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This is going to be so much fun! Landing here was perfect. I can't wait to see what other adventures we'll have! I just have to make sure I don't tell them what will happen.
Dipper and Mabel were sitting at the table. They held up syrup bottles. "Are you ready for the ultimate challenge?" Asked Mabel.
"I'm always ready!"
"Then you know what this means!"
"Syrup Race!" They said. They flipped the tops open and aimed into their mouths.
"Go Sir Syrup!" Said Mabel.
"Go Mountain Man!"
"Go! Go! Go!" They said.
"Almost." Said Mabel. Cassie walked in. "Almost!" She tapped the top of her bottle to make the drop fall. "Yes!" She swallowed, and coughed. "I won!" She continued coughing as Dipper grabbed the news magazine next to him. Mabel patted her chest.
"Yeah, you won." Said Cassie. "By tapping your bottle, that is."
"Eh, she always does that." Said Dipper. He saw something interesting. "No way! Hey Mabel, check this out!" He showed her what he saw.
"Human sized hamster balls?" Asked Mabel. She gasped. "I'm human sized!"
"No no, Mabel, this." He pointed to the other page. "We see weirder stuff than that every day. We didn't get any photos of those gnomes, did we?"
"Nope. Just memories. And this beard hair." Mabel showed it to Dipper, who backed away.
"Why did you save that?" Mabel shrugged. Stan walked in.
"Good morning, knuckleheads! You three know what day it is?"
"Um, happy anniversary?" Guessed Dipper.
"Maffletof!" Said Mabel.
"Your family fun day?" Asked Cassie. Stan went to smack Dipper with his newspaper, but stopped.
"How did" he started. "You know what, I'm not gonna ask. Yes, it's family fun day! We're cutting off work and having one of those, you know," he opened the fridge and sniffed the carton of milk, "bonding type deals."
"Grunkle Stan, is this going to be anything like our last bonding day?" Asked Dipper. Everybody was brought back to that day. Mabel shivered.
"The county jail was so cold."
"Alright, maybe I haven't been the best summer caretaker, but I swear that today, we're gonna have some real family fun! Now who wants to put on some blindfolds and get into my car?"
"Yay!" Said Dipper and Mabel.
"Wait, what?" Asked Dipper.
"Am I allowed to come with?" Asked Cassie.
"Eh, sure. Why not? But you have to put on a blindfold too."
"Okay."
Strange things taking place
Nowhere to hide, nowhere is safe.
Weirdness is in every case.
But our smarts combined
will solve every puzzle faced.
That is a guarantee!
The car drove past a deer, and Stan reached down to grab something. Dipper and Mabel were shifted to the side as the car drifted while Cassie grabbed onto the first solid thing she could. "Blindfolds never lead to anything good." Said Dipper.
"Wow, I feel like all my other senses are heightened!" Said Mabel. "I can see with my fingers." She rubbed Dipper's head. He tried to push her away, until they hit a bump that made everybody in the car jump.
"Grunkle Stan, are you wearing a blindfold?" Asked Dipper.
Stan laughed. "No, but with these cataracts, I might as well be." He stared ahead. "What is that, a woodpecker?" He ran through a fence and Dipper and Mabel screamed. The car went down a small cliff.
"Here we go!" Said Cassie. The car hit the bottom and shot forward. It jumped over a small boulder and landed in a parking lot.
"Perfect!" Said Stan. He parked and everybody got out. "Okay, okay, open them up." All three grabbed their blindfolds.
"We're at the fishing season opening day, aren't we?" Asked Cassie. The three removed their blindfolds. "Yep."
"Ta-Da! It's fishing season!"
"Fishing?" Asked Mabel.
"What are you playing at, old man?" Asked Dipper.
"You're gonna love it. The whole town's our here!" Stan turned to the water.
"Here fishy fishies." Said Lazy Susan. "Get into the pan."
"Say cheese!" Said Toby Determined as he took a picture. The person he was taking a picture of fell into the water.
"Uh, is this good?" Asked Marcus. He held out his pole.
"No!" Said Manly Dan. He grabbed it and snapped it. "I'll show you how a real man fishes!" He reached into the water and grabbed a fish. He laughed. He threw it into the boat and began punching it.
"Dad! Dad! Dad!" Chanted the three boys with him. Tyler Cutebiker pulled up next to them.
"Get 'em! Get 'em!"
"That's some quality family bonding." Said Stan.
"Grunkle Stan, why do you want to bond with us all of a sudden?" Asked Dipper.
"Come on, this is going to be great!" Said Stan. "I've never had fishing buddies before. The guys from the lodge won't go with me! They don't like or trust me."
"Isn't that well deserved?" Asked Cassie.
"That's besides the point!" Said Stan. Mabel looked at Dipper.
"I think he actually wants to fish with us."
"Hey, I know what'll cheer you dad sacks up!" Said Stan. He grabbed two hats and put them on the twins. "Pines Family fishing hats!" Dipper and Mabel took their hats off and looked at them. "That, that's hand stitching, you know." Mabel's l came off. "It's just going to be you, me and those goofy hats on a boat for ten hours!"
"Ten hours?" Asked Dipper.
"I brought the joke book." Said Stan.
"No! No!" Said Dipper.
"There has to be a way out of this." Whispered Mabel.
"I seen it!" Yelled someone. "I seen it again!" Old Man Mcgucket began running on the beach. He ran through a few people and smacked someone's sandwich out of their hands. Someone grabbed a calculator as Mcgucket ran by. Mcgucket then grabbed someone. "The Gravity Falls Gobblewonker! Come quick before it scrabdoodles away!" He did a small jig and slapped his knee. The twins walked up.
"Aw, he's doing a happy jig." Said Mabel. Mcgucket turned her to him.
"No! It's a jig of great danger!"
"Hey! Hey!" Someone came out of the cabin with a spray bottle. "Now what did I tell you about scaring my customers?" He sprayed Mcgucket. "This is your last warning, dad!"
"But I got proof this time, by guttegy!" He showed everybody something. "Behold!" It was a broken boat. "It was the gobblywonker what done did it! It had a long neck like a t-rex! And wrinkly skin like, like this gentleman right here!" He pointed at Stan, who was rubbing in his ear.
"Huh?" He took out a chunk of earwax.
"It chopped my boat up to smitheroons! It shimshammed over to Skuttlebutt Island!" He pointed to an island shrouded by fog. He then grabbed his son's arm. "You gotta believe me!"
"Attention all units." Said Sheriff Blubs. "We've got ourselves a crazy old man." Almost then entire crowd laughed. The only ones who didn't were Dipper, Mabel, Stan, Cassie and Mcgucket's son. His son looked down and shook his head.
"Oh donkey spittle!" Said Mcgucket. He walked away, followed by the crowd, except Dipper, Mabel, Stan and Cassie.
"Well that happened." Said Stan. "Now let's untie this boat and get out on this lake!" He stepped down into his boat.
"Mabel, did you hear what that old dude said?" Asked Dipper.
"Oh donkey spittle." Mimicked Mabel.
"The other thing, about the monster!" Said Dipper. "If we could snap a photo of it, we could split the prize 50 50!" He pulled out the news article. Mabel gasped.
"That's two fifties!"
"Imagine what you could do with 500 dollars!" Mabel thought about getting the human sized hamster ball, mocking a hamster, running through a wall, and just being her. Dipper started snapping. "Mabel. Mabel?"
"Dipper, I am one million percent on board with this!"
"Grunkle Stan, change of plans." Said Dipper. "We're going to take the boat to Skuttlebutt Island, and we're gonna find that Gobblewonker!"
"Monster hunt!" Chanted Dipper and Mabel.
"Monster hunt!" Said McGucket. "I'll go." He walked away as something honked. Soos pulled up with a large boat.
"You dudes says something about a monster hunt?"
"Soos!" Said Mabel.
"Whassup hambone?" He and Mabel did a fist bump. "Dude, you could totally use my boat for your hunt! It's got a steering wheel, chairs, normal boat stuff." He patted the side. Stan stood up.
"Alright, alright, let's think this through." Everybody looked at him. "You kids could go waste your time of some epic monster fighting adventure, or you could spend the day learning how to tie knots and how to skewer worms with your Great Uncle Stan!" Mabel and Dipper looked at Soos, who began doing the robot. Then they looked at Stan, who wiggled his eyebrows and sniffed his armpit. Then they looked at Skuttlebutt Island.
"Well, I'm just going to say this now, wherever they go, I go." Said Cassie. Mabel and Dipper looked at each other and smiled.
"So what do ya say?" Asked Stan. Everybody went with Soos and he honked as he pulled away. Stan was stunned.
"Yay!" Said Mabel. "We made the right choice!" Stan got a bit mad.
"Ingrates!" He called. "Ah, who needs them? I got a whole box of creepy fish lures to keep me company." Flies buzzed around the lures. Stan quickly closed the box. He looked back across the water at Soos's boat.
"Hoist the anchor!" Said Dipper. Soos pulled the chain and brought up a cinder block. "Raise the flag!" Mabel held up a towel that said 'fun'. "Hoist the sail!"
"What sails?" Asked Cassie.
"We're going to find that Gobblewonker!" Said Mabel.
"We're gonna win that photo contest!" Said Dipper.
"Do any of you dudes have sunscreen?" Asked Soos.
"We're gonna go get sunscreen!" Said Dipper. Soos turned the boat around quickly.
"Yay!" Said Soos and Mabel. Under them, something lurked. After they grabbed sunscreen, they got back on the boat. Dipper began pacing.
"Alright, if we want to win this contest, we've gotta do it right. Think! What's the number one problem with most monster hunts?"
"You're a side character and you die within the first five minutes of the movie." Said Soos. He thought of something. "Dude, am I a side character? Do you ever think about stuff like that?"
"I can assure you you're not." Said Cassie.
"No no no." Said Dipper. "Camera trouble. Say Bigfoot shows up. Soos, be Bigfoot." Soos took a step and made a strange face. "There he is! Bigfoot! Uh oh, no camera! Oh wait, here's one! Aw, no film! You see, you see what I'm doing here?" Mabel and Soos nodded.
"That's why I bought twenty one disposable cameras!" Said Dipper. "Two on my ankle, three in my jacket. Four for each of you. Three extras in this bag. And one, under my hat. There's no way we're gonna miss this! Okay everybody, let's test our cameras out." Soos took a picture of himself, making him flail his arms and toss the camera overboard.
"Whoa! Dude!"
"You see?" Asked Dipper. "This is exactly why you need backup cameras. We still have twenty." A seagull flew over Mabel.
"Ah! Bird!" She threw her camera at it and it landed in the water as well.
"Nineteen. Okay guys, I repeat, don't lose your cameras."
"Wait, lose the cameras?" Asked Soos.
"Don't!" Said Dipper.
"Dude, I just threw two away." He pointed at where they were floating.
"Seventeen! Alright." Said Dipper. "We still have seventeen cam" he brought his fist down, breaking another one. "Sixteen. We have sixteen cameras."
"So what's the plan?" Asked Mabel. "Throw more cameras overboard or what?"
"No!" Said Dipper. "No. Okay. You'll be lookout. Soos can work the steering wheel. And I'll be the captain."
"What?" Asked Mabel. "Why do you get to be captain? What about Mabel, huh?"
"And what do I get to do?" Asked Cassie.
"Mabel! Mabel! Mabel!" Said Mabel.
"I'm not sure that's a good idea." Said Dipper.
"What about co-captain?"
"There's no such thing as co-captain." Said Dipper.
"Oh, whoops." Said Mabel, throwing another camera overboard.
"Okay! Fine! You can be co-captain."
"Can I be associate co-captain?" Asked Soos.
"As co-captain, I authorize that request." Said Mabel.
"Well, as first co-captain, our number one order of business is to lure the monster out with this." He gestured towards the barrel of fish food.
"Permission to taste some?" Asked Soos.
"Granted." Said Dipper.
"Permission co-granted." Said Mabel.
"Permission associate co-granted." Said Soos. He grabbed a flake.
"You're not going to like it." Said Cassie. Soos licked it. He spit overboard and started grabbing his tongue. Everybody else laughed.
"Dude, I don't know what I expected that to taste like."
"Anyways, what can I do to help?" Asked Cassie.
"Well, uh." Said Dipper. He snapped his fingers. "I've got the perfect job for you! Since you're the only one who hasn't lost or broken a camera, you'll be the head picture taker!"
"I can live with that." Said Cassie. Stan looked over at them again.
"Traitors! Ah, I'll find my own fishing buddies." He looked around, and saw two people alone. "Ah!" He fired up the motor. "There's my new pals!" He motored over to them. One of them held a box. He looked inside it and saw a very special ring. He took a deep breath.
"Now that we're alone, Rosanna, there's a burning question that my heart wises to ask of you."
"Oh, Reginald!" Rosanna looked to the side.
"Hey! Wanna hear a joke?" Asked Stan. Reginald was about to reply. "Here it comes! My ex-wife still misses me, but her aim is getting better!" He swung his arms. They didn't laugh. "Her aim is getting better!" Still no response. "You see, it's funny because marriage is terrible." Rosanna crossed her arms and Reginald rowed away. "What?"
The boat continued to move as Soos scooped the fish food into the water. Mabel was playing with a pelican. "Hey! How's it going?" She opened the bird's mouth. "It's going awesome! Bow bow, bowbowbow!"
"Mabel, leave that thing alone." Said Dipper.
"Aw, I don't mind none!" Mabel grabbed a glass. "Look! I'm drinking water!" She grabbed the bird's beak again and began drinking. "Twinkle Twinkle" Mabel began choking as the bird flew away.
"Aren't you supposed to be doing lookout?" Asked Dipper.
"Look out!" Said Mabel. She threw a volleyball at him, hitting his arm. He grabbed it. "Haha. But seriously, I'm on it." The boat shook. "See? We're here! I'm a lookout genius!" Everybody disembarked. "Hamster ball here we come!" They walked onto the island. Dipper led the way with a lantern. Soon, Soos and Mabel saw a sign. Soos thought of something.
"Dude, check it out!" He covered 'Skuttle' with his arm. "Butt Island." They laughed.
"Soos! You rapscallion!" Mabel looked at Dipper and Cassie.
"Hey, why aren't you laughing? Are you scared?"
"Yeah right, I'm not" Mabel poked Dipper's nose.
"Yeah you are!"
"Hey!" Mabel poked his nose two more times. "Quit" she did it again, then started poking him on the head. "Stop! Mabel!" She eventually stopped.
"And what about you, Cassie? Are you scared?" Cassie chuckled.
"With what I've seen, this is nothing."
"What the heck could you have seen?" Asked Mabel.
"It's quite a bit." Said Cassie. Dipper grabbed the journal really quick and looked at the page he had seen not to long ago. He quickly read it, and looked at Mabel.
"You should probably stop questioning her on it. She's probably seen things that would make you hurl."
"Try me!" Said Mabel.
"Well, I've been in a war between two planets for about, let's say, two years. We won that, by the way. Then, despite their leader having been wiped away, he came back and attempted to destroy the entire Earth by boring into its core with gigantic robots capable of crushing all four of us with one finger. Want me to continue?"
"I think we get the picture now." Said Dipper. Something groaned.
"Dude, did you guys hear that?" Asked Soos.
"What was that?" Asked Mabel. She looked at Soos. "Was it your stomach?"
"Nah, my stomach normally sounds like whale noises." Mabel put her ear up to Soos's stomach to hear whale noises.
"Wow. So majestic." A rat came up and grabbed Dipper's lantern. He gasped.
"Our lantern!" The rat ran away with it. "Ah! I can't see anything."
"Dude, I don't know man." Said Soos. "Maybe this isn't worth it."
"Not worth it?" Asked Dipper. "Guys! Imagine what would happen if we got that picture!" He thought about what he would do. Then Mabel broke into the daydream. "I'm in!" Said Dipper.
"Me too!" Said Mabel. They ran off. Soos looked back.
"Don't worry, I won't leave you behind." Said Cassie. Soos looked forward.
"Alright dudes, I'm coming!"
"Let's go!" Said Cassie. They ran after the twins. Soon after, Soos and Mabel got bored. They talked a bit, then Soos dropped a beat.
"My name is Mabel, it rhymes with Table. It also rhymes with Claybel. It also rhymes with shmable."
"Dude, we should be writing this down."
"Guys! Guys guys, hear something?" Asked Dipper. He looked around, then saw a flock of birds all leaving from the same place. "This is it. This is it!" Mabel walked up and the two began tapping each other in the sides. Soos grabbed a pointy stick.
"Don't worry." Said Cassie. "Nothing is as it seems."
"Better safe than sorry." Soos adjusted his hat and followed. Cassie sighed and did the same. They approached a clearing, and Soos stopped them. There was a large shape in front of them. They dove under a log.
"Everyone, get your cameras ready." Said Dipper. Soos gave a thumbs up and Mabel got hers ready. Cassie grabbed hers. "Ready? Go!" Soos ran out, followed by Dipper and Mabel. Cassie followed them, but walked. Soos took pictures as he ran, but as they got closer the fog stopped shrouding it and revealed it to be a broken boat, with beavers living in it. Soos continued taking pictures. Dipper was dumbfounded. "But, but what was that noise that I heard? I heard a monster noise." Something seemed to growl. The group looked over to see it was a beaver playing with a chainsaw.
"Sweet." Said Soos. "Beaver with a chainsaw." He took another picture.
"Maybe that old guy was crazy after all." Said Dipper.
"He did use the word scrabdoodle." Agreed Mabel. Soos continued taking pictures and Dipper sighed.
"Look, when you're threading an line, a lot of people don't know this, but you want to use a barrel knot. That's a secret from one fishing buddy to another." Stan elbowed a small kid and gave a small laugh.
"Uh, I, uh, who are you exactly?"
"Just call me your Grunkle Stan!"
"Sir, sir sir!" Said the kid's mom. "Why are you talking to our son? If you don't leave right now, I'm calling the police!"
Stan laughed nervously. "You see, the thing about that is" he started up the engine and quickly fled.
"Go bother your own kids!"
"Oh yeah!" Said Soos. "Work it, work it!" He was taking more pictures of a beaver. "Nice, nice. Give me another one of those, yeah, I liked that one." He went to take another picture and the beaver jumped away.
"What're we going to say to Grunkle Stan?" Asked Dipper. "We ditched him over nothing." He threw a pebble into the water. He sighed, and watched as his reflection rippled. "Hey, guys, do you feel that?" He fell into the water. "Hey! Hey! Whoa! Whoa!" He quickly climbed out as something splashed. "This is it." Dipper took a quick image. "Come on! This is our chance!" Mabel and Soos backed away.
"Uh, Dipper, you might want to back away." Said Cassie.
"What's wrong with you guys?" Asked Dipper. Something came out of the water behind him.
"Dipper." Said Mabel.
"Dude." Said Soos.
"It's not that hard." Said Dipper. He brought his camera up. "All you gotta do is point and shoot." He turned. "Like this." He saw the creature, then looked up. It roared at them.
"Run!" Yelled Soos. All four ran away. The creature followed them, knocking over a tree. Dipper shoved Mabel out of the way. They rolled and continued running. Another three came down and Cassie got them out of the way. All four continued running.
"Get back to the boat!" Said Soos. "Hurry!"
"This is fun!" Said Cassie. The creature tried to eat Mabel and Soos slung her across his back. Dipper took a picture, and tripped over a root. He dropped his camera.
"The picture!" He attempted to go back for it, but Soos grabbed him.
"Dude, if it makes you feel any better, I got tons of pictures of those beavers dude."
"Why would that make me feel better?" Asked Dipper.
"Would it make you feel better if I said we weren't going to die?" Asked Cassie. She and Soos continued to run. The creature came down at them, but they dodged to the sides and continued running. "Pass me Dipper! We'll go faster if we each take one!"
"Okay dude!" Said Soos. He gave Dipper to Cassie, who put him on her back. She continued running, passing Soos.
"How the heck are you faster than him with me on you?"
"Let's just say that I've had to outrun things far bigger and faster that that creature. A lot." She approached the boat. "Come on Soos!"
"Coming!" He approached as Cassie put Dipper on. Mabel climbed onto the boat from Soos's back. He then climbed on, followed by Cassie. "Let's get out of here dudes!" He grabbed the steering wheel and backed away. The creature followed them.
"Alright, this is it." Said Dipper. He grabbed another camera. "Cracked lens? Soos! Get a photo!" Soos was throwing the cameras at the creature. "What are you doing?"
"Oh, I still got one left! Don't worry dude! Here!" He tossed the camera at Dipper, but it broke against the cabin wall. The creature jumped into the water. Soos reached into the cabin and made the boat go faster. The creature lunged at them, but missed. Cassie grabbed her last camera and grabbed a quick photo for herself before putting it away. A wave pushed them forward and Soos fell into the cabin. We swung the boat around.
"Go go go go go!" Said Dipper. Soos pushed the boat even harder, outpacing the creature.
Stan continued trying to tie a knot when he heard something. "Can you pwease tell me more funny stories poppop?" He looked at another boat to see two kids and a grandfather.
"Anything for my fishing buddies!" Stan got angry.
"Poppop, I just realized, that I love you."
"Aw come on!" Yelled Stan. "Boo! Boo!"
"Hey now! What's the big idea?"
"Maybe he has no one who loves him, poppop."
"Yeah, well I, I" Soos went past him, followed by the creature. The wave drenched the passengers in both boats. Stan threw his hat into his boat, then sighed.
Soos continued driving when Dipper noticed something. "Soos! Beavers!" They chattered a bit. Soos turned his boat sideways, and they rammed through the broken one. The beavers rained down on them and began gnawing on everything. Soos got one on his head and backed away from the cabin.
"Dude!" Mabel grabbed the wheel and began steering. "Owowowowowowowowowowow!" Soos just ran in a circle as Dipper threw the beavers overboard. Soos grabbed at the one on his face, trying to yank it off. The creature dove and followed them from below. Mabel steered them through several smaller boats, which were knocked away by the creature.
"Headlock!" Said Manly Dan.
"Dad! Dad! Dad!" They got washed away by the wave and landed in the waist-deep water. Fish began raining down.
"The fishes! They seek revenge! Swim boys! Swim!" Soos continued trying to get the beaver off of him as Mabel continued to pilot the boat. She swung it around, barely avoiding getting hit by the creature. The creature swung at them, taking off the top half of the boat. Mabel saw something.
"Ah! Look out!"
"Easy, easy." Two guys were moving a piece of glass between two boats. The boat everybody was on smashed through it.
"My glass!" Called the other guy.
"Where do I go?" Asked Mabel. In front of them was a waterfall. Dipper grabbed the journal.
"Uh, go into the falls! I think there might be a cave behind there!"
"Might be?" Asked Mabel.
"Just do it!" Said Cassie. She grabbed the beaver on Soos's face the threw it.
"Thanks dude." He looked forward and everybody screamed. They crashed through the falls into a cave. The boat went aground and tossed everybody off. Everybody looked up to see the creature follow them. Everybody but Cassie screamed, but stopped when they realized it was too big to fit into the cave.
"It's stuck." Said Mabel.
Dipper laughed. "Yeah!" He realized something. "Wait. It's stuck?" He ran to a higher point, then realized he had no more cameras. Mabel took his hat off.
"Boop." He laughed again and took a picture. The creature snapped at him, but couldn't quite reach. Dipper took another picture, then many more. "Did you get a good one?" Asked Mabel.
"They're all good ones!" They hugged. Rubble fell from the ceiling, hitting the creature in the head. A Metallic clang rang out as sparks went over its head. Its neck fell, landing on the water. "What the?" Asked Dipper. He jumped down as the eyes flickered. He jumped onto one of the fins, then touched the hide of the creature.
"What's wrong?" Asked Mabel. Dipper knocked on the hide and it clanged. He started climbing.
"Careful dude!" Said Soos.
"I've got this!" Said Dipper. "Hold on!" He reached the other side. "Hey guys! Come check this out!" Mabel, Soos and Cassie all climbed over it and saw a hatch. Dipper turned the wheel and it unlocked. He opened it, releasing a lot of steam. They began coughing. Inside was McGucket.
"Work the bellows and the eh?" He looked up. "Aw banjo polish!"
"Y, ya, you?" Asked Dipper. "You made this? Wh-why?"
"Well I, I, uh." McGucket looked away. "I just wanted attention!"
"I still don't understand." Said Dipper.
"Well, first I just hootynanied up a bio mechanical brain-wave generator, and then I learned how to operate a stick shift with my beard." He demonstrated.
"Okay, yeah, but why did you do it?" Asked Mabel.
"Welp, when you get to be an old fellow like me, nobody pays any attention to you anymore. My own son hasn't visited me in months. So I figured I might catch his fancy with a fifteen ton aquatic robit!" He laughed, then sighed. "In retrospect, it seems a bit contrived. You just don't know the length to which us old timers go for some quality time with our family." Dipper grabbed his hat and looked at it. Mabel did the same. They sighed.
"Dude, I guess the real lake monster is you two." Said Soos. He laughed. "Sorry, it just boomed right into my head there." Dipper and Mabel looked back at their hats.
"So, did you ever talk to your son about how you felt?" Asked Mabel.
"No sir! I got to work straight on the robit!" A projector came up and showed the plans on the hatch. "I made lots of robits in my day!" The image changed. "Like when my wife left me and I created a homicidal pteradactlytron. Or when my pal Earnie didn't come to my retirement party" the image changed again "and I constructed an 80 ton shame bot that exploded the entire downtown area!" He laughed maniacally. "Welp, time to get back to work on my death ray!" He dropped back down and got to work. He reached up. "Any of you kids got a screwdriver?"
"Well, so much for the photo contest." Said Dipper.
"We still have one roll of film left." Said Mabel.
"What do you want to do with it?" Asked Dipper.
Stan rode back into the pier and sighed. "Hey! Over here!" Called Dipper. Stan looked at him as Soos pulled up next to him. Dipper took a picture of Stan.
"What the? Kids? I thought you two were off playing spin the bottle with Soos!"
"Well, we spent all day trying to find a legendary dinosaur." Explained Dipper.
"But we realized the only dinosaur we want to hang out with is right here."
"Save your sympathy!" Said Stan. "I've been having a great time without ya! Making friends, talking to my reflection, then I had a run in with the lake police. Guess I gotta wear this ankle bracelet now, so that'll be fun."
"So, I guess there isn't room in that boat for four more?" Asked Dipper. Stan glared at them, then they put of their hats.
"You knuckle heads ever seen me thread a hook with my eyes closed?"
"Five bucks says you can't do it!" Challenged Dipper.
"You're on!" He jumped into Stan's boat.
"Five more bucks says you can't do it with your eyes closed plus me singing at the top of my lungs!"
"I like those odds!" Said Stan. Soos stepped into the boat as well. "Whoa! What happened to your shirt?"
"Long story dude." Said Soos.
"I have a bet for you, Stan." Said Cassie. "Five bucks for whoever catches the first fish!"
"You're on!" Dipper grabbed his camera.
"Alright, everybody get together. Say fishing!"
"Fishing!" Said Mabel, Stan and Cassie.
"Dude, am I in the frame?" Dipper took the image with the three that said fishing together and Soos's belly. He later took another image of Stan cheating with threading a hook, then Cassie took an image of Stan saying a joke. Cassie got an image of Dipper getting the first fish. Then an accidental photo of Stan. Soos got an image of Mabel cutting another family's net and grabbing their fish, with Stan's help. Then Cassie got an image of them fleeing from the lake police. They headed back to the pier, but hit something.
"What was that?" Asked Dipper. Mabel shrugged. Cassie tossed her camera back, and something grabbed it underneath the water.
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