Dipper, Mabel, and Steven, were all watching tv in the early morning of the weekend. Steven was sitting on the couch with Dipper sitting on his lap, and Mabel laying down on the floor towards the tv.

"I'm afraid we won't need your services here sir. My men have examined the scene and this is obviously an accident", a British man said on the tv.

"Really?" quacked Duck-Tective," this looks to be MURDER!"

"WHAT!?" the British man yelled.

"Ducktective will come back after these messages"

"What, I'm not impressed."Dipper looked at the tv.

"Are you saying you could outwit ducktective?" Steven looked down at Dipper jokingly.

"Of course I could! From my detective skills I can tell that Mabel was eating… an entire tube of toothpaste?"

"Why did you eat that?" Steven picked Dipper up, setting him back down on the couch taking the tube from mabel.

"It was so sparkly," she looked down with the toothpaste covering her mouth.

"Hey dudes," soos appeared in the doorway," come check out what I found!"

They followed soos through the hallway,"So I was cleaning up when I found a door behind the wallpaper, It's crazy bonkers creepy."

Soos opened the door with a loud creek to reveal a dark room full of wax figures.

"Woah, it's a secret wax museum!" Dipper walked in looking for a light switch.

"There's all so life like," Mabel walked in behind Steven.

"But not this one", Soos gestured to one of them.

"Hello," it said.

Dipper, Mabel and Soos all screamed surprised, ran to the door. Steven looked at them about to say something, knowing that it was just Stan.

"It's me, your grunkle stan!"

The three ran off running as Steven flipped the light switch, laughing.

"Behold the gravity falls wax museum. It was one of our most popular attractions! Before I forgot all about it."

"I've got the whole gang, wax Genghis Khan, Sherlock Holmes, some kind of… I don't know goblin man and my personal favorite, wax abraham linco- no oh no! Who left the blinds open!"

Stan walked over dragging his finger through some of the hot wax. "How do I even fix a wax figure? Let-alone make a new one."

"Cheer up Grunkle Stan, Where's that smile?" Mabel chimed in." Don't worry Grunkle Stan, I"ll make you a new wax figure from all this old wax.

"You really know how to make one of these puppys?"

"Grunkle stan, I'm an arts and crafts master, why do you think I have this hot glue gun stuck to my arm?"

Mabel wiggled her arm trying to get it off. Steven walked over, helping her get it off.

"I like you gumption kid."

"I don't know what that means but thank you."

Mabel was standing in front of the now finally dry brick of wax, ready to carve. Steven was sitting at a stool ready to watch her make it, as Dipper walked by.

Mabel jumped in front of him, "Dipper! What do you think of my wax figure idea?"

Dipper choked on his soda, as Steven patted his back.

"She's part fairy princess, and part horse fairy princess!" She looked at Dipper with excitement in her eyes.

"Maybe you should carve something from real life, like someone in your family?"

Stan walked by with no pants on," Kids have you seen my pants?" He stood on a random briefcase looking out like an adventure as a spotlight seemingly appeared above him.

Mabel's eyes turned into stars, turning around looking at the ceiling," O muse, you work in mysterious ways."

( Yes the O in the sentence is suppose to be there, the subtitles showed that. )

"Why's your sister talking to the ceiling?"

"Honestly," Steven looked over at her,"I have no idea."

Mabel grabbed her chisel's and got ready to carve, ( Steven made her put on safety goggles )

as she started carving, chiseling and painting late into the day.

"I think it needs more glitter," Mabel looked at it.

"Agreed", Soos handed her a bucket of glitter as she tossed it onto the figure.

Stan walked into the room now with no shoes," I found my pants, but now im missing my shoes!"

Stan looked up seeing the wax replica of himself, as it scared him half to death causing him to fall over.

"So what do you think?" Mabel asked him as the 4 walked over looking down at him.

"I think the wax museum is back in business!"

The next day in the early afternoon there getting ready to show to the townsfolk the wax museum, as Soos is directing the cars in with corndogs, ( eating them in the process )

While Dipper and Wendy are at the stand cashing in money for the tickets. Steven, Stan and Mabel are doing the final touches on the stage, getting ready for the show.

"I can't believe this many people showed up," Dipper looked at Wendy.

"I know," Wendy said back, handing a ticket to a customer," Your uncle must have bribed them or something!"

"He bribed me."

Dipper pulled out a twenty dollar bill, and Wendy also did as they chuckled.

Over at the stage the presentation was about to start," You all know me folks," Stan looked at everyone," town doll and Mr. Mystery."

"As you know, I always bring the fair people of this town novelties and befuddlements, the likes of which the world has never known. But enough about me. Behold… ME!"

Soos pressed his soundboard, creating a celebrating sound. 3 people in the crowd slowly clapped.

"And now a word from our own Mabelangelo."

"It's Mabel," she corrected him. Thank you for coming. I made this sculpture with my own two hands! It's covered in my blood, sweat, tears, and other fluids."

Moans of disgust came from the crowd.

"I will now take questions, you there."

"Old man McGucket, local cook. Are the wax figures alive and follow-up question, can I survive the wax man uprising?"

"Um… yes! Next question."

"Toby Determined, Gravity Falls gossiper. Do you Really think this constitutes a wonder of the world?"

"Your microphone is a turkey baster Toby," Steven looked down at him from the stage.

"It certainly is…"

"Next question," Stan sighed.

"Shandra Jimenez, a Real reporter. Your fliers promised free pizza with admission to this event. Is that true?"

The crowd started talking, asking for their pizza.

"That was a typo," Stan pointed out," Good night everyone!

Stan threw down a smoke bomb and ran over to the admission box full of all the money and ran off with it. The crowd angrily walked out ( Trashing everything in the process ), as Manly Dan punched one of the wood beams holding up the banner.

"I think that went well." Mabel looked up at Steven.

"Me and Soos are going to have to clean all of this up by ourselves." Steven thought to himself.

"Hot pumpkin pie!" Stan looked at the cash in his hand," Look at all this cash! And I owe it all to one person… this guy!"

Stan gestured to his wax replica that was standing next to the couch, as Steven gave him a small hit on the shoulder gesturing to mabel.

"Oh, and you to you little gremlin. Now you 3 wash up. We got another long day of fleecing rubes tomorrow."

The three walked up to the bathroom and got ready for bed.

"Hey guys," Mabel looked at them, "wanna do a toothbrush race?"

"Ok." Dipper answered.

Right before they started they heard the scream of stan coming from downstairs. They run down seeing stan looking horrified.

"W-Wax Stan, he's b-been murdered!"

Mabel took one look and dramatically fell back and Dipper stopped her from falling.

" I get up to use the john right?" Stan looked at Blubs and Durland, "and come back and blammo, he's headless!"

" My expert handcrafting, Mabel kneeled down," besmirched. BESMIRCHED!"

Steven kneeled down and gave her a hug as she started crying," Hey, it's going to be ok. I'm here."

"Who would do this?" Dipper looked at the police, wanting an answer.

"What's your opinion sheriff Blubs," Derland looked over at him while writing something down.

"Look, we'd love to help you folks, but let's face it this case is unsolvable." Blubs took a sip of his cup of coffee.

"WHAT?" The 4 looked at them.

"You're kidding right? There must be evidence or motives. You know I could help if you want."

"He's really good, " Steven looked up, "he found out who was eating our tin cans!"

"All signs pointed to the goat, Mabel added.

"Yeah, yeah, Let the boy help. He's got somewhat of a brain up there."

"Woo! Would you look at what we've got here!" Blubs started, " City boy thinks he's gonna solve a mystery with his fancy computer phone!"

"City boy, city boy!" Durland mocked him.

"You are adorable. Look P.J's why don't you leave the investigating to the grownups."

"Attention all units," Durland's radio went off," Steve is about to shove an entire watermelon in his mouth, I repeat, and entire watermelon in his mouth!"

"It's a 2316", Durland called, "Come on let's go!"

The 2 ran off as Dipper grumbled.

"We're going to solve that mystery, and get back that head. Then We'll see who's adorable."

Dipper breathed in some dust as he sneezed," Awww", Steven looked at him with stars in his eyes, "you sneezed like a kitten."

The next morning they got up and used toilet paper as police tape and Dipper set up a board of people's faces and wrote on the top, suspects.

"Wax stan has lost his head, and it's up to us to find it. Dipper walked around as Mabel took a picture on the camera from the last chapter, ( With Steven's help ), "there were a lot of unhappy customers at the unveiling, it could have been anyone."

"Yea," Mabel started, "even us!"

"In this town literally anything is possible, Ghosts, zombies, it could be weeks until we find our first clue."

"Hey look," Steven pointed," a clue."

"Footprints in the shaggy carpet, and they've got a hole in them," Mabel pointed out.

"And there leading to-"

The 3 looked behind the couch to see an axe.

"In my opinion," Soos looked at it," this is an axe.

"Wait a minute," Dipper said, " the lumberjack!"

"Of course", Steven chimed in, " he was pretty upset after not getting the free pizza."

"You mean manly dan, he hangs out at this crazy-intense biker joint downtown."

"Then that's where we're going." Mabel put the axe into a backpack, and Steven took it out.

"I'm going to carry this instead." he looked down at her, knowing that the axe would cut them or something.

"This is amazing," soos exclaimed, "you three are like, the mystery trio!"

"Don't call us that," Dipper looked up at him.

"Can you give me a hand with this coffin," Stan looked at them,"I'm doing a memorial service for wax me."

"No can do," Dipper looked back, "we're going to go interrogate the murderer."

"We got an axe", Mabel pointed to it in Stevens' hand.

"Seems like the kind of thing a responsible parent wouldn't want three doing. Good thing I'm an uncle! Avenge me kids, AVENGE MEEEEEE!"

The three walked into the alley right next to it, as Dipper gave two fake ID's to Steven and Mabel.

"You ready", Steven Whispered.

The 2 nodded.

"Sorry," said the guy guarding the door," we don't serve miners."

"Dagnabbit." A miner walked off disappointedly.

"Hi," Mabel started,"we're here to intearogate Manly Dan for the murder of Wax stan."

He took a look at the ID's they showed them," Works for me."

They walked into the joint looking around. Inside smelled like barbecue and it was disgusting, and there were men fighting.

"Ok," Dipper looked at Mabel," try not to get into trouble, I'm going to go find Manly Dan. Come on Steven."

"Ok," Steven followed.

"Hi fellow restaurant ." Mabel poked a man with lots of tattoos.

"Manly Dan, just the guy I wanted to see." Dipper grabbed the axe from Steven carefully," so where were you last night?"

"I was punching the clock." he continued arm wrestling with the machine.

"So you were at work." Steven looked skeptical.

"No, I was punching that clock!" Dan pointed to the window showing a clock with the pole severely bent with the time on the clock stopping at 10:14.

"10:14," Dipper looked at the clock." well then I guess you don't know what this is!"

"Listen little girl-"

"Actually i'm-"

"I wouldn't pick my teeth with an axe, it's left-handed. I only use my right hand, THE MANLY HAND!"

"Left-handed… Steven let's go."

"Come on mabel, we've got a break in the case!"

Mabel hopped down from the stool running after them.

"It's a left-handed axe, "Dipper started," All we need to do is find one of the suspects that's left-handed!"

"Then we'll have the killer!" Steven picked Mabel up and sat her on his shoulders.

"We are on fire today!" Mabel looked down at Dipper with a smile.

The 3 went around town testing all of their suspects to see which is their dominant hand. Until they came down to the last person on the list.

"Of course, Steven looked at the list," It's so obvious!"

It was later at night when Dipper, Mabel, Steven, Blubs and Durland all came up to one building ready to enter.

"You kids better be right about this," Blubs looked at them through his sunglasses," or you'll never hear the end of it!"

"The evidence is irrefutable!" Dipper looks at them with pride shining on his face.

"It's so irrefutable." Mabel repeated.

They busted the door open," put your hands up! This is a raid!"

"WAH," Toby fell out of his office chair,"what is this? Some kind of raid?"

"Your under arest Toby," Dipper pointed at him," for the murder fo wax Stan."

"You have the right to remain impressed with our impressive detective work." Mabel looked at him.

"Gobbling goose feathers! I don't understand!" Toby looked at them with confusion.

"Then allow us to explain," Dipper started," you were hoping Grunkle Stans newest attraction would be the story to save your failing newspaper."

"But when the show was a flop, you decided to go out and make your own headline," Steven continued.

"But you were sloppy," Mabel looked at him," you were a shabby-shoed reporter who was caught left-handed!"

"Toby determined your yesterdays news," Mabel gave Dipper a fist bump.

"Boy your little knees must be sore," Toby rebutted," From jumping to conclusions! I had nothing to do with that murder."

"I knew it- wait wha?" Dipper looked confused.

"Ha ha, we caught yo- what?" Mabel looked at him skeptically.

"Huh?" Steven looked at Toby wondering what he ment.

( Btw they said this relatively at the same time )

"Well where you the night of the break in?" Blubs asked.

Toby tugged on his shirt with beads of sweat dripping down his face as he got yesterday's security footage. He shoved it into the player and rewinded it to 10:12.

"Finally we can be alone, cardboard cutout of female reporter Shandra Jimenez." Past Toby started kissing the cutout making loud smooch sounds while doing so.

Everyone but Toby looked disgusted and looked away.

"Time stamp confirms," Blubs looked at him,"You're off the hook, you freak of nature."

"Hooray!" Toby proudly said.

"But-But it has to be him! Check the axe for fingerprints!"

Blubs and Durland checked with the blacklight, revealing nothing.

"No prints?" Steven looked in disbelief," but how?"

"Yea," Dipper agreed.

"Hey," Durland looked at Toby," I got a headline for ya, city kids waste everyone's time!"

The 3 laughed at them as Dipper and Mabel looked sheepish.

"Boy, I would be pretty embarrassed if I were you." Toby looked at them as the surveillance tape continued in the background.

"Ok," Steven looked at the twins, clearly upset at Toby, Blubs, and Durland,"let's go."

Dipper and Mabel hopped into Stan's car as Steven turned on the ignition.

"This makes absolutely no sense." Dipper looked out the window peering into the pitch black.

"Yea," Mabel looked over at Dipper," how could it have no prints? It was Obviously used or why else would the foot prints be there?"

"Also," Dipper sighed," Why did the footprints have a hole in them?"

"Steven," Mabel leaned forward," do you know anything about this?"

"If I knew anything don't you think I would have told you?" Steven looked back at them in the mirror. "Hey look on the bright side, maybe we'll find something else back at the shack."

"Yea," Dipper stretched," I guess."

They arrived back at the shack as Stan led them to his parlor where he was having the funeral.

"Kids, Soos, lifeless wax figures. Stan started," Thank you all for coming. Some people might say it's wrong for a man to love a wax replica of himself."

"They're wrong!" Soos yelled.

"Ok calm it down Soos," Stan looked at him as small beads of tears formed in his eyes."

"Wax Stan, I hope you're picking pockets in wax heaven." Stan's eyes flooded with tears as he burst through the door," I'm sorry I got glitter in my eye!"

Soos ran after him crying too.

Dipper sighed," those cops were right about me."

"Dipper," Mabel looked at him,"we've come so far, we can't give up now!"

"Yea," Steven gave him a hug,"listen to your sister."

"But I considered everything! The weapon, the motive." Dipper hopped out of his chair walking to the end of the coffin," wax stan has a hole in his shoe."

"All the wax figures do," Mabel and Steven walked over to him," It's where their pole dealies attach to the stand!"

"Wait," Dipper suddenly realized," what has a holes in its shoes and no fingerprints? Guys the murders are-"

"Standing right behind you."

They turned around to see all of the wax figures starting to move.

Steven stood in front of the twins protectively as they peered at the wax figures from behind him.

"Congratulations my three amateur sleuths. You've umbeurryed the truth! And now we're going to bury you."

"Bravo Dipper Pines," said (wax) Sherlock Holmes, "you've discovered our little secret. Applaud everyone, applaud sarcastically!"

They all started to aplaude sincerely.

"No-no that sounds too sincere, slow clap- there we go, nice and condescending."

"But how is this impossible, you're made of wax! Steven looked at them with a straight face.

"Are you made of… magic?" Mabel walked forward with admiration in her eyes as Dipper pulled her back.

"Mabel, are you crazy? Don't go toward them!" Dipper hissed.

"She wants to know if we're made of magic," Sherlock laughed." were cursed!"

"Cursed," the other figures repeated.

"Where cuced to come to live when the moon is waxing. Your uncle bought us many years ago at a haunted garage sale.

"A haunted garage sale son!" Coolio added.

Very dramatic reenactment from many, many years ago

"I must warn you, these statues come at a terrible price," an older man said to Stan.

"Twenty dollars?" Stan looked at the price tag,"I'll just take them when you're not looking."

"Huh?" the elderly man looked at him.

"I said I was gonna rob ya."

Stan looked back at him.

"And so the Mystery Shack wax collection was born. By the day we would be the playthings of men." Sherlock went on.

"But when your uncle was asleep, they would rule the night." Cooleo inserted.

"It was a charmed life for us cursed beings. That is, until your uncle closed up shop."

( A few years pass by. )

"We've been waiting 10 years to get revenge on Stan for locking us away, but we got the wrong guy."

End of the very dramatic reenactment from earlier.

"So you were trying to murder Grunkle Stan for real?" Dipper eyes widened as they examined everything around him.

"You were right guys," Mabel looked at them, "wax people are creepy!"

"You won't get away with this," Steven growled, wanting to punch the head off of them with his bubbled fist.

"Are you sure? Holmes looked at Steven,"since you know our secret, you must Die."

Their eyes turned back covering their pupils, turning them white.

"What do we do, what do we do?!" Dipper frantically asked while Steven refused to budge from in front of them.

"I don't know!" Mabel panicked.

They started walking towards the three, as Dipper, Mabel and Steven started throwing the objects from the table behind them. Dipper grabbed the coffee pitcher and threw it and the coffee spilled, causing one of the figures to melt.

"That's it! We can melt them with hotty melty things!" Mabel was astonished.

The three looked back at the table, grabbing the 3 fake candles ( that were surprisingly hot, ) and pointed them at the wax figures, walking forward.

"Anyone move and we'll melt you into candles!" Dipper threatened.

"Decorative candles!" mabel added.

"You really think you can defeat us," Holmes looked at them.

"It's worth a shot, I guess."

"I'm not really sure"

"Probably not"

"So be it. Attack!"

Mabel avoided the axe swing of one of the figures, cutting Shakespeare's arms off. She dropped the ( fake ) candle as The arms started to strangle her as she cut the fingers in the door, releasing herself.

"Interview this, Larry king!" Dipper swiped at his neck as it flew off.

"My neck, my beautiful neck," Larry yelled.

Groucho grabbed the candle, as it melted his hand as Dipper sliced right through his body," Jokes on you, Groucho!"

"I heard about a cutting remark, but this is ridiculous!" Grouucho looked down to see himself sliding onto the floor.

Steven was slicing right through lots of the wax figures like it was nothing.

"I guess that sword training with Connie is starting to pay off now," Steven thought.

"All right," Sherlock grabbed the sword hanging on the wall and destroyed the candle Dipper was holding, then Stevens," let's get this taken care of."

Mabel threw them both a hot fire poker as Steven took care of the wax figures that were now terrorizing mabel. For Dipper on the other hand he fought Sherlock one on one as it led up the stairs.

"Once your family is out of the way, we'll rule the night once again!" Sherlock raised his sword.

"Don't count on it!"

Dipper avoided an attack and ran out the window, onto the roof. The fight continued there for a hot minute until leading onto the sign on top of the roof. One of Holmes swings hit the S on the sign as it plummeted into the ground.

"You really think you can outwit me boy? I'm Sherlock bleeding Holmes! Have you seen my magnifying glass? It's enormous!

Dipper climbed on top of the higher up most of the sign and jumped to the other side of the roof, as he slid. He caught himself and hid behind the chimney. He tried to catch his breath until Sherlock kicked him, as the fire poker fell off the roof.

"Any last words?" Sherlock looked dead into his eyes.

"Uh," Dipper paused," you got any sunscreen?"

"Got any wha- no. No."

The sun rose above the tree line as the rays hit them.

"Probably not the best idea to let me lead you onto the roof," Dipper smirked.

"Out-smarted by a child in short-pants? NOOOO, fiddlesticks! Humbugs! It's a total kerfuffle! What a hullabaloo!" Sherlock started to melt into a pile of ooze slowly coming near the edge of the roof.

"Case closed," Dipper dusted his hands off and some got in his face,"Ah-achoo!"

He sneezed, making a small and cute sneeze.

"Ha,ha! You sneeze like a kitten. Those cops were right, you're adorable. ADORABLE!"

Sherlock hit the ground turning into a pile of no-longer cursed piles of wax.

"Eww," Dipper looked down at the pile of mush.

"Dipper," Steven climbed over the sign,"are you ok?"

"Yea im fine" Dipper didn't look away at the pile, yet he was still disgusted.

Steven walked over and looked at it as well,"Grose. That's nasty. Anyway, comeon, Mabel is worrying about you."

Steven put Dipper on his back as he started going over the sign and through the window. Something caught Dipper's eye, in the thick of steven hair he saw two small horns protruding from his head.

"WHAT? What are those? Is Steven hiding something? I need to tell Mabel later." Dipper thought."

"Though our group been cleft in twain, man of wax shall rise again! Shakespeare's head sung to Mabel.

"You know any limericks?" Mabel picked the head up ready to chuck it into the fire.

"Uhhh, there once was a dude from Kentucky–"

"Nope," Mabel chucked it into the fire as it screamed.

Steven and Dipper walked into the room that was full of melted wax and one Mabel.

"Dipper, you're safe!" Mabel looked over at him and ran over to him to give him a hug," you solved the mystery after all!"

Dipper pointed to the wax of Stan's head that was stuck to the taxidermy horn of a rhinoceros. Steven grabbed it and handed it down to him.

"I couldn't have done it without my sidekicks!," Dipper gestured to both of them.

"No offense Dipper, but you're the sidekick." Mabel told him.

"What?Says who? Are people saying that? Have you heard That?" Dipper practically shoved his mouth full with those words.

"Hot belgian waffles! What happened to my parlor?" Stan looked around to see shredded curtains, table cloths, a shattered window, chairs on the floor and wax everywhere.

"Your wax figures turned out to be evil." Mabel looked up at him.

"So we fought them to the death!" Steven continued.

"I decapitated Larry king." Dipper added on.

"You kids and your imaginations." Stan laughed.

"On the bright side though," Dipper threw Stan his wax head,"Look what we found!"

"My head!" Stan caught it!,"Ha,ha! I missed this guy! You did good kids, line up for some affectionate noogying!"

Stan walked over and gave the twins noogies despite their protest.

The cops rolled up to the window and looked through it.

"Solve that mystery yet boy?" Blubs looked at him," I'm so convinced you're gonna to day no that im going to take a long, slow sip from my cup of coffee."

"Actually yes he did!" Steven walked over to the window and pointed to the ( wax ) head.

Blubs almost choked on his gulp and spat it out at durland. Then Durland yelled, causing him to spit it back. They drove off nearly blinded and were screaming the entire way… into a tree.

The 4 laughed at them hearing the crash.

"So, did you get rid of all the wax figures?" Dipper looked over at her.

"I'm 99% sure!"

"Good enough for me!"

Over in the vents Larry king's head looked at them and saw a rat," oh, you're a rat tell me about that."

It stole his ear as he started hopping after it," im hopping, im hopping after a rat that stole my ear!"

Later…

It was later at night when everyone was ready for bed,"Mabel, I have something to tell you."

"Yea, what is it?"

"When Steven came to get me on top of the roof, he carried me over the big sign, right?"

"Yea," Mabel Turned on her lamp,"What about it?"

"Well, in his hair I saw 2 pink horns!"

"Woah, cool!"

"Um" Dipper snapped back," not cool! Steven must be hiding something from us! And I'm going to figure it out."

"Whatever you say dipping-sauce."

"I'm serious! There is something strange about Steven, like for example, how was Steven able to carry both of us while outrunning the gobble wonker? Soos was lagging behind even without any extra weight!"

"You do make a point," Mabel agreed,"well whatever it is, we'll figure it out!"

"I hope so."