A/N: Yay! 10,000 hits! I'm so happy! Anyways I wasn't up for the original chapter idea which would have been a rather angst ridden chapter where Candy would have been somewhat depressed... thankfully the way I writer it was pretty vague and I wasn't up for an agent ridden chapter (I had a pretty crappy week) anyways... I hope you all enjoy!

Chapter 19: Candy Crushin' It

It was just a normal day in the forest.

The Journal Hunting team was surrounded by those wolf-like creatures.

"You're not going to beat us again like the last few times!" yelled one of the Wolf like creatures.

"You can talk!" yelled Grenda, Candy and Sayaka at the same time.

"Oh yeah, I forgot they could talk." Said May Belle.

You and me both…

Uh… anyways…

The Wolf Creatures began to attack.

"Sayaka on your side!" called out Candy.

"On it!" called out Sayaka who managed to kick away the wolf like creature.

"Pacifica behind you!" called out Candy noticed some were trying to attack her from behind.

Kitsu turned into her fox form causing the ones that tried to attack form behind the crash into the ground.

"Grenda! Now it's time!" said Candy remembering a plan they came up with earlier.

"Right!" said Grenda.

She grabbed one of the wolf like creatures.

"Hey! What are you doing!" yelled the one she grabbed.

She began to use it as the one to club other.

"Seriously!" yelled one of them.

"Oh come on!" yelled another.

Candy watched this.

"I didn't know they could talk." Said Candy who started to feel bad.

"I guess we should have mentioned that." Said Ursa who also felt a little bad.

However several of the Wolf Like creatures decided to attack Candy from behind.

Thankfully Ursa noticed this and used some vines to stop them.

Candy blushed.

Then she noticed some of them deciding to switch tactic to May Belle.

"Now!" yelled Candy.

"Oh right!" cheered Mabel sending her rainbow beam at them.

"What the!" yelled one of the wolf like creatures.

"Since when do unicorns send out rainbow lasers?" asked the wolf like creature.

"Just something I learned since last time." Said May Belle.

"Retreat! Retreat!" yelled one of them freaking out over it.

They all left.

Ursa did a final check.

"Still nothing?" asked Kitsu.

"Still nothing." Confirmed Ursa.

Candy found the map and crossed off the section.

And it no sign of the Journal they headed back to the Mystery Shack.

Candy looked a bit down.

"What's wrong Candy?" asked Grenda.

"Oh it's nothing." Lied Candy.

"It doesn't sound like nothing." Said Mabel.

Candy sighed knowing that Mabel and Grenda would try to pry it from her.

"I'm just worried that I'm not doing much when it comes to fights." Sighed Candy.

"That's ridiculous," laughed Mabel.

"Yeah you do plenty." Said Grenda.

"You're really smarter and you're able to come up with plans much faster than me." Said Dipper.

This made Candy blush.

Kitsu rolled her eyes, however while she did see Candy as a rival she did have some advice to her.

"Just because everyone a fighter doesn't mean you have to be. My brother Kisuke is the only one who chose not to be a martial artist, even though all my other siblings can fight he wants to be a chef when he grows up. Granted he made that choice a couple years ago… and he's still a great fighter even though he doesn't focus on it…" said Sayaka realizing it might have been a bad example, "Okay my aunts never followed the family art, Aunt Kasumi ran the household while Aunt Nabiki was really smart and…"

Sayaka stopped talking realizing that it was a really bad idea to compare Candy to her aunt.

"Don't worry about it Candy." Said Dipper, "It will be fine."

Candy didn't know what to say. That was when they saw something in the distance running towards them.

It came at them quickly and they all managed to doge it, however Candy couldn't in time and managed to grab on to whatever it was.

All five of them stared at where it seemed to be some kind of giant bull.

"That wasn't good!" said Mabel.

"We can see that." Said Kitsu.

"We have to rescue her." Said Grenda.

"But how are we going to catch up to that?" asked Dipper.

Mabel grabbed a water bottle and splashed herself.

"Hop on." She said.

Kitsu turned into her fox form and jumped onto Dipper's head, while Grenda, Dipper and Sayaka hopped onto May Belle.

"Hold on tight." Said May Belle.

She ran after the giant bull.

Candy meanwhile held onto the giant bull and began to climb to it's back, as she did she noticed how strange it felt, like it wasn't a living thing.

She knocked on it and it had a metal clang.

"That's strange." She said.

"Candy!" called out Dipper.

She turned and saw them riding May Belle who was having a rather easy time trying to catch up.

May Belle used all of her strength to jump onto the giant bull.

"Did you just jump on instead of asking Candy to jump?" asked Dipper.

"Well I'm already on so it doesn't matter." Said May Belle.

"I need your help with something." Said Candy.

"What?" asked Dipper.

"This isn't real." Said Candy.

"What do you mean?" asked Kitsu.

May Belle stomped and they heard the metal clang.

"So someone built a mechanical bull?" asked Grenda.

"Who would do that?" asked Dipper.

Everyone else shrugged.

They noticed an area that was different than the rest of the body.

"That must be the cockpit." Said Sayaka.

Grenda proceed to rip it open.

Inside was Old Man McGucket…

For those that don't know (due to the fact he didn't get a proper introduction) he was the town coot.

Kitsu, Candy and Grenda all gasped .

"Old man McGucket!" they all said.

"What!" yelled Old Man McGucket stopping the mechanical bull.

"Who?" asked Sayaka.

"I think he was the old man with the jack o'melon." Said May Belle.

"Oh yeah…" said Dipper.

"What in tarnation! How did you get here?" asked Old Man McGucket.

"You nearly ran us over with this thing!" yelled Kitsu (who was still in fox form so the effect was somewhat lost).

Candy ended up claiming aboard." Said Grenda.

"Why are you even driving this thing anyways?" asked Dipper.

"Well you see it's a long story." Said Old Man McGucket, "A few weeks ago when it was fishing season I created the Gobblewonker as a way to get attention from my son who doesn't pay attention to me so I decided to create a giant medical bull."

"Why a bull?" asked Dipper.

"Because of the pun of course!" laughed Old Man McGucket.

They all stared at Old Man McGucket.

"What pun?" asked Sayaka who didn't know what a mechanical bull was .

"Never mind it…" sighed Dipper.

"So you've been running around in a giant mechanical bull trying to get your son's attention?" asked Dipper.

"Yeah it does contrived but it ain't the first time I built a robot." Said Old Man McGucket who showed them a slide show of all the robots he built.

Which included a pterodactyl robot and something called a shame-bot.

"So you've been using your robots for evil?" asked Candy.

"Of course not I've been using them…" said Old Man McGucket who then realized, "Yes, I've kind of been using them for evil… huh…"

"Why don't you have someone to help you build good robots and other things." Said Candy.

They all looked at Candy.

May Belle, Dipper, Sayaka and Kitsu all looked at each other, a bit concerned.

However Grenda gave a look of approval.

"Wait are you offering to help me?" asked Old Man McGucket.

"Yes." Answered Candy.

"Yee haw! I've been wanting an apprentice! Come to the dump tomorrow!" cheered Old Man McGucket.

They jumped off the Mechanical Bull.

"Candy are you sure that's a good idea." Said Dipper.

"He's the crazy man who lives in the dump!" said Kitsu as she turned back to her semi-human form.

"Well… I've always been into Robots and maybe even get a way to fight off the monsters and other things that always seem to attack us." Said Candy.

"If he's a danger contact us, okay." Said Dipper.

"Of course." Said Candy.

The next day Candy went to the dump where he lived.

"All right! So you want to know about robots… I'll teach you about robots and other stuff I invented." Said Old Man McGucket who started laughing.

"So what do you have to teach me?" asked Candy.

"Hm… I can't think of anything right now, I crashed my mechanical bull after I drove off." Said Old Man McGucket.

"What's this?" asked Candy noticing something.

"Just something I'm working on… I haven't finished yet." Said Old Man McGucket.

She looked at it.

"If I help you finish it can I have it?" asked Candy.

"I don't see why not.," said Old Man McGucket.

Candy smiled, this might actually be something that would help with the searches and they ran into trouble.

The next day they met for the search. They all looked at Candy who had a backpack this time.

"So how did yesterday go?" asked Dipper.

"Didn't build any robots." Said Candy, "But I have something that might help."

"that's cool." Said Mabel.

"You have to show us!" yelled Grenda.

And so the search went as normal, until soon enoguh the Wolf like creatures once again showed up.

"Well, well, well… lookie who's back." Said one of them.

"What are you going to be more talkative now?" asked Kitsu sarcastically.

"Yeah…. We realized that it was king of stupid to not talk for a while." Said nether of them.

That was when candy reached into her backpack and pulled out some sort of arm cannon and hit them with a blast that knocked them back.

"What's that." Said Dipper.

"Oh an arm cannon Old Man McGucket built, it has many setting." Said Candy.

"And he just gave it to you?" asked Kitsu.

"That sounds like a bad idea." Said Dipper.

"After I helped finished it" said Candy, "Plus I was the one who made the settings."

"Hey it's awesome!" yelled Grenda.

"We really should be fighting them off." Pointed out Sayaka.

"She has a point." Said Mabel tossing a bottle of water at Dipper.

"Come on! Let's fight our enemies!" cheered Candy.

"YEAH!" yelled Grenda.

Dipper shrugged turned into Ursa and joined the fight.

And so Candy gained a new weapon and was learning new skills to fight the monsters that would have to face in the forest while searching for the journal…

Hey at least it was better than any sort of against ridden journey with the same results… right?

Either way things were going to be a bitt different with Candy and the team was stronger…

Next Time: Soos-y Bear gets away from the Mystery Shack and it's up to Dipper to catch him again. However with a twist, he makes a bet with Stan that he can do it without turning into Ursa. Can he be able to do it? Meanwhile Mabel wants to have a girls day and does so by baking cookies... however little does she know that it will spell doom for all those involved. What will happen? Find out next time!