(At the Gravity Falls Forest)
The mystery shack team, having made their way to the forest after being turned into matryoshka dolls, are now jumping up and down instead of wobbling as they search for the cave. Dipper is leading the way while the rest follow him or look around, mostly both at the same time.
"Okay, so, I just have so many questions flowing through my head right now." spoke Wendy, looking around as she listed her questions. "Can we nest inside each other? Are we really made of wood? Will anybody recognize us in these forms?"
"We can answer those questions later. The main priority is to find the main cause of this problem-" spoke Dipper.
"As in your foolishness?" asked Mabel, raising an eyebrow.
"The other main cause of this problem, touch it, and then get out before it self-destructs." finished the boy, giving his older sister a glare before he added, "If only I had my flashlight with me. We would be able to find the cave faster."
"No fingers, remember?" reminded Stan to the boy, who frowns in response.
"We don't have arms either but nobody has mentioned that yet." uttered Soos.
"You just mentioned it, Soos." stated Stan, giving the man a deadpan look.
"Oh, yeah, I did!" exclaimed Soos in oblivious joy.
Everybody halt their movement as they feel something about to happen, and surely enough the ground starts to shake as they turn forward to see a strange shadow going to them. "Somebody's coming!" exclaimed Dipper, turning to the panicked team before he finished. "Quick! Act like you're inanimate figures!"
The team stood still as the figure walks to them and reveals itself to be Old Man McGucket's son, Conrad "Ranger" McGucket holding a plastic bag. He only wasted a few seconds seeing the matryoshka dolls before he lifted and put them in his bag.
"Hmph, maybe this will work." remarked Conrad, walking to the exit of the forest. "Everybody would be greatly weirded out if my dad brougth anything that has quality anyway."
"Did he just called us low quality?" thought an offended Dipper as he was put in the bag.
(Outside the Forest)
Conrad comes out of the forest and walks to his car, opening the door and sitting on the driver's seat before closing it. He put the bag containing the shack team at the back seats, the group getting out of them before the car turns on and drives away. Using some other stuff in the seats as platforms, they reach the back windshield to see the forest.
"Oh no! No, no, no, no, no! Darn it, he's driving the wrong way!" said Dipper as the card drove away, the image of the forest getting farther and farther away as it left. "And we're going away, and away, and away...we'll definitely need to jump quite a bit before we reach the forest again."
The car hit a bump in the road and the team fell off, hitting the ground and feeling a bit dizzy before they shook it off. "Where is he even taking us to?" asked Soos, looking around as he and the rest got up.
"He's probably going to take us to a place no doll or toy ever comes back, a place where the sight of the sun shining becomes nothing but an illusion, where the nastiest scum of the earth see as nothing more than low-quality toys that were made for their leisure." suggested Wendy with a dramatic tone. "They'll probably grab us, throw us, feed us to the animals or worse! For them, we will be nothing more than objects of entertainment! They'll use us in anyway they can to amuse themselves, and there won't be anything we can do about it!"
Stan, Soos and Dipper look at the teenager with shock before some sniffing is heard, turning around to see Mabel about to cry. "I don't want to be used and abused like a low-quality toy!" cried Mabel, tears flowing down her face as she moved to Stan.
"Good job Wendy, you made my sister cry!" scolded Dipper to Wendy, who was hit by the boy before he jumped to his sister.
"What? I thought some drama would be nice." replied Wendy with a genuinely remorseful tone.
"Don't worry Mabel, we're not going to be low quality toys." told Dipper to his sister while comforting her. "Or at the very least, we won't be abused or used in the way a certain someone implied."
"Well, technically we can't be sure until we arrive to wherever the guy's leading us." spoke Soos. "Seeing that it's ranger McGucket we're talking about, he's probably going to give."
"Thanks Soos, now we have a genuine reason to be concerned!" sarcastically answered Dipper as his sister came out of Stan.
With that said, everybody remained silent as they waited for the car to get to...wherever it was going.
(Meanwhile, back at the Mystery Shack)
Valerie and Waddles were at another room, Waddles grabbing and taking out a white bed sheet to show the "remains" of an earlier exhibition: the Cornicorn. Seeing it causes the woman to shout in joy.
"It is the fabled remains of the cornicorn!" exclaimed Valeria in shock, checking out the pony-shaped robotic skeleton as she continued. "I heard that they had eaten it and left only the corn and a funny looking skeleton behind, but to actually see them..."
And then something else caught the woman's attention.
"Umm, Mr. Pig, do you mind?" asks Valerie, earning Waddles attention. "I have to go out for a while, but I'll return as soon as I can to end the tour. Promise!"
Valerie went running to the back door, stopping just as she grabbed the doorknob and turning to see Mabel's staff-sword laying on the wall. "Huh, this could help me a bit." remarked Valerie as she grabbed the hybrid weapon.
After checking the weapon for a moment, the woman opened the door and walked out of the tourist trap, closing the door just as Waddles went running to catch her. Waddles stops just before hitting the door and he stands idle for a few minutes before he continues his aimless wandering.
(Gravity Falls Flea Market, Parking Lot)
The ranger's car stopped at the parking lot, the team realizing this and acting like inanimate figures as Conrad opens the door. When he goes to grab the bag, however, he shakes his head and frowns once he spots the shack team out of it, quickly putting them back on before he gets out.
Once out, he sighs before he turns and sees his father, Old Man McGucket, standing behind him with a goofy smile. "Here you go dad, some dolls for the flea market." said Conrad as he handed the old man the bag containing the team.
"Thanks son!" loudly said Old Man McGucket, waving goodbye as Conrad went back to his car and left as soon as he got the chance.
Once the car left, Old Man McGucket used his teeth to grab the bag and then took a doggy-like position, jumping from car to car until he managed to jump over the fence where the market was.
(At the actual Flea Market)
Old Man McGucket lands in the middle of the market and he briefly catches the attention of the other people in there, but somebody says "Don't worry, It's just McGucket!" as the man gets up, the people returning to their business as McGucket grabs the bag from his mouth and walks to his booth, "Gucket Artifacts".
Once there he turns the bag upside down, causing the team to fall off and hit the desk as McGucket throws the bag away. McGucket notices the dolls laying around, so he puts them up and next to each other in a big-to-small vertical line. "Huh, he took us to the flea market." remarked Dipper as he looked around.
"NO! ANYTHING BUT THAT! ANYTHING BUT THE FLEA MARKET!" screamed Stan in horror, with his screams sounding highly similar to a little girl's.
"Well, at least we won't be used as toys here." said Mabel in relief.
"Just wait until you understand the situation! In this place, we'll be sold in relatively low prices that we don't deserve! Who knows what else could go wrong this day?" and then Stan and the rest of the team were overshadowed. "Wait, who's overshadowing me?"
The group turn around and, to their horror, the one overshadowing them was none other than Pacifica Northwest, who fails to notice the shack team looking at her. "Pacifica?!" exclaimed the team in unison.
"Okay I'm a really rich, really bored gal who has nothing better to do other than waste the money my father gave me." started Pacifica as she took out 50 dollars from her pocket. "Tell me good sir...picklefort?"
"Fiddleford McGucket." answered Old Man McGucket proudly.
"Yeah whatever." replied Pacifica, rolling her eyes before she continued. "Sir McGucket, what low to medium quality items do you have today that I can buy?"
"Well, I have the matryoshka dolls you can see in my desk." said McGucket, gesturing to
"I think these ones remind of someone, but I can't quite guess who." remarked the rich blonde as she scratched her chin, turning back to the man once she thought long enough. "I want them, they'll be good things to destroy when I play with Tiffany and Frankie."
"DESTROY?!" exclaimed the horrified shack team.
"How much do they cost?" asked Pacifica as she reached for her pockets.
"There is not a single person who would ever let a rich brat like her buy wooden toys just to destroy them! Nobody's that nuts!" snarled Mabel as she gave the girl a furious glare.
"20 dollars and they're yours!" stated McGucket as Pacifica took out her wallet.
The team's looks changed to frustrated frowns as Pacifica gave Old Man McGucket the money, Pacifica grabbing a bag and putting the shack team inside it one by one. "Then again, McGucket's the one selling us." said Dipper before he too was put in the bag.
After buying the shack team Pacifica walked out of the flea market and went to her family's sedan, a butler opening the door for her so she could go inside. Once in the butler closed the door, and the sedan drove away as the girl remained oblivious to the movement in her bag.
"Well, that didn't went as good as I expected." spoke Dipper, the rest replying with a sarcastic "no, really?" in unison. "But hey, it could have been worse."
"Yeah? How?" asked Stan.
"We could have been brought by Gideon." answered Dipper.
Mabel cringed at the thought, followed by the remaining members of the shack. "That definitely would have been worse."
(Northwest Manor)
The sedan arrived at the manor and parked near the entrance, the butler turning the sedan off before he came out and opened the door for Pacifica, who came out as soon as she could. After that the girl went to the entrance, which automatically opened, and she walked to a table with an umbrella just as the entrance automatically closed itself.
Once she arrived at the table, she whistled and catched the attention of two girls relaxing on the spot: one dark-skinned and one redhead. "Hi girls, I brought some new toys for you to destroy." greeted Pacifica, waving her beg as she spoke.
The girls got off their chairs and eyed at the bag with pleased looks. "At last, something new to destroy!" remarked Frankie as Pacifica walked to her and Tiffany. "We were starting to get tired of destroying the Wolfman Bare Chest novels."
"YOU MONSTERS!" screamed Mabel and Wendy in shock.
"So, what exactly did you brought us today?" asked Tiffany.
Pacifica went to the table and turned the bag upside down, shaking it so that the shack team fell down and hit it. "These funny looking things I brought at the flea market." answered Pacifica, scratching her chin and thinking as the girls checked the team out. "I don't really know what they are, but for some reason they remind of someone."
"Matryoshka dolls!" exclaimed Tiffany, leaning closer to the dolls.
"You know what these things are?" asked Pacifica, raising an eyebrow in genuine shock.
"Yeah, my dad made a fortune with these dolls!" replied Tiffany, grabbing Dipper and hugging him as she continued. "Granted, they're not nearly as popular as when I was younger and are only seen occasionally, but nevertheless they still bring me beautiful memories of my past. Do we really have to break them? I have a better idea."
"Vaporize them?" asked Frankie in excitement.
"No, the idea doesn't involve breaking them." the redhead and blonde whined in disappointment as the shack team sighed in relief. Tiffany then took out from her back a small catapult, placing it near the team before she added, "But it does involve a catapult."
Frankie and Pacifica both raised an eyebrow in confusion as the shack team feared for the worst. After a few minutes, the team were thrown by the catapult high enough to go past the manor's fence, with their screams being unheard by the girls.
"Goodbye, magnificent matryoshka dolls." gently voiced Tiffany as she and Frankie waved goodbye at the shack team. "Hopefully you will find a new master to own you, play with you and consider you a good toy for the rest of your usage!"
"Break apart as loudly as possible when you hit the ground!" requested Frankie.
"I'll go find some new toys." snarled Pacifica as she went back to the sedan with a slightly annoyed look on her face.
(Back with Valerie)
The woman was finishing adding something on a cave at the forest, putting her hands on her hips and humming proudly once she finished. What she had put was a sign that read "Cave of Matryoshka" in black letters.
"There, that should make this place easier to find." remarked the woman before throwing away the hammer and grabbing the staff-sword. "Now to go in and reclaim what I lost a long time ago."
(Back with the shack team)
The team tried to remain calm as they continued to fly across the sky aimlessly, not seeing an end to their flight anytime soon. After a while, they started to descend, and they closed their eyes as they waited for the inevitable fall...and they then landed on top of a truck's load of matryoshka dolls, falling down and only feeling minor discomfort upon hitting the ground.
"At last we land on something, I thought we were going to fly forever!" complained Stan before looking around. His tone changed to confusion once he noticed where they were. "Wait, we're surrounded by other matryoshka dolls? Who would order so many of these things?"
"For that we need to know where we're going. We could be going to the house of an unknown person, or we could be going to the house of one of our biggest enemies...barring Pacifica's, which would be redundant." recapped Dipper, turning to the rest of the team afterwards. "What do you guys think?"
The rest started to think about a possible destination, but for the most part they were unable to think of anything. When Wendy got an idea and was about to speak, Dipper stopped her and let her down gently.
"Sorry Wendy, but we don't need unnecessary drama for the moment." told the boy to the teenager.
Wendy frowned and turned away from the rest as the team continued to think. The truck started to slow down and the other matryoshka dolls shaked for a bit once it stopped altogether, the team jumping to the border and looking down to see where they had landed: the Gleeful residence, much to their complete and utter horror.
"NOOOOOO-!"
(5 seconds later)
"OOOOOOO-!"
(Another 5 seconds later)
"OOOOOOO!"
By the time the team finished it was too late: they were already being transported to a shooting range in the backyard by Bud, holding the box containing them and other matryoshka dolls. "Wait, why do the Gleefuls have a shooting range in their backyard!?" questioned Dipper.
The team passed a sign reading "approved by Gideon Gleeful", and once they arrived at the range itself, they saw Gideon holding a slingshot and being near a stock filled with rocks. "That more or less explains it." remarked Mabel in a sarcastic tone.
"Oh, the matryoshka dolls I ordered have finally arrived! Put them at the range while I check my ammunition." said Gideon, his father obeying his order and placing the team at the range as he checked his rock stock. However, he gestured him to stop once he saw Mabel. "Wait, that one reminds of my dear Mabel."
"I won't let you hurt her!" proclaimed Dipper.
"Relax, Dipper, you must remember that Gideon is totally obsessed with me. I can rest assure you that even if I'm not the Mabel he's used to see, he won't hurt me at all." told Mabel to her brother with a smile.
"Nope, forget it, put her with the others at the shooting range. It's not like she's the real deal anyway." replied Gideon, giving his father a dismissing wave.
Mabel's jaw dropped as Bud walked to the shooting range and got ready to place the girl in it. "Son of your mother!" cursed Mabel as she was put in place near Dipper and Stan.
Now with everybody placed, Gideon grabbed a rock and got ready to throw it, the team hoping for a miracle as the boy grinned maliciously. And then seemingly out of nowhere, a woodpecker flew down and started to mess with his hair, distracting him long enough for the shack to jump off and flee. Gideon shooed the bird and groaned in frustration before throwing away his slingshot, which hit Bud, and walking back home.
"Hooray! The woodpecker saved us!" exclaimed Soos as the bird went to the team, changing his tone to a worried one as the shack team escaped just before the woodpecker attacked them. "Gah! The woodpecker betrayed us!"
The shack team continued to run away even after the woodpecker, jumping to a box filled with some broken toys and catching their breath. Strangely enough, the team didn't seem to notice the broken parts. "Did the woodpecker leave?" asked Mabel. "Are we safe now?"
They then felt the box being grabbed, and they peeked out to see they were being put in the back seats of a car. The door to the backseat closed and the team turned to see a familiar face going to the driver's seat: Mrs. Gleeful.
"Okay, relax." told Mrs. Gleeful to herself, taking a deep breath before she grabbed the hand wheel. "All you have to do is go to the forest, throw away this stuff, and then enjoy as much as you can before you return home."
"The forest!" exclaimed Dipper in joy.
"At last we'll get to turn back to normal!" said Mabel, jumping up and down in excitement.
The team jumped up and down and cheered in joy, catching the attention of Mrs. Gleeful. She looked back and noticed the box, including the shack team standing still like inanimate figures, and shrugged and went back to the driver's seat after checking.
(At the Forest)
Mrs. Gleeful parked at the start of the forest and opened the doors, grabbing the bag containing the team and taking it out with her as she left the car. Once out in the wilderness, she swung the box and the items inside were sent flying, the team being lucky enough to land away from the broken dolls. "Ouch!" the team exclaimed once they hit the ground.
The team got up and, with Mrs. Gleeful failing to notice them, left as soon as they could. "Okay, we managed to get back to the forest at last. Let's move on before we end up in outer space or something." remarked Dipper as he lead the way.
"I actually would like to end up in outer space." uttered Mabel with a wide smile.
"Don't test your luck, kid, we have gone through enough already." told Stan to the girl.
The girl started to think about the rest of the day and, with a worried look, she replies "Yeah, you're right." in agreement.
It doesn't take long for the team to arrive at the cave, with them immediately noticing the sign above the entrance. "Dipper, last time you checked the cave, did it had that sign?" asked Mabel.
"Who cares? Let's go inside and find the artifact before anything else happens!" answered the boy, narrowing his expression.
(Cave of Matryoshka)
The team went in and followed Dipper to the location of the Doll of Matryoshka, looking at the cave's scenery as Dipper focused on finding the artifact. Once they had arrived to the resting place for the doll, however, they instead found an open path with five mine carts connected to rails. "The artifact is gone!" exclaimed Dipper.
The shack look in horror as they wonder what to do next. They see a white glow occurring deeper into the cave, they see the mine cart and they get an idea of what to do next.
"Come on, everybody! We're going to find that thing no matter what!" proclaimed Dipper as he and the rest went to the small mine carts. "For the Mystery Shack!"
"For the Mystery Shack!" exclaimed the rest once they got on their mine carts.
With that said, the mine carts somehow moved, the team cheering as they went deeper inside. From the shadows, some gnomes appear and see the team have already left with the mine carts, their leader-Jeff-seeing it and getting an angry look in response.
"They won't get to the doll!" stated Jeff with a stern tone.
