Tambry continued to scream as she knocked on the glass of the television, leaving everyone else in the group, speechless, and filled with fear by what was happening right now. "TAMBRY!" Andrew shouted, "TAMBRY!"
"CAN YOU HEAR US!?" Dipper yelled. Though Tambry didn't have appeared to have heard them, as she looked around in the television with confusion.
"What are we supposed to do!?" Nate said filled with panic.
"I don't know man!" Lee said to him filled with panic as well, "I don't know!"
"Let's just go already!" Robbie yelled, pointing over to the door.
Wendy turned over to Thompson, "THOMPSON! LET'S GO!"
Though Thompson couldn't find himself the need to stop; he just kept on dancing as the game kept on going. "Wait, I've almost got the high score!" He said to the group. Just like that, Thompson had suddenly vanished, and suddenly found himself within the game itself.
"Uh… What?" Thompson stammered.
"It's time to shake what your mama gave you!" The game announcer said.
The arrows came raining down on Thompson; a lot of them were hitting him right in the back and head. Thompson tried to dodge them but it was to no avail. "NO!" Thompson exclaimed, "SO MANY ARROWS!"
"You're a dance machine!" The announcer said.
"NO YOU'RE THE DANCE MACHINE!" Thompson cried out, trying to block the arrows.
"THOMPSON!" Wendy exclaimed.
"FORGET HIM, LET'S JUST GO!" Robbie shouted.
Wendy and Andrew quickly ran to the door and tried to get it open; to there surprise however it was locked.
"Guys it's locked!" Wendy yelled. Robbie grabbed a hold of the cash register, "OUT OF MY WAY!" He threw the cash register to the door, but it had just disappeared as it came in contact with the glass.
"It's them!" Mira exclaimed, putting her arms around herself as she shook with fear, "It's the ghosts! We've aggravated them!"
"Okay, everybody calm down!" Dipper said, before pulling out the journal from his vest; he turned to the pages that had information on ghosts, "The ghosts in this place have to have some kind of reason! Maybe if we can figure out what it is, they'll let us out of here!"
Robbie had his doubts about this, "Uh-uh, they'll let us out of here!" Robbie said doing an impression of Dipper, before saying sarcastically, "Yeah, that makes a lot of sense."
"I don't know guys, maybe he has a point!" Wendy said.
"Yeah, he might be going somewhere with this!" Andrew added.
Lee then said with sarcasm, "Yeah, right, I'm sure the ghost wants to talk about his feelings." Everyone jumped, when they saw Lee had vanished suddenly. They spotted him a moment later when they saw him on the front of a cereal box.
The cereal box mascot had said to Lee as he held his spoon, "I'M BONKERS FOR EATING YOU ALIVE!" The whole group had covered their eyes, when Lee was stabbed with the spoon. "LEE!" Nate shouted, before backing up and saying nervously, "Okay, okay, I'm with you kid, a hundred percent man."
From behind, Mabel had suddenly floated up into the air. Her body and eyes glowed an eerie light.
"Welcome." She said with a deep voice.
The whole group screamed when they saw this happen. "NO, MABEL!" Mira exclaimed.
"THEY GOT HER!" Dipper shouted soon after.
"Welcome to your graves trespassers." The ghost said through Mabel, before laughing and making Mabel kick her legs as she did.
"We're super sorry about wrecking your store!" Wendy said to the ghost.
"We'll never come back here, we swear!" Andrew said to the ghost.
The ghost gave it some thought before saying, "Well… Okay. You can go." With a snap of Mabel's fingers, the doors of the shop had opened. Mabel flew past them and went over to where the hot dogs were. "But before you go, hot dogs are now half off." The ghost said cheerfully, "I know it might be crazy, but you gotta try these dogs!"
Robbie and Nate, let out a scream and ran for the open doors; though the doors had suddenly closed shut.
"JUST KIDDING ABOUT THE HOT DOG SALE!" The ghost yelled.
"JUST LET US OUT ALREADY!" Nate yelled at the ghost.
"LET US GO YOU GHOSTLY JERK!" Robbie shouted.
"I don't like your tone!" The ghost said. Mabel's eyes started to glow, and Nate had suddenly vanished, as did Robbie. They both suddenly reappeared in the hot dog machine. "OH NO! WE'RE HOT DOGS!" Nate shouted; Both him and Robbie screamed.
"ROBBIE! NATE!" Andrew yelled.
"It begins." The ghost said through Mabel as it made everything float to the ceiling, including the group that remained. They all fell onto the ceiling and everything in the store with it.
"Welcome to your home, for all eternity!" The ghost said making everything spin.
Dipper, Mira, Andrew, and Wendy let out a scream as they dodged the flying objects around them. "Dipper what do we do!?" Wendy exclaimed not noticing a shelf flying towards her.
"DUCK!" Dipper yelled pushing Wendy to the ground.
Andrew soon spotted a tipped over ice machine, "Quick in the ice machine, it's our only chance!" He said to them. They ran to the ice machine and went into the cabinet, and Andrew had shut the door behind them.
"Why are they doing this!?" Andrew said, "What do they want from us!?"
"Revenge I think?" Mira suggested.
"What did we ever do to them!?" Wendy said.
"Okay, okay, let's try to figure out the pattern." Dipper said to them, "Each person was taken, why was each person taken?"
Mira said to them, "Let's see… Tambry was texting, Thompson was playing a videogame, Lee was being sarcastic... Agh! I can't make it out, this all just too random!"
"It doesn't make any sense!" Andrew said.
"Yeah, I mean that's all just normal teenage stuff!" Wendy said. Dipper and Mira's eyes widened in realization; both were thinking the same thing. "Wendy, say that last part again." Dipper said.
"Normal teenage stuff?" Wendy said with confusion.
"Dipper that's it!" Mira said.
"Yes, of course!" Dipper said, "Wendy, Andrew stay here! We'll be back!" He turned to his sister, "Mira, let's go!" Mira nodded and took his hand; they both gotten out of the cabinet holding each other's hands. "DIPPER! MIRA!" Andrew exclaimed.
"WHAT ARE YOU GUYS DOING!?" Wendy yelled. Dipper and Mira approached the ghost in possession. "HEY GHOST!" Dipper shouted getting his attention. The ghost turned Mabel around; the light surrounded both Mira and Dipper and they floated off the ground.
"THERE'S SOMETHING WE GOTTA TELL YOU!" Mira shouted to the ghost.
The ghost was prepared to take them both out; just when it looked it would be the end for them-
"WE'RE NOT TEENAGERS!" Dipper and Mira both shouted, both of them squeezing their eyes shut. They heard many objects fall to the ground, when they opened their eyes, they saw that there was not one, but two ghosts; two elderly ghosts to be exact one of them holding Mabel by the hair. They both had name tags, the elderly man having Pa on his, and the elderly woman having Ma on hers.
The elderly man who was named Pa laughed, "Well, why didn't you say so?" He dropped Mabel and she landed in the pile of snacks; She groaned as she sat herself up in the pile of snacks.
"How old did you say you two were?" Pa asked them.
"We're…" Dipper said hesitantly seeing as how Wendy was watching, "We're twelve…"
"So we're technically not teens." Mira said playing with her braid, "Which begs the question… Why do you hate teens so much?"
The elderly woman named Ma had replied, "When we were alive, teenagers were a scourge on our store!"
"That's right." Pa added, "Always sassafrassin' customers with their boomboxes, and disrespectful short pants! So we decided to up and ban them, but they retaliated with this new fangled rap music."
"The lyrics were so hateful." Ma said, at the end of all she soon said brightly, "It was so shocking that we were stricken down with double heart attacks. That's why we hate teens so much. Don't we honey?"
Both Ma and Pa nuzzled each others noses; Dipper and Mira both turned to each other, before looking back at the ghosts.
"But they're our friends." Dipper said, "Isn't there anything we can do?"
"Anything that might be to your liking?" Mira asked.
Pa scratched his chin, "Well, there is one thing… Do any of you know any funny little dances?"
Dipper sort of stammered at this, "Is… There anything else we can do?"
"NNNNNOOOOOO!" Pa yelled his whole body riddled with flames, causing Dipper and Mira to jump at this.
"Okay! Okay!" Mira said trying to calm Pa down, "My brother does know this one dance that you may like."
"Well… I know the…." Dipper started to say, though he really didn't want to say it, "The Lamby Lamby Dance… But I can't really do it without a lamb costume!"
Pa snapped his fingers and Dipper was in a lamb costume; make-up in all. "Oh… And there it is." Dipper said before sighing, "If I'm going to do this… Mira, give me a beat."
"Got it." Mira said holding up her thumb.
She took her ocarina from around her neck and started to play the Lamby Dance song, while Dipper began to sing and dance at the same time.
Well~
Who wants a lamby, lamby lamby?
I do! I do!
So go up and greet your mammy, mammy, mammy
Hi there! Hi there!
So march, march, march, around the daisies!
Don't, don't, don't you forget about the baby!
With a wink and a smile, the song came to an end, as Mira put the finishing note on it. Pa and Ma had seemed to have enjoyed themselves at the sight of Dipper dancing. Pa clapped, "That was some fine girl dancin' boy! Your friends are free." The doors to the store had opened and Pa snapped his fingers again, so that Dipper was in his regular outfit again.
"Welp, I don't think you have to worry about us coming here ever ag-huh?" Mira said before getting cut off. Both the Ma and Pa ghosts had vanished without a trace. With them gone however, everything started to fall to the ground along with them. They all screamed as they fell back down to Earth; The whole group seemed to go back to normal.
Dipper and Mira spotted Mabel, still recovering from the Smile Dip, and the fact that she was possessed; they both went over to her.
"Mabel, are you okay?" Mira asked helping her off of the floor.
Mabel let out a groan as she held her head, "Ugh… I don't think I'll eat anything ever again…"
Dipper noticed a packet of Smile Dip on the floor; he picked it up, "Hey, there's still some Smile Dip left in here."
"EVIL!" Mabel exclaimed, smacking it out of his hand.
The teens had recovered from the shock and went over to Wendy and Andrew. "Agh…" Lee said, "What happened after everything went crazy?"
"You guys are not gonna believe this!" Wendy said, "The ghosts showed up, and Dipper had too-"
Andrew stopped Wendy in mid-sentence, and gestured over to Dipper, who was looking in her direction. She saw the look on his face, seeing that he had a hopeful look on his face, just hoping that she wouldn't say a word.
Wendy didn't know what to say to her friends, but Andrew had gotten her covered. "What she's saying is the ghosts had come out of nowhere and Dipper grabbed a nearby bat and just started to beat them around like pinatas."
Wendy got the idea and went along with it, "He beat them down left to right and the ghosts got all scared and ran away like a bunch of scared little girls, it was insane!"
All the teens mummered in amazement at this story. Dipper smiled at the fact that Wendy and Andrew had just covered up what he really did to save them just so that he would look cool in front of their friends. Wendy turned to Dipper, and zipped her lips as she smiled back at him.
Everyone had decided to call it a night and headed back to the van, where everyone had just fallen asleep. "Well, I'm probably scarred for life." Wendy said.
"Yeah, it was pretty crazy in there." Dipper said.
"I think I'm gonna go stare at a wall and RETHINK EVERYWHERE." She said, "The next time we hang out, let's hang at the Mystery Shack, okay?" Dipper had gotten excited at this, "Next time! Ye-yeah sure, next time!" Wendy went to sit in the front of the shotgun of the car. Dipper couldn't help but let out a chuckle as his face turned red.
"Awww, and you said that you didn't like her." Mira said, nudging Dipper's elbow.
Dipper rubbed the back of his head, "Well… I might like her a little… Well come on, let's get back to the Shack." Dipper climbed into the back of the van; Mira was about to follow behind when she heard someone crying. Mira turned and saw the same little eight year old girl, sitting on the curb of the sidewalk provided as she cried. This time she got a good look at the eight year old girl. The little one had short black hair wearing a brown knitted hat. She wore a simple open green and grey hoodie with a brown t-shirt under it, and she had on a pair of blue jeans and grey sneakers.
The little one looked up and she saw that she had the odd eye color of blue and brown. Mira kneeled down in front of her. She couldn't help but wonder what she was crying about. Than in the palm of her hands she saw the little one was holding what appeared to be a pair of glasses.
"Glasses?"
She heard the little one speak with her voice cracking a little, "Why…?"
"Huh?" Mira looked at the little girl.
"First daddy… than mom… and now…" The little one said, with her hands shaking, "He didn't mean it…He just… Why did it have to turn out like this…?"
"I-I don't understand…" Mira said reaching out to comfort the little girl, "What are you…" She let out a gasp when suddenly she saw the child's skin turn to ice. Mira couldn't help but back up slightly as she watched in horror what was happening to the child. The child finally looked up to Mira, with her face half frozen.
"Why…does everything have to change…?" The child said, getting as she dropped the glasses. She walked over to Mira; She tried to move from the child, but found herself restricted from movement. She looked down and saw chains, like before around her ankles.
"Wha- No! Not again!" Mira said horrified by what was happening. Two more chains sprung out from the ground and latched onto her wrists, pulling her to her knees. The child was soon in front of Mira as her body turned as pale as snow.
The girl said something to her, in words she couldn't understand.
"nehw eht sniahc era nekorb, dna htrae emoceb yks, raef eht tsaeb htiw tsuj eno eey."
The child reach out to Mira as the child turned into an ice sculpture. The child reached out to her chest and-
"Mira? Hey Mira wake up!"
Mira's eyes had shot open and she suddenly found herself in the back of the moving van with her brother and sister. She darted her head back and forth, seeing as how one minute she was at the convenience store, just ready to leave than the next minute she was there.
"Wha-what happened?" Mira asked
"What do you mean what happened?" Dipper said, "We stopped a pair of ghosts from hurting our friends, and than you fell asleep suddenly. It was super weird."
"I… Fell asleep?" Mira asked.
"Yeah, like I said, it was super weird." Dipper said, "Did you get any sleep last night?"
Mira replied stammering a bit, "Ye-yeah, I'm fine. I got plenty of sleep last night. Though your right, it's super weird. I don't even remember going to sleep." They heard Mabel groan next to them, still trying to recover from the Smile Dip. She looked to the graffiti and saw what she had written earlier.
"What kind of a sick joke is this?" Mabel groaned.
"But I thought you wrote that…" Dipper said.
"I would've remembered that…" Mabel said. The car soon came to a halt and they found themselves at the Mystery Shack. Andrew, and the triplets exited the van; Andrew had brofisted Wendy. "See you tomorrow at work?" He said.
"Yeah, sure man." Wendy said with a wink of an eye, "See you guys tomorrow!" With that the rest of the gang of teens drove away. "Alrighty cousins, who wants to watch a movie before bed?" Andrew said.
"I guess a movie would take our minds off of what just happened tonight." Dipper said.
"So long as it's not a ghost movie." Mira said.
"No ghost movies scouts honor." Andrew said to them, "Don't worry, I've got the perfect movie in-"
Andrew stopped in mid-sentence when the TV had suddenly flew out the window, which stopped them in their tracks. "What the…?" Andrew said.
They saw Stan stick his head out of the window. "Grunkle Stan, why did you throw the TV out the window?" Mira asked.
"Uhhh…" Stan said, not making eye contact, "Couldn't find the remote." He pulled his head back through the window.
"... Anyone up for a board game instead?" Andrew asked.
The triplets looked to their cousin and said awkwardly, "Sure."
Next time on Adventures of the Pines:
House of Wax