Dipper tells me. I hold out an elbow and he takes it.

We venture our way through the moist tunnels, occasionally wiping water drops off my face. The scene brightens up around us, revealing a lone figure on the soil. "WENDY!" Dipper rips his arm from mine and runs up to the non-moving body, shaking her. "Wendy! No, no, no-no-no! Can you hear me? Oh, please be okay, please be okay!" He shakes her some but 'Wendy' is unresponsive. "Oh no, oh no! This is all my fault! If I had told you when we were in the closet we wouldn't be in this mess. But I was too scared and now you could be hurt or worse, and I never even got to tell you I'm, like-" Dipper's eyes leak tears as he buries his face in his hands after saying, "In love with you, Wendy.."

I pat him on the back, ignoring the real Wendy's gaze before she speaks up with a low voice, "Uhh, Dipper?"

He startles and gets taken aback, looking to and from the Wendys. "Huh—wha—Wendy?! W-wait, then who's...?" I poke the 'dead' girl with a stick on the eye for fun. She gets up and growls, crawling away and attacking the real one.

The two fight and yell in the same voice, confusing me. I try to keep my eyes on the real Wendy but they go out of focus and I lose her once more. Dipper panics and grabs the ax, not sure which one to hit. "Uh...that one!" I point to the one on the right, then splutter, "Wait, no no, t-that one, that one!" I point to the girl on the left.

"You're not helping, Macie!" Dipper cries. "Uh, uh, I don't know who's who...give me a sign!" The two don't let go of the journal, but look to Dipper. Fake Wendy smiles and winks while the other 'zips' her lips. Dipper gasps, realizing the real one as he axes the shape-shifter a question in the stomach.

'Ouch...gonna feel that one in the morning...'

The monster screams and returns to his real form, suddenly looking very angry my way. 'What'd I do!?' A ding noise chimes, and a sign above one of the cryogenic chambers lights up with the word 'READY' on it, flashing. "Push him in!" Dipper yells to Wendy and me. The monster screeches, pulls out the ax and starts to charge at me. He doesn't get too far before we push him into the tube. After doing that, the glass closes on him and he pounds it furiously.

The water starts to rise as the shape-shifter gets more frantic, knowing what's about to happen, "No! Let me ouuuuttt!" His cries fall silent as his body freezes.

"That was your plan? Right on, Macie!" Wendy pats me on the back, gratefully.

"Good job, guys." Dipper praises Mabel and Soos for actually doing the work, "And thanks for coming with me Macie, it meant a lot..." He rubs the back of his neck, embarrassed.

"Don't sweat it, bro." I slap him on the back maybe a little too hard, causing him to wheeze.

"Let's get out of here, dudes." We all agree to Soos silently, as we make our way back, but the shape-shifter comes back. 'Like, isn't he frozen? How is he speaking again?'

"Mwahahaah" 'Ten out of ten evil laugh right there...' I shiver. Turning around, we stand frozen in place as he speaks to us, "You think you're so clever don't you, Dipper? But you have no idea what you're up against. You will never find the author. If you keep digging, you'll meet a fate worse than you can imagine. And this will be the last form you ever take!" He forms into Dipper and looks to scream with his arms up, terrified and finally freezes for good.

The others' jaws drop in horror, while I'm just here thinking. 'Sooooo how does the shape-shifter know about the future anyways? Dipper gets frozen like that in episode ten. So how come he doesn't know that Pacifica will open the gates if he knows that Dipper will freeze...?'

"Heh heh, good luck sleepin' tonight!" Soos laughs, directing his statement towards Dipper, respectively.

I couldn't help but laugh myself, but I stop as soon as I see Dipper looking completely and utterly terrified by what the monster said. "Hey, hey..." I wrap an arm around his shoulder and then send Soos a glare which shuts him up quick, "what he said was obviously a lie...that is not going to happen to you and I wouldn't let it...plus, how would he even know?"

"Y-yeah, you're probably right, Macie, I just- he turned into me and looking at myself like that..." He doesn't say anymore and shivers, wrapping his arms around himself. I give him a hug, joined by Mabel while the older people look on with a sad smile.

~~Time Skip brought to you by: The Widdlest Wampire, The Planet People of Planet Planet!, Help! My Mummy's a Werewolf!, Attack of the Exclamation Points!, The Man with no Taste, Ghost Turtle, Help! My Mummy's a Werewolf! 2: This Again!~~

After Soos, Mabel and I hide in the bushes and eavesdrop on Dipper's heartfelt conversation with Wendy, we pop out and join him on the log. Dipper sighs sadly, "Mabel, Macie, how can everything be so amazing and so terrible all at the same time?"

Mabel also sighs with guilt, "I'm so sorry for being so pushy Dipper. If it's any consolation, I'm already working on your list of potential rebound crushes." She gives him a toothy grin, her braces shining.

"Thanks, Mabel. Whoa!"

My hand spasms and grabs hold of the closet thing when Soos sits down on the log with us, causing it to bump up. "Ow, M-Macie!" 'Whoops, I grabbed hold of Mabel too hard there...'

"Sorry, hee hee." I smile and she just sticks her tongue out at me.

"I'm still bummed we're no closer to finding the author guy. At least I got his science-y coat and briefcase." Soos holds up the 'briefcase' which then flops open, revealing a keyboard and screen.

"Soos, that's not a briefcase, it's a laptop!" my triplet excites, standing up.

"And a trashy one at that," I state, generating a giggle from Mabel.

"I bet I could get this thing fixed up in a few days. It's gonna take a lot of duct tape." The handy-man smiles.

"And that'll be our next clue! Sham-wow!" I reel my fist into myself.

Dipper doubles over in laughter, "Wh-haha- what?"

"A commercial for a rag called Sham-wow," I explain blatantly.

"Ah."

We all head home after that, since it's getting late anyways and I'm exhausted.

'I just hope I don't have to see any behind the scenes stuff that happens when between episodes...'

Bedrock Armor: Other than Gravity Falls, what is your favorite TV show?

My Answer: I'm going to have to say right now, Steven Universe and Miraculous Ladybug and Chat Noir! I also have tons more that I have listed that you can see on my profile :D

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