A/N: Fic of the month... a story I was worried about getting out on time, not because of writer's block on this one (I had a much easier time with this story than An Extra Three for some reason... I don't know why) but because of Pokémon Violet (didn't get Scarlet). It's a fun but a bit glitchy... never cared about those things... also caught three Shinnies without using sandwiches so I'm proud of that... Anyways enjoy the chapter and please vote in poll if you haven't yet.

Chapter 14: Boyz 2 Clonez

Mabel, Candy and Grenda knew they had a mission… a mission to save a group they loved. They had to save them no matter what in this timeline.

They thankfully knew rescuing the boyband would be easy… they just had to do what they did last time.

But that that didn't mean they didn't needed some pre-time just in case .

But yeah… they had a plan, it was probably going to be easy again but due to the butterfly effect they weren't sure so they did bring a few supplies.

And soon it was time to head to the concert.

"Where are you going?" asked Stan.

"To the concert." Said Mabel.

Stan just shrugged it off.

"Don't get caught!" said Stan.

After all they had a backpack of those supplies.

Even he knew whatever they were doing was extremely illegal.

But he knew his way around illegal things… so it didn't matter as long as they didn't get caught.

"They'll be fine." He said with a shrug.

They made it to the concert and saw it was sold out.

They knew this time and waited for the time to be right.

They went in as the concert was ending.

"All right girls are you ready?" asked Mabel.

Candy and Grenda nodded.

They entered the backstage room… they already knew what was in there but it was still unsettling.

The fact that boyband was in a giant hamster cage while there was a line of clones to be ready.

The boy band noticed the intruders and reacted the same way like last time with once them threatening to dance as them with another stopping him realizing they were ladies.

Of course they quickly hid remembering their manager was going to come in.

Once he was gone it was time for the break out.

They were able to get the boyband out as easy as last time .

They got them to the Mystery Shack.

When they got there Dipper and Stan were just sitting around.

"So what were we doing last time again?" asked Stan.

"Trying to figure out if Robbie hypnotized Wendy to stay with him." Said Dipper.

"Oh yeah that." Said Stan.

That was when the girls got back.

"Wait you're doing this again?" asked Dipper as they noticed the large duffle bag.

"Pay no attention to the bag!" yelled Grenda.

"Don't ask questions or we will cut you." Said Candy.

They brought the bag upstairs and Dipper and Stan looked at each other.

"We're getting involved this time." Said Dipper.

"Yeah…" said Stan.

Upstairs they were making sure the next part of the plan went well.

"Okay! Did you make sure Soos was there?" asked Mabel.

"I did." Said candy.

"Good!" said Mabel.

They looked out the window and thankfully it played out almost exactly like last time.

Soos said different things but that wasn't important… Grenda had said that she could have sworn that Gompers the goat ate part of the license plate and that was how the manger got caught last time…

"IT ate the plate!" cheered Grenda.

They all cheered.

"What does that mean?" asked one of the boy band member.

"We're from the future and this the second we rescued you." Said Mabel.

"Really you're from the future?" asked one of them.

"Are we like super old in the future?" asked another.

"We're only from like a couple months in the future." Said Grenda.

"So are we like super old?" asked a third.

There was an awkward silence.

"Don't worry once he's gone you'll be free! We just have to lay low for the next few days." Said Mabel.

Before anymore could be said Dipper entered the room announced.

Dipper stared at the boy band .

"Did you kidnap Sev'ral Timez?" he asked.

"Kind of…" said Candy.

"It's a complicated story." Said Mabel, "Wait… why aren't you busy with something? You were so distracted last time!"

"It has to do with Wendy." Said Dipper.

"Oh… so you're not distracted." Said Mabel.

"Wendy never dated Robbie in this timeline so I'm not busy." Said Dipper.

Mabel sighed.

"We have a really good reason for freeing them." Said Mabel.

"Tell me." Sighed Dipper.

And so the three girls told him about the truth about the boy band.

And his reaction was… well…

"I don't know if I should be suspired by this or not…" he said.

"Yeah…" said Mabel.

"This all happened last time?" asked Dipper.

"We couldn't keep him with the manager." Said Mabel.

"They were in a giant hamster cage!" said Grenda.

"Okay… that is really bad." Said Dipper.

"He's going to be arrest soon so we can just set them free like last time when that happens." Said Mabel.

"Set them free? What does that mean?" asked Dipper.

"Release them into the woods! So they can be free." Said Grenda.

Dipper face palmed when he heard that.

"They are humans… even if they are clones." Said Dipper, "They have thoughts and feelings…"

Mable noticed that one of them tried to do something he wasn't supposed to and stopped him.

"Are they like that all the time?" asked Dipper.

"Yeah… they don't know how to function very well…" said Mabel.

"To be fair they lived their lives in a cage." Said Candy.

"And you set them free into the forest." Said Dipper exasperated.

"Well what else are we going to do with them?" asked Grenda.

"I'm telling Stan." Said Dipper.

Don't!" cried Mabel.

"Give me a good reason why we shouldn't tell him?" asked Dipper.

"He's make them write tell all books about being pop stars and clones." Brought up Candy.

"You know he would." Said Mabel.

Dipper was about to say something but realized yeah… Stan would try to make that into a scam.

"Okay… we'll him and Ford at the same time." Said Dipper.

"Yeah he'll make sure that Stan doesn't do that." Said Mabel.

"Good idea." Said Candy.

And so they told both of the Grunkles.

They were only mildly surprised by this fact.

"You know I'm not really surprised the music industry dropped this low." Said Ford.

"Wait! You're the only why there were beautiful men constantly rummaging through my trash last time?" asked Stan.

"Yeah…" said Mabel, Candy and Grenda at the same time.

"Either way we can make a fortune from them! They need to write tell all books!" said Stan.

All but the clones groaned at this reaction.

"Stanley." Sighed Ford.

"That's exactly why I didn't want to tell you!" said Mabel.

"I don't think they can even write." Said Grenda.

"We are not doing that." Said Dipper.

"What's a Tell All Book?" asked one of the Boy Band members.

"Fine…" grumbled Stan.

"So what should we do for them?" asked Mabel.

"You know… this might be a more prevalent problem that you might think… perhaps we must conduct more research." Said Ford.

"Wait you don't mean…" said Mabel.

"I volunteer to venture onto the internet." Said Ford.

They all stared at him.

"I'll help him." Said Candy.

Everyone nodded in agreement.

Still they would be housing the cloned boy band until their manager was arrested in this timeline.

Still they had to talk to the other in on it.

"Dude! Seriously!" said Wendy when she found out.

"Yeah." Said Dipper.

"What were you doing last time this happened?" asked Wendy.

"I was focused on something involving something else." Said Dipper knowing it was better not to mention it.

Wendy just shrugged.

"Didn't we make jokes about them being clones." Said Wendy.

"I think we did." Said Dipper.

"Does it surprise you that it's true?" asked Wendy.

"Not really." Said Dipper.

Wendy shrugged…

Whenever Pacifica was told.

"are you serious?" asked Pacifica.

"Yeah…" said Mabel.

"We saw the cloning tubes ourselves." Said Grenda.

Pacifica groaned at that.

She then realized two things.

"Wait did he get lazy?" asked Pacifica.

Her eye twitched and decided to look up a certain boy band on her hone…

"Are you kidding me!" said Pacifica.

"What?" asked Mabel.

"Look… they look exactly like Lance Bass." Said Pacifica.

"Looks like we found who their cloned from." Said Grenda.

"But why all him?" asked Mabel.

"Probably he was lazy and that that only boy band member's DNA he could get his hands on." Said Pacifica.

"You'd think Boy Band DNA would be easy to get… expect for Justin." Said Grenda .

"I know right!" said Mabel.

"Also maybe it was so they wouldn't get distracted by women." Said Pacifica.

"What?" asked Grenda.

Mabel then whispered something to Grenda.

"Oh… that…" said Grenda.

"No I just think he was lazy. "said Mabel with a shrug.

"Yeah… he seemed lazy." Agreed Grenda, "Like I already have one boy band DNA, why not just copy it…"

"I see…" said Pacifica.

Although McGucket was interesting…as he was a fan of the band… oddly enough.

"They're a bunch of clones?" he asked, "I throaty they were secretly brothers…"

There was an awkward silence as this news…

"Well that interest'…" said McGucket.

Mabel just shrugged off his reaction.

Though Mabel did this time around have a boyfriend so she had to clear some of the awkwardness with keeping a Boy Band.

"So you don't have feelings for them?" asked Mermando.

"Beyond celebrity crushes and platonically? Nope!" said Mabel.

"Celebrity crushes?" asked Mermando.

"It's a human thing where you have a crushes on famous people but everyone knows it's not going to go anywhere so no one really cares." Said Mabel.

"Ah…" said Mermando.

He still had a learn to learn about life on the surface after all.

But thankfully after a ton of studying online Candy and Ford had discovered something…

"The Pop Clone Rehabilitation Center?" asked Mabel.

"You know…that makes way to much sensed that it exists." Said Dipper.

"Yes." Said Candy.

"We did several checks and it's real." Said Ford.

"Oh… neat." Said Mabel.

"SO I'm guessing it's a common problem." Said Wendy.

"It's also in Japan and Korea." Said Candy, "The Korean one is recent…"

"We weren't able to discern the Japanese one very much." Said Ford.

"(But I was able to confirm both the American one and the Korean One…)" Candy said in Korean.

"I'm going to guess you said something about confirming its existence." Said Dipper.

"yes." Answered Candy.

"Now we just have to wait until for the announcement of the chub chub man's arrest." Said Mabel.

That was when they heard choking noise upstairs.

"The Greggy C! I forgot about the tape dispenser!" said Mabel.

"Do we want to know?" asked Ford.

"He tried to eat it." Said Grenda.

"Why did you want to send them into the woods if they gave you this much trouble?" asked Dipper.

"They live longer than I thought they would so..." said Candy.

"I have so many questions about that." Said Dipper.

Candy just shrugged.

Thankfully they got news less than an hour later about his arrest.

And they got in contact with the Pop Clone Rehibition Center.

"I knew that Bratsman cloned Sev'ral Timez… he wasn't even subtle about it!" said the person on the other end.

"Yeah…" said Ford who was the one told to talk to them.

"Are they safe?" asked the person on the other end.

"From the public yes… from themselves… My niece is making sure they don't eat their not supposed or getting hurt." Said Ford.

"That's sounds like a really bad case… were they treated like humans or disposable animals?" asked the person the other end.

"From what my niece and her friends found, disable animals." Said Ford, "Kept them in a giant hamster cage."

"Oh dear… this sounds like it's going to take years." Sighed the person on the other end, "We'll send over their new manager."

"Manager?" asked Ford.

"Unfortunately part of the process is easing them out of the pop star life style… Cloned pop stars can't just leave it would raise too many questions… unless they have an epic breakdown…" said the person on the other end, "This is an open secret in the industry but the public doesn't know… or at least not very well… still the next year or their career will be winding down."

He did have to break the news to the girls.

"They have to go back to being pop stars?" asked Mabel.

"It makes sense in a twisted way…" admitted Candy, "They would have to go on farewell tours and final albums…"

Mabel pouted.

"But from the looks of it they will soon live the livers that they want to live… adept at being has beens." Said Stan.

"I guess that makes sense." Said Mabel.

And of course the day soon came to send the Clones to their new lives.

"Thank you so much Mabel!" said one of them.

"You took care of our ouchies." Said another.

"And made sure we didn't choke too much." Said a third.

"Yeah…" said Mabel clearly sad that she had to part with them again.

But she knew from last time it was for the best.

"Don't worry." Said the new manager who was a very kind looking woman, "Once they're done with being popstars you can visit her as much as you want."

"Really?" asked Mabel.

"Of course!" said the new manger, "Plus you can keep in contact."

"You know I think this might be a better outcome than last time." Said Mabel.

"You did a good job Mabel… I know you did technically kidnap them but we at the Pop Clone Rehabilitation Center ignores it because sometimes it's the only way to free them." Said the new manager.

Mabel smiled at this…

"Wait… before we leave can we explore the forest for a bit?" asked one of the boys.

"Of course." Said the new manager.

For the half hour, the new manager how her hand full making sure that they didn't get hurt… or blinded from the sun… or other things…

But on the bright side… she would have a friendship with the boys.

Once again a happier outcome than what happened last time.

Plus Wendy was never hypnotized this time around so that was a double win.

Next Time: Ford wants to go see the Dinosaurs now that the pterodactyl shows up again. Will it be a fun adventure or will something crazy happen? Probably something crazy...