Season 1 Episode 20: Tinny Ford

Episode Summary: Stan finds out he's taller than Ford and uses it to his advantage, finally tiered of all the short jokes Ford consults the journal for an instant way to become taller!

Disclaimers: I do not own Gravity Falls or the Relativity Falls AU idea.

Tinny Ford (Part 1)

It was just another beautiful day in Gravity Falls, The morning sun sent light spreading out over the valley. Wind brushed past houses and whistled through trees. The birds were singing, and the Gnomes where running as Crazy Candy Chu tried to catch them for dinner. Several playful children stopped to laugh at her efforts, as she dived after them landing face first in the dirt.

Yes just another normal day in the sun, but one child was not enjoying the hours of daylight like others did.

Bonnie Gleeful riffled through the journal her great-granddaddy had given her on the night of their defeat against the Stan Twins with much excitement. "Tsk, zombie attack? Never works, they don't take orders.". "Blood rain? Ew, mess up my dress. Hehe. No, thank you."

Meanwhile her brother sat beside her, looking less enthusiastic about their daily scheming time. Of course, she had noticed her brother's wavered loyalty for some time now. Yes, somewhere down the line Buddy forgot that he was supposed to be pretending to be their friend. Heck he had even gotten over his obsession for Heather without even realizing it.

Or so she thought.

Buddy however, was very aware that he was getting too close to the Stan twins, he was also aware that he may have unknowingly gave Ford the green light when it came to Heather, but Ford and Stan had been so nice to him, and even forgave him for nearly getting them all killed. Not only that Heather had also welcomed him into the group with open arms, assuring him that he was nowhere close the "Worse date." She ever had. Besides he was more interested in Susan now.

Even he and Fids had found some common ground when it came to their distaste for Preston.

All in all Buddy had to admit he liked the twins and his new friends, so much so that he had started to debate on whether or not he should tell them everything that his family were planning. But to do so would mean that he would be betraying his family, and more importantly his twin! Which just felt wrong to him, Bonnie had been there for him since day one, as in birth! To abandon her now for some kids he just met, no she'd never forgive him for that.

And yet, Buddy felt compelled to do the right thing.

"Demon Caterpillars? Ugh, no!" Bonnie slammed the journal closed as she looked over her homemade playset of the town. "There has to be something, some way, to make the perfect revenge plan. I can't just hurt the Pines family, no. I have to take something from them. I need to take something they cherish, something that will give me power… wait!" her gaze snapped to the Mystery Shack made from popsicle sticks. She held it up. "It's perfect."

Buddies eyes widen; he got up from his seat and backed out of the room slowly. Family or not taking the Mystery Shack was going too far. Sure it was completion for the family business, but it was also their home!

He had to warn them, and come clean about everything.

He could only hope that they could find it in their hearts to forgive him.

(Meanwhile…)

Heating up under the sun, the Mystery Shack was far from quiet. Ford sat with Fids over a game of chess at the living room table. While Grauntie Mable and Stan watched the latest episode of "Ducktective"

"You've gone too far this time Ducktective." The man on the TV said.

"And…" Fids picked up a white pawn and moved it a square. "Pawn from C2 to C3."

Right after Fids let go of his pawn, Ford picked up a black King and then set it down on the other side of the chess board. "Checkmate."

At this, Fids laughed. "How do you keep doing that? I need to practice more. …"

"At least you play with me." Ford said thankfully. "Stan says he allergic to board games."

Suddenly the doorbell rang.

"I got it!" Stan said running up to the door.

He opens it to see a worried face. "Buddy?" He asked.

"Hurry Stan, I can't be seen here!" Buddy exclaimed barging in the house.

"Stan who is it?" Mabel ask only to stop dead in her tracks as she notices Buddy.

"Aunt Mable I can explain." Stan insisted remembering how Mable had warned him to stay away from the Gleefuls.

"Well Buddy Gleeful I was wondering when you were gunna stop sneaking around with my nephews behind my back."

"You knew?" Ford asked.

"Can't pull one over on these old eyes." Mabel stated proudly.

"Look I am not here." Buddy said, hiding under the table.

"Bud what's going on?" Fids asked.

Suddenly the doorbell rings once more.

"It's her!" Buddy exclaimed.

Mabel rolled her eyes. "I'll get it." She groaned.

In faint interest, the kids watched as she opened the door with a wide smile. "Welcome to a world of Mystery-"

A man at the door, presumably a lawyer by his outfit, spoke, "Mabel Pines?"

"Yes?" Mabel answered, looking unsure.

The man smiled. "Misses Pines, I'm from the Winning house Coupon Savers contest, and you are our biiiiiig winner!" he announced with a flourish of his hands. A cameraman trailed by two women holding a giant check for ten million dollars with balloons on either side appeared behind him.

"Heh- I… won something?" Mabel looks stunned. "I guess those coupons are worth the trouble."

"Eee! We're rich!" Stan exclaimed. "I'm gunna get a talking horse!"

"I'm gunna get my own research equipment!" Ford declared happily.

"And I'm gunna finally have bragging rights!" Fids added.

"Right! Just sign here for the money," the man stated and held out a few sheets of paper.

"For the prize? Well, of course!" Mabel scribbled something down at the bottom of the top page.

Instantly, Bonnie jumped through the check and laughed. "HA! You just signed the Mystery Shack over to me!" The kids gasped.

Mabel smirked. "You should probably Check the signature."

Hesitating, Bonnie looked down at the document. "'The Shack is hereby signed over to… 'GET LOST, little Miss'?!"

Mabel burst into laughter. The rest of the kids followed suit.

Somewhat more than infuriated, Bonnie growled and ripped the paper in half. "I am not a threat to be taken lightly!" He and everyone with him backed off. "I'll get you, Mabel Pines! I'll get you all!"

Mabel, however hears none of it, and goes to usher the girl out of her house.

Bonnie retreats and the door shuts behind her.

"You can come out now." Mabel told Buddy.

Buddy breathed a sigh of relief. "Thank you Miss Pines."

"What was that all about?" Stan asked.

"Bonnie still mad about how thigs went down?" Ford asked.

"Sort of." Buddy said. "But it runs deeper than that, a long time ago my granddaddy Gideon asked Miss Mable to marry him-"

"And I told that selfish creep no!" Mabel cut in.

"You publicly rejected him in front of the entire town!" Buddy added.

"Whoa." Ford looked at Mable stunned. "That's a bit harsh."

Mabel sighed. "Look I gave him a chance I really did." She confessed. "But he was just too focused on himself, when we were just friends things were great and I tried to be honest with him." She sighed. "The last thing I wanted to do was hurt him, but then he put me on the spot and asked me at the towns Christmas celebration and I just couldn't say yes. My heart wasn't in it."

Buddy nodded. "I know, but telling Bonnie that is like trying to tell her fame isn't everything. It just doesn't compute."

"So she's been plotting against us this whole time?" Ford asked.

"I wanted to tell you, I did." Buddy said. "Honest, but she's my-"

"Twin?" Ford and Stan said in unison.

"Yeah." Buddy said feeling relieved.

"Look we get it." Ford assured him.

"Yeah besides, you did tell us, just not as soon as we'd like." Stan added.

"So we're cool?" Buddy asked.

"Well of course we're cool." Fids stated as the twins nodded their agreement.

Stan and Ford looked to Mabel hopefully.

"Hey I already said I knew." Mabel said. "Besides I trust your judgment."

The twins smiled. "Thanks Grauntie Mabel."

"But!" Mabel said giving Bud her evil eye. "I'm watching you Mr."

Buddy gulped as Mabel walked backwards into the kitchen all creepy like.

"Anyways." Ford said trying to clear the tension that had suddenly filled the room. "You want to hide out with us for the day?" he asked Buddy. "Just until your sister cools down?"

"Yeah thanks." Bud said, looking grateful.

"Great." Stan said. "Cause the girls should be here any second."

Buddy smiled at the mention of the girls.

And Mabel soon rejoins them in the living room.

"You know I think it's great that you two can still be friends." She said as if she had been thinking the whole thing over.

"Really?" Buddy asked.

Mabel nodded. "It's nice to see two guys who can get along despite a family feud, and the fact that they like the same girl."

"How do you know that?" Fids asked astonished.

Mabel smiled mischievously. "I know everything you hoodlums do."

"Everything?" Ford asked slyly.

"Everything." Mabel assured him before opening a pit cola.

"Well whoever Susan choses I won't go crazy like I did with Ford and Heather." Buddy vowed. "I'm not that guy anymore."

"Good to hear." Mabel said, and she sounded genuine.

This made Buddy feel better about the situation, but he had still failed to tell them all the whole story. That their friendship had originally started do he could spy on them for Bonnie, but Bud thought it was best that he tell his friends that in private.

Suddenly the front door opens to Heather and Susan laughing happily.

"Hey girls you're just in time." Ford said. "We were just about to start another game." He gestured to the chess board between him and Fids.

"Pass." Heather said. "I'm no good when it comes to strategy."

"I never really had the patients." Heather admitted.

"Me either." Stan confessed. "But telling Sixer that Chess isn't fun is like trying to convince him Pluto isn't a planet."

"It is so a planet!" Ford declared. "It even has five moon!"

"Besides he always win anyways wins." Stan cut his brother off. "He even keeps a little notebook with a record of how many times he's beaten me."

"Really?" Heather asked.

Ford blushed. "Maybe."

"Alright kids I know it's you're day off." Mabel said. "But I need someone to help me reposition these brains in the jars on the shelf."

The kids turn her way to notice that she's up on a ladder by a shelf, pointing to the jars on another shelf just out of her reach.

"I got it!" Ford insisted.

"Thanks champ, but Stan's taller." Mabel told him.

"Wait what?" Ford walked up to his brother shocked. "We're the same height, we've always been."

"I don't know." Fids said. "I think she's right." He pulled out a measuring tape and measured the wins as they stood side by side. "Yup, he's got exactly one millimeter on you."

"What!" Ford exclaimed.

"Whoa!" Stan shouted. "Don't you see what's happening? This millimeter is just the beginning. I'm evolving into the superior sibling!"

"No you're not!" Ford insisted, but Stan wasn't giving him the time of day.

"Bigger, stronger, the Alpha twin!"

"No one even uses millimeter, it only makes you taller in like Canada." Ford argued, even though he knows it's pointless.

"You know I've always wanted you to be the little brother." Stan teased. "Turns out you already are!"

"You are taller by one millimeter!" Ford yelled.

"Now Ford don't get short with you brother." Buddy joined in on the fun.

"Yeah it's not like we think little of you." Stan jeered.

Ford clenched his fist in anger.

Fids sees this and says. "Man maybe you should lay off a tiny bit."

"HA! TINY! Fids is in on it too!"

Ford walk away in an angry huff as Stan and Buddy erupted into a fit of laughter.

"No Ford I didn't mean it!" Fids insisted as he ran after him.

"Seriously guys?" Heather asked.

"Ah it was just in fun." Stan told her. "Besides Ford will forget he has 3-2-1…" He looked as Buddy knowingly and they said in unison.

"Short term Memory!"

"Buddy, Stan!" Susan gave them both "That's not very nice! I think you really hurt his feels."

"Nah knowing Ford he'll spend the rest of the day trying to get taller, but eventually he'll accept the facts. It's how he is, besides it's about time I bested him at something."

"It's not a competition Stan." Mabel lectured as she decided to step in. "Now I know you two were only having fun but words can hurt."

"Trust me he's fine." Stan assured her.

Buddy however looks less convinced. "I'm gunna go check up on them." He said taking his leave and heading up the stairs.

Meanwhile Ford is indeed very angry. "Stupid Stan I'm not short!" He stated as he paced around the attic room.

"Ford I'm really sorry about what I said." Fids said apologizing for the tenth time.

"I know you didn't mean it." Ford assured him as he goes for the book shelf to reach for Journal Number 3. He huffs as he notices Stan placed it too high on the shelf the last time he read it. He kicked the side of it and the book falls down.

Buddy rushes up just in time to see Ford catch it. His eyes widen as he notice it's just like the journal Gideon gave to him and his sister! He shacks the initial shock off and says. "Look Ford I'm sorry- You know how Stan and I get…I got carried away."

"There's got to be a way for me to get taller." Ford said ignoring him.

"I'm too late aren't I?" Buddy asked.

"If you mean are you too late to stop him from doing something reckless and stupid than yes." Fids said. "We both are."

"Ford flipped to a page and began to read. "Legends of miniature buffalo and giant squirrels have led me to believe there are height altering properties hidden deep in the woods."

"Oh no." Fids and Buddy said in unison.

"Oh yes!" Ford exclaimed. "And if you two want me to forgive your transgressions you will accompany me on my quest!"

"Well I guess we should have seen that coming." Fids reasoned.

Buddy mustard up a brave face. "Well what are we waiting for?" He asked.

And just like that the three friends were off to find the secrets of that awaited them deep inside the forest of Gravity Falls.

-To be Continued