Disclaimer: Honestly I was gonna say a time travelling joke for this disclaimer but nobody laughed.

-The sunlight streaked through the clouds over the woods outside of the Mystery Shack. Next to the totem pole, Stan and Mason were busy sealing a small dimensional rift that had spawned and were busy trying to pull the pole into itself. Mabel stood on the sidelines, cradling her pet pig, Waddles, in her arms.-

"I'm surprised these things are still popping up even eight years later." -Mason remarked as they successfully sealed the dimensional rift. Unfortunately for them, when one rift closes, another one opens, which ended up sucking a poor squirrel into it.- "I know, I had to close like twenty four last month alone." -Stan exasperated as they walked towards the newly opened rift and began to seal it.- "Man, I hope that squirrel doesn't get eaten by unimaginable horrors." -Mabel commented as she walked up to them.-

"I'm sure it'll be fine, sweetie. Maybe."

"Hey, Mr. Pines?" -Came Soos' voice as the man in question walked up to the three. He was wearing the Mr. Mystery suit and fez, complete with the eye patch.- "You're needed. The tourists want to see the original founder for a tour and Q and A."

"Yeesh, alright. Tell them I'll be there." -Stan replied, prompting Soos to nod and head back towards the Mystery Shack. Now with responsibilities, Stan hands his alien adhesive gun to Mabel, who tried to juggle both Waddles and the gun before giving up and hesitantly setting Waddles down.- "I've gotta go appease the tourists. You two go into the woods and seal any dimensional rifts you can find."

"Will do." "Come on, Grunkle, you can trust us!" -Mabel grinned and raised the gun into the air, accidentally spraying some adhesive which caught some unlucky bird and caused it to go chirping into the ground.- "... oops."

"Nice going, hot shot." -Stan said as he walked towards the Mystery Shack. Mabel, meanwhile, went to the bird to quickly free it from its sticky purple prison. Luckily, Ford managed to make a reverse function on the gun.-

-Walking through the woods, Mabel begins to hum a catchy tune as she walks alongside Mason, with Waddles following them. Mason seemed uncomfortable about the fact that they were going to seal dimensional rifts with the pig. Again.-

"Are you sure you should be bringing Waddles? We don't want a repeat of last time."

"Oh come on, Dipper." -Mabel nudged her ax, which has gotten a new strap and was currently strapped to her back.- "If anything comes out of it, we can fight them off. Plus, I'll make sure we don't end up going through ourselves. Promise!"

-Mason was at least hopeful that they wouldn't be going on another multiversal trip again. Last time, Mabel, Stan and Ford apparently had to fight an evil doppelganger of Mabel, who he would've had to be twins with if they hadn't been able to beat her. Having dealt with clones himself, he felt glad he didn't have to live the rest of his life wondering why Mabel did a complete 180.-

-When the sounds of the very fabric of the universe tearing rang through the woods, Mason and Mabel both knew it meant a dimensional rift opening. It was strange that these rifts kept appearing well after Weirdmageddon ended, but if Bills statue acted the way it did for who knows how many years, then perhaps the dimensional rifts still appearing wasn't much different. Mason almost wondered if the two were correlated.-

-On their way towards the sound coming from the rift, a gnome could be seen running away from it, accidentally bumping into Mabel's leg, flying backwards from the impact. Mabel, meanwhile, was fine, though she was a bit concerned with whatever just ran into her.- "Oh, I'm sorry, are you okay?"

"No I'm not, you ingrate!" -The gnome said irritably as he got up, holding his head. Once he looked up, though, he seemed familiar to the twins. And they were definitely familiar to him.-

"Wait a minute... you're the Pines twins!" "Oh, Jeff! Hey!"

-Once Jeff got up and dusted himself off, he quickly apologized for running into Mabel, who was quick to deny that he had to apologize. Seeing as they're probably confused as to why he was running, he quickly explained.- "You see, I was minding my own buisness, throwing pine cones at a tree, then whamo! A large rift thing opens up and swallows up my pine cones! And the tree!"

"Why were you throwing pine cones at a tree?" "Well, uh, the gnomes kind of became independent after that whole thing with the gemulets. I don't really have any responsibilities anymore, which is refreshing to say the least! Though it does get boring."

"Uh huh." -Mason looked towards the direction Jeff ran from. The rift is probably somewhere in that direction.- "You mind showing us to the rift? We'll close it for you."

"Oh, yeah! Follow me." -Jeff motioned for them to follow and ran back towards the rift, with Mason, Mabel and Waddles following close behind.- "Also, keep that pig away from me. I'm not pig food."

"Waddles would NEVER eat you! He's a good pig!" "Mabel, Waddles nearly ate all the paper in my binder back in high school." "Oh come on, he was just hungry. Don't blame him for thinking paper is delicious." "Yeah, but I can blame you for feeding it to him!"

-Luckily before they could get into a heated argument about whether Mabel was justified in feeding Waddles her Prom Queen rival's posters, they stumbled into a small clearing where a big dimensional rift was. Just as Jeff said, it seemed to have spawned next to a tree, which was now missing everything except for some roots that had been dug up by the tree being sucked into the rift. Its gravity seemed to be affecting everything else, though not to the same degree as it did to the tree.-

"Wow, that is a big one."

"Yeah, and it nearly sucked me in as well! I'm not that heavy, you know!" -Jeff complained, sort of ignoring the fact that if a tree got sucked into the rift, he wasn't standing much of a chance.- "Well, come on, Mabel, lets seal it up." "Coming!"

-The twins went up as close to the rift as they could without being sucked in and began to seal it from the top with the alien adhesive. Due to its size and apparent instability, it was difficult to close it. As they did so, Jeff sat a good distance away, sitting on top of Waddles as the pig was getting on his nerves.- "You know, gnomes actually aren't that edible. But then again, you're a stupid-"

-All of a sudden, a loud rattling sound emitted from behind them, causing Waddles to become frightened and immediately sprint towards the twins, carrying an unfortunate Jeff along for the ride.- "AACCCKKK!"

"What-?" -Mabel asked as the twins turned around in the middle of sealing the large rift, before being pushed aside by Waddles. The pig, and Jeff, got a bit too close to the rift, and they were quickly sucked into the rift.- "WADDLES! JEFF!" -Mabel yelled as she instinctively ran into the rift, getting sucked inside as well.- "Mabel, NO!" -Mason replied, but it was too late.- "Aw, come on! Not again!" -With no other options, he ran into the rift after them.-

-The rift, instead of immediately transporting them to a random point in space where universes collided, was simply bright blue on the inside. It didn't last long, as the blue eventually became blinding and a large crack sounded, before Mason was eventually spat out onto a hard, cold floor.-

-Mason groaned, and could (thankfully) hear the sound of groaning coming from beside him, both from Mabel and Jeff.- "W-Where are we?" -Mabel was the first to ask, as they sat up and waited for their vison to clear. It eventually did, and as they observed their surroundings, it became quite clear where they were: Fords portal room.-

"T-the portal room? But this was demolished!" -Mason replied as he quickly stood up. Despite it being demolished, the room they were in looked exactly like the portal room. Though oddly with a bit more... satanic imagery, including images of a triangular demon.- "How'd we end up here?"

"HOLY MACKERAL! YOU AREN'T FORD!" -Came a grunkly voice from the portal control room, and through the door, a very elderly man walked down. He wore striped underwear and a white wifebeater that seemed to have been stained yellowish. His chin seemed oddly resembling of Grunkle Stan, along with his big ears, but his hair was snow white and practically bald on top, with the rest of the hair parted to the sides. He seemed to have only four fingers instead of five (wait, did he mention Ford? How many fingers did Ford have here?) and his voice was eerily familiar. In fact, undeniable.-

-The twins stared at him and both of them yelled together.- "Wait... Grunkle Stan?!"

"Wha- Grunkle?" -This alternate version of Stan (hereby dubbed A!Stan for conveniences sake) seemed surprised, and not just by the random adults, a gnome and a pig coming out the portal.- "Hang on, only the twins call me that... who even are you, and why'd you come out of the portal?"

"Twins?" -Mason asked before turning to Mabel. She seemed to have also gathered who the twins might be. They stood up along with Jeff, who A!Stan quickly noticed.- "AH! A MIDGET!" "HEY! THATS SPECIESIST! OR HIGHTIST, I DUNNO!"

"Uh, Alternate Grunkle Stan, that's a gnome." -Mabel replied, picking up Waddles and cradling the pig in her arms. Her response seemed to only confuse A!Stan even more.- "Gnomes? I thought they all turned to stone!"

"Turned to stone?! Well, I'm right here, old man, and I'm CERTAINLY not stone!" -Jeff yelled, clearly offended that he'd be called a midget.- "Yeesh, relax, will ya?! I'm tryna be discreet here!" "Then maybe YOU relax!"

"Guys, chill out, alright?" -Mabel kept the two apart, which prompted both of them to shut up. They didn't stop glaring at each other, though.- "So, uh, funny story. We're actually Dipper and Mabel from another reality." -Mason nodded in response.- "Yeah, though I assume you probably already knew that by now."

"Wait, so YOU'RE the twins as well? Why do you look so old?" -A!Stan asked, more concerned on why they weren't twelve year old's instead of the fact they basically canonized the multiverse.- "Uh, we have a bit more experience, you could say."

"Also what did you mean by 'gnomes turning into stone'?" -Jeff asked, curious. It wasn't like he knew of any way gnomes COULD be turned into stone, after all he would've been stone a long time ago with the other gnomes hating him back then.- "Uh, apparently their leader asked the twins a riddle that was on a freezie pop and they got it right. I guess they all got turned into stone after that. Heard their panicked shrieks from over here." -A!Stan replied casually, disturbing Mason and probably traumatizing Mabel and Jeff.-

"WHAT?!" "Yeah, they even put one out after that last thing broke. Didn't know it used to be alive, though."

-Eventually, Mabel had to carry both Waddles and Jeff, the latter of whom was busy trembling like a traumatized kitten in a thunderstorm as he muttered about not wanting to be turned to stone and used as a lawn ornament for the rest of his pitiless existence. Mabel tried to calm him down but gave up as she had no idea how to comfort a traumatized gnome.-

"Aaaannnyways, so yeah." -Mason spoke, looking around.- "Uh, you know how we even got here?"

"Oh, that." -A!Stan replied, scratching his chin.- "Uh, if I tell you this, mind not telling the kids once you inevitably meet them? I'm trying not to get them into trouble." -Mason and Mabel, who both knew why their Grunkle Stan kept it from them, nodded. They wouldn't tell a soul.-

"So, uh, I'm trying to look for my brother. We kinda got into an argument and I... pushed him into that portal." -A!Stan explained, pointing to the portal. So far, this was exactly like Mason and Mabel's Grunkle Stan.- "So, I tried to turn on the portal today, and then you guys showed up. Heck, I almost thought I've done it, but I guess not."

"Well, it's not much different to my own Grunkle Stan." -Mason replied. A!Stan, hearing this, seemed to perk up.- "Hey, did he ever find his brother?" -Mason and Mabel nodded, which seemed to give A!Stan some hope.- "Then maybe I will, too. Hopefully not dead."

-After this... interesting experience, the twins, Jeff and Waddles were ready to head back. Unfortunately, the rift was a one, way ticket, likely due to the portals connection being severed after their arrival. Seeing as it could be a long time before the portal can be reactivated, A!Stan brought the all four of them up into the rest of the Mystery Shack, under the guise of 'new employees' for A!Dipper and A!Mabel. The twins in question were, at the moment, asleep in the attic. A!Stan seemed to have activated the portal at night, to prevent anyone investigating.-

-The inside of the Shack appeared to be much more Victorian than the Shack they knew, with fancy wallpaper and more furniture. The outside looked just as different, with its purple roof, wacky font and the large neon sign that jutted out of the side. Under the front door, where a golden moose head was hung, a petrified stone gnome sat, looking horribly frightened. It didn't help Jeff's trauma.-

-Right next to the totem pole, a large tree was repurposed as a snacks booth, which was new to the twins. Mason wondered if the bunker could be under, but he didn't think A!Ford would've put a snack booth right over his secret bunker.- "Wow, the Shack looks much different than I remember." -Mabel replied, looking awed at just how... bizarre the alternate Mystery Shack looked.- "Yeesh, its like we're sister realities or something." "Eh, more like cousins in law." "...that's a bit specific."

"So, so, what's this realities Grunkle Ford like?!" -Mabel asked excitedly to A!Stan, who seemed highly uncomfortable.- "Well, judging by how you guys act about him, probably much, MUCH different than your Stanford. That's all I'm gonna say for now." -Mabel didn't seem satisfied, but between A!Stan's uncomfortableness and the implications of what he said about A!Ford, she decided to drop the subject.-

"Uh, I think there's a secret room somewhere in the house I covered up. You guys can sleep there for now." -A!Stan told them as he went into the Shack, with the twins, Jeff and Waddles following suit. A!Stan felt along the wall until he came across a fallen doorknob, where he rips the ragged wallpaper to reveal a door missing its knob. Inserting it and opening the door revealed a room much similar to the one in the twins Shack, though it seemed to have a cultish vibe to it. Faded symbols are all along the walls, and nearly everything seemed to have been already thrown out, with only a bed and the couch with some basic furniture still remaining.-

"I try my best, but those symbols are permanent." -Stan complained, before wishing the twins good night and heading back to his own room. As the twins got settled into the room, with Mason taking the bed (under Mabel's request) and Mabel taking the couch. They didn't take long to get settled due to having literally nothing with them apart from clothing, weapons and two unlucky creatures to take care of.-

"I'm starting to worry for this realities Grunkle Ford." -Mabel confessed as she stared uneasily at the satanic symbols that lined the walls, much of them resembling a triangular shape with a circle in the middle and an upside down T on its head. Need not any one to tell you what that could mean.-

-Mason didn't say a word, because he was getting a feeling A!Ford was more than he seemed. A!Stan seemed uneasy talking about him despite trying to save him, and these symbols certainly couldn't've came after A!Ford went into the portal. Something was fishy with A!Ford, but for now, Mason and Mabel decided to go to sleep. Their sleep schedules will probably be horrible after this.-

[Alternate Twins' POV]

-The sun shown once more on the alternate Mystery Shack, its purple roof shining brightly in the sun. A tired A!Dipper, who differed from Mason in his pre-teens with a plain red shirt and brown shorts, along with more pointed hair at the back, sat at the cash register, silently wishing for death. A!Mabel, who didn't differ much from Mabel at all in her pre-teens, was busy coloring on the floorboards of the gift shop, her braces shining with her grin.-

"Man, I wish something interesting would happen." -A!Dipper sighed as he tried to take his mind off the monotony of running the cash register on a slow day by reading one of his favorite books over the summer, the cheerily named 'Dr. Crackpot's Book of the DAMNED', and flipped through its pages of weird anomalies. Having been living in Gravity Falls for nearly a month, A!Dipper has seen, and learned about, enough strange phenomena with the help of this book. He still has no idea who Dr. Crackpot is, nor why this book was in the Mystery Shack to begin with. It would've been a nifty gift shop item if A!Dipper didn't know the oddities presented in this book were actually real.-

"Well, maybe if you stopped reading that cultic book, you'd learn that interesting things find you!" -A!Mabel responded as she held a finger up in an attempt to look wise. She was immediately enamored when a large pig waddled up next to her and began sniffing her, prompting her to squeal and hug the pig, who simply oinked contently.- "See! I'm a wizard!"

"I think you're referring to a witch, Mabel, and they used to burn people for saying that." -A!Dipper replied casually as he closed the book and set it on the counter, watching the pig with interest.- "Uh, Grunkle Stan?! Who let a pig inside the Shack?!"

"Waddles?" -A faint voice that sounded pretty familiar to the A!Twins called out, and a tall woman who wore sweaters that A!Mabel was highly jealous of walked into the gift shop, walking up to A!Mabel and the pig.- "There you are! Where'd you run off too, huh?"

"*gasp* WADDLES?! THATS SUCH A CUTE NAME!" -A!Mabel screamed excitedly, picking up the pig with mild difficulty and handing it to the woman.- "Where'd you get the cute little guy?!"

"Geez, Mabel, can you turn the decibels down a hundred notches?" -A!Dipper said a bit irritably. A!Mabel apologized while the woman fidgeted a bit uncomfortably before straightening herself out.- "I got him from a fair. I saw him at first sight and knew immediately I wanted him."

"Trust me, she has an unhealthy obsession. I would know." -Came a voice that sounded eerily like A!Dipper, and out from the doorway came a man, who seemed slightly shorter than the woman. He wore a red shirt with a brown coat, and had a trapper hat on his head. From behind him came A!Stan, and someone they didn't expect to see.-

"WHOA! MABEL, A GNOME!" "WHAT?! ANOTHER ONE?!"

-The A!Twins stared at the gnome, who clearly was not stone. And the gnome seemed quite nervous of them, hiding behind the tall man, who just seemed uninterested.- "Actually, he's with us. So don't worry."

-The A!Twins didn't seem very sure, but the two strangers didn't seem to be lying.- "Alright... who are you, anyways?"

"Kids, meet your newest co-workers, Marissa-" -A!Stan motioned to the woman, who awkwardly waved.- "- and Mason." -He motioned to the man, who also waved. A!Dipper seemed suspicious of this, as the man sounded a lot like him and, not only that, had his real name. Perhaps it was just a coincidence, though.- "Oh, Mason. That's actually my name, I just go by Dipper."

"Really? What a strange coincidence." -Mason replied, writing down something in what appeared to be a blue journal. It had the image of a pine tree on its cover, which A!Dipper had on his pine cap. Something told him that wasn't a coincidence, but he couldn't really tell how it couldn't be.- "Yeah, strange indeed."

"Well, I, for one, welcome you guys aboard!" -A!Mabel cheered, hugging "Marissa" tightly. "Marissa" smiled and hugged her back.- "Well, thank you. I'm sure we'll love working here."

-A!Dipper went back to reading his book, but before that, he said "Mabel, you should probably let Marissa go now. You'll suffocate her".-

"Oops sorry." -A!Mabel quickly apologized as she backed away, staring at Waddles as they started to chew on her sweater.- "Oh, yes you CAN keep chewing on my sweater! Hey guys, Waddles is chewing on my sweater!"

"That's great, pumpkin, now how about you two go mow the lawn or something, I got employees to train." -A!Stan dismissed the A!Twins, who both went out. Before they could leave, however, A!Stan glanced over to Jeff and said "Oh, and get rid of the gnome. It's creeping me out!". While Jeff didn't really appreciate the wording, he at least nodded a thanks. He'd rather not have to see it.-

-A!Mabel seemed excited about mowing the lawn and even convinced Marissa to let her take Waddles out with them. She didn't seem to want Waddles too far but couldn't resist the Mabel Pout. A!Dipper, meanwhile, just seemed mildly annoyed that the pig was coming, as he thought A!Mabel would just play with the pig and leave him all the work.-

"Come on, Dipper, it's a pig. What's the harm?" "Fine, but you better be doing work or I'm gonna feed it your sweaters." -The A!Twins bickered with each other as they exited the Shack, with Waddles being expertly carried by A!Mabel despite her never owning a pig. If Mabel's experience in MAB-3L had anything to tell her, its that all Mabel's seem to be drawn to their own Waddles.-

[Twins' POV]

-Once the A!Twins were out of earshot, Mason said "Well, they certainly remind me of us when we were younger". Mabel said that she agreed, and the twins turned to A!Stan.-

"I'm guessing you two already know a thing or two about how to work here, which is good. I don't wanna have to train you knuckleheads a second time." -A!Stan remarked as he checked the cash register and started shuffling the cash before putting it back and closing the drawer.-

-Mason hadn't made it public but he had been a bit curious about A!Dipper manning the cash register, usually Wendy would've done that. Plus, he certainly hadn't seen a Soos around, making him wonder if they had separate shifts or if they simply didn't work here in this reality.-

-Mabel seemed to have found out the same thing, but she was more open about it.- "Say, how come Wendy is on register duty?"

"Wendy? We don't have anyone named Wendy working here." "What? Really?"

-So one of Mason's hypothesis were correct. He guessed Soos didn't work here, either.-

"W-well what about Soos?" "Soos? Like Dr. Seuss? Why would I hire that charlatan? Moron can't even rhyme well."

-Guess Soos wasn't here, either. Also apparently Dr. Seuss in this reality was horrible at rhyming. What a surprise.-

"I'm guessing whoever those are worked with you wherever you came from?" -A!Stan asked, simply having no idea who Wendy or Soos were. Mabel and Mason nodded and explained who Wendy and Soos were exactly. A!Stan didn't seem to recognize Wendy at all, but somehow managed to recognize Soos somewhat.- "Pudgy kid? Looks like a gopher? Yeah, I saw a kid once that looked like that, it was after I threw my last handyman out for smashing a hammer into everything trying to fix them. Last I heard, he mysteriously ran into the woods and disappeared. Suspect he probably died."

-This did not appreciate Mason and Mabel, but since A!Stan never really knew Soos, they decided not to say anything. Mason wondered if perhaps they could try to find A!Soos, if he even survived that long.-

"Either way, I haven't managed to get a new handyman that wasn't a complete moron, so I'm still looking for one." -A!Stan looked out the window to see the A!Twins out mowing the lawn, with A!Mabel being consistently distracted by Waddles. They seemed to be talking, with A!Dipper seeming very suspicious about something. A!Stan hoped they weren't already seeing through their totally clever façade.-

"I wonder what they're talking about." -Mabel pondered as she looked out at them. A!Stan shrugged.- "Probably about the meaning of life. Or birds. I dunno, kids these days."

[Alternate Twins' POV]

-Outside, the A!Twins were busy mowing the lawn. Unfortunately, it was mostly A!Dipper who was mowing, as Mabel kept getting distracted by Waddles.- "I swear, Mabel, if that pig distracts you one more time, I'm bringing it back." "Oh, fine!" -Luckily that seemed to fix the problem. However, A!Dipper had another problem plaguing his mind, and it was about the new employees A!Stan hired.-

"Hey, Mabel?" "Dipper, if it's about the pig-" "No, no. It's about the new employees."

-A!Mabel tilted her head in confusion. What was wrong with the employees?- "Huh? What about them?"

"Do you think something is fishy about them?"

-Mabel deadpanned. Ever since A!Dipper had been reading that stupid book about ghouls and supernatural stuff, he's been paranoid about everything. Sure, they found living gnomes that got turned to stone, then a crazy old coot who made a large fish to terrorize the town because he was lonely, and even a bunch of living wax figures that preached about the end of everything and "stopping the five-fingered freak", who ever THAT is. Like, everyone she knew had four fingers, but A!Dipper really was paranoid about EVERYTHING.-

"Come on, dude. They're just normal people! Stop being paranoid and give them a break."

"Mabel, they LITERALLY popped out of nowhere. I haven't seen them at ALL in town, or anywhere else." -A!Dipper reasoned. A!Mabel wasn't buying it.- "Dipper, they probably just moved here."

"Alright, but not only that, they look almost UNCANNILY like us!" "Dipper, they're, like, in their 20's." "Like older us'!"

-A!Mabel nearly facepalmed. Sure, she thought they seemed similar, but she thought it was just a coincidence. Besides, she wasn't paranoid about everything like he was.- "Dipper, that's just coincidence." "Fine, you can think that, but what about the gnome?"

-A!Mabel paused for a moment. She didn't really have a good explanation for the gnome, as she was there to see all the gnomes turn into stone. He could've just been another type of gnome, he didn't look like any of the gnomes that turned to stone, but she wasn't too sure.- "Uh, maybe he was a different type?"

"I doubt it, I haven't seen or heard of gnomes at all since that day. You SAW them all turn to stone." "W-Well, maybe there are gnomes elsewhere in the world? I mean, they can't ALL be here, right?" -A!Dipper thought of it for a moment. The book said that Gravity Falls was a "melting pot of the supernatural", and that it draws weirdness from all over the planet.- "The book says Gravity Falls draws weird things towards it. I'd bet gnomes would probably be easily affected."

"Geez, its always about that book! Look, I dunno how to explain the gnome but I highly doubt they have any connection." -A!Mabel replied, wishing that'd be the end of the story and A!Dipper would stop being paranoid. Unfortunately, he seemed determined.- "They said the gnome was theirs, so they DO have a connection. I just don't know what."

-A!Mabel groaned slightly.- "Fine, maybe somethings up, I don't know. Let's just keep mowing the lawn, alright?"

"Jeez, fine." -A!Dipper replied, wondering what A!Mabel's problem is. Silently, he kept mowing, his thoughts buzzing with the different possibilities of what the new employees could be. Clearly the gnome was a big problem. He just didn't know how to solve it.-

[Twins' POV]

-Unfortunately, Mason didn't have much better time manning the register than A!Dipper did. Mabel, though seemed to be better off.-

-As time passed, the A!Twins were sent on more and more chores since Mason and Mabel were already doing their jobs for them. This made A!Dipper highly suspicious, as he couldn't quite understand why A!Stan got new employees just to replace him and A!Mabel. As far as he knew, he was doing a good job. A!Mabel, though, he couldn't make a case for.-

-Once the Mystery Shack closed its doors for the night, A!Dipper and A!Mabel were sent to bed, which they protested but didn't get too far. They went up the stairs, leaving Mason and Mabel with A!Stan. Jeff and Waddles took refuge in the twins' room.-

"So, what do you two need?" -A!Stan asked the twins. During the day, Mason and Mabel had decided to tell A!Stan something, and had waited until now to ask.- "We've been thinking, and we decided that we wanted to help you get your brother back."

-A!Stan probably would've done a spit take if he had been drinking something. Luckily, he wasn't, so Mason and Mabel were spared the humiliation.- "What? You want to help me?"

"Of course! You may be an alternate version of our Grunkle, but we want to help." -Mabel replied, her smile seeming to be brighter than before. Perhaps being able to save her Grunkle Ford was making her excited. Mason didn't know how to react, since A!Stan seemed apprehensive about sharing about his brother, but he wanted to be able to help if he could.-

-Now, A!Stan would've hugged the both of them right there and then if he didn't have even a little bit of dignity. Still, he was overly glad about having support in his mission, even if he hadn't expected or wanted it. Besides, he had asked them before about their Stanford, and it seemed like they had at least some experience with the portal, so he thought it'd be better to have help than to go through it alone.-

-He just hoped he wouldn't rope the A!Twins into it. After learning of the lives of the twins, he knew he wouldn't want the A!Twins to go through the same things. But he wasn't sure how long he could keep the act up.-

"Alright, well, I can't really thank you enough for this." "There's no need, we're happy to help." -Mabel, who wasn't quite as focused on her dignity, was happy to give A!Stan a hug, who hesitantly returned it before pushing her off him.- "Alright, alright, enough of the sap. Let's go downstairs." -A!Stan replied, turning towards a bookcase full of very cryptic souvenirs, and pushed aside a snow globe with a skull inside to press a code in a hidden numpad.-

-The bookcase shuttered violently for a moment before slowly opening to reveal the staircase leading to the portal room. The three went into the stairwell and the bookcase closed behind them, the snow globe accidentally falling off and shattering onto the ground.-

-A figure walked up from a separate room towards the bookcase, leaning down to pick up the skull that fell from the shattered snow globe and rolled it around in his hand. Glancing at the bookcase, the figure darts further into the Shack.-

-Down in the portal room, A!Stan messes with the electronics for a moment, stopping to reapply some duct tape that was straining to keep together some of the complex technology that Ford had created.- "So, all the electronic crap is alright, but I need more fuel. I used up much of it trying to test the portal, which brought you two here." -A!Stan explained. Mason and Mabel knew where this could go, and they didn't really care to have to see a version of Stan getting arrested by the government again.-

"Well, I know nuclear waste can be used for fuel." -Mason replied.- "Though, I know this because our Grunkle Stan stole some from the government and got arrested for it."

"That's... lovely."

"Don't worry, we can help!" -Mabel said, seeming quite casual for someone who suggested going into government private property and steal government waste and getting away with it. Then again, she lived with Grunkle Stan, she went through county jail. She can handle anything.-

"Steal government waste? I dunno, that doesn't sound legal and... just kidding, lets steal government waste!"

-The twins and A!Stan stays downstairs for a while to come up with a plan, and later returns to the surface.- "Great. I'll just get Dipper to clean it up." -A!Stan said once they exited through the bookcase and found the broken snow globe. Mason looked at A!Stan, confused, and he clarified.- "MY Dipper."

"Hey, wasn't there a skull in that globe?" -Mabel asked. A!Stan shrugged and said it probably rolled away somewhere. The twins went to their room while A!Stan rearranged some things on the bookcase. A noise came from somewhere in the gift shop, and he turned around quickly, looking around for the source.- "Huh, guess it was the wind." -A!Stan remarked, turning around and going to his room.-

-Behind the register, A!Dipper and A!Mabel look back up to see if A!Stan and the twins have left. After seeing that the coast was clear, they quietly snuck back towards their room, not saying a word to each other until they got back. It seems it wasn't only the newcomers that were more than what they seemed.-

[Alternate Twins' POV]

-The next day came, and the A!Twins were less cheery than before. It wasn't exactly a shocker for A!Dipper, thought with A!Mabel, it was quite noticeable.-

"Yeesh, kid, what's with the mood change?" -A!Stan asked after he gave the two of them a spray bottle and wipe each to clean off the attractions. Luckily, it was the weekend, so the Shack was closed for the weekend. Unfortunately, that didn't stop A!Stan from giving the A!Twins more work to do.-

"Oh, its nothing, Grunkle Stan." -A!Mabel responded. Her voice wasn't very convincing, but A!Stan wasn't going to get into an argument with his great-niece about her mood when she already seems to be in a bad mood.-

"Well, alright." -A!Stan replied, before grabbing a black coat and putting it on.- "I'm going to go out, so don't break any of the merchandise, got it?"

"Yes, Grunkle Stan." -Both A!Twins responded at the same time. Taking this as a promise, A!Stan walked out of the room, leaving the A!Twins on their own.- "AND DON'T GO GETTING HIT BY A BUS! I'M NOT PAYING YOUR MEDICAL BILLS!" -He called out before leaving the Shack.-

"I can't believe Grunkle Stan kept something from us." -A!Mabel remarked after a moment of silence, looking a bit disheartened from A!Stan keeping something from her. Personally, she thought she was trustworthy.-

-A!Dipper, on the other hand, seemed more accusatory.- "He's likely hiding something if he kept it from us. We should look through his room to see if he has the code anywhere." -A!Mabel agreed to this, wanting to know what A!Stan was hiding. She felt like something bad was going to happen, and she wondered why Grunkle Stan was hiding something. Did he want to protect them? Protect himself? Protect something else?-

-A!Dipper, meanwhile, was thinking of WHAT he was hiding. The book said many things about a strange creature Dr. Crackpot had met, and there had been implications of an attempt to shatter reality. Knowing what he knows of supernatural phenomena, he wasn't going to wave it off as nonsense. If A!Stan was planning on using a doomsday device to shatter reality, they needed to stop it. And fast.-

-Marissa and Mason (if those are really their names) were no where in the Shack, which was odd on its own. However, A!Dipper and A!Mabel used this to creep towards A!Stan's room. It had many signs prohibiting trespassing, ESPECIALLY from 12 year old's, but this didn't stop A!Dipper from going in anyways. The room seemed to be quite messy and small, with a large mirror in the middle. Likely to observe himself and fuel his big ego, A!Dipper thought.-

-They began to examine the room and search everywhere. A!Mabel didn't look very hard as she was regretting searching through A!Stan's personal space, but she felt a bit betrayed by him, and wanted answers as much as A!Dipper. After a while, though, she found a closed box, that she took out and quickly opened. The first thing she found made her nearly shriek in horror, which prompted A!Dipper to come over.- "What, what'd you find?"

-A!Dipper needed only one glance into the box to freeze in place. At the top of the box was a newspaper clipping, with a picture of a young-looking A!Stan, with the title "Stan Pines Dead". And right next to it, a code was written: A1BC3.-

-The A!Twins looked at each other. Neither of them could believe it: Stan Pines was dead? Then... who was their Grunkle?- "We better get through that bookcase, fast." -A!Dipper said urgently, and they both ran towards the gift shop, stopping in front of the bookcase. The numpad was quite high, so the A!Twins used a chair to reach the numpad and input the code.-

-The bookcase shook violently and opened, pushing the chair out of the way, and revealing the staircase down. The twins looked at each other and went down the stairs. Whatever was down there, they were getting to the bottom of it. Literally.-

-By the time they got to the bottom, they had been going through their minds, thinking about whatever could've been down there. Some doomsday device, maybe some chained demon of some sort. Neither of them expected what was really down there: a portal.-

-A large portal spanned the entire back wall, triangular in shape with a circular open space in the middle. What was more concerning was the cultish symbols and imagery that spanned the entire room, picturing some triangular demon with one eye. A!Dipper brought out the book (from who knows where he stored it), and sifted through the pages until he got to one detailing a triangular figure with one eye that was predicted to destroy the world.-

"W-What is that?" -A!Mabel asked, staring at the portal through the glass of the operating room. A!Dipper looked up solemnly.- "I think... its a doomsday device."

-A!Mabel, reasonably concerned, turned towards A!Dipper.- "D-Doomsday device? What are you talking about?!"

"There's images of a triangular demon, one that looks very similar to the one in this book." -A!Dipper replied, showing A!Mabel the pages that detailed the demon. The pages seemed to be praising the demon, saying that the device would bring the demon into their realm and tear it apart.- "I think this device... Grunkle Stan, if that's even his name... I think he's trying to bring this demon into our world."

"C-C-Come on, bro. T-This isn't funny!" -A!Mabel said desperately, tears beginning to well up in her eyes. She wanted this to be a nightmare, but A!Dipper's face seemed to tell her that what she wanted wasn't necessarily the truth. She didn't want to believe her Grunkle Stan was dead, she didn't want to believe this stranger who took his name was trying to bring about the end of the world.-

-The A!Twins looked at each other. They were gonna have to stop him from activating that portal, no matter the cost.-

[Twins' POV]

-It would've taken quite a long time for the twins and A!Stan to get the nuclear waste. Getting the hazmat suits, sneaking past security and getting the radioactive waste back to the Shack. By the time they got back, it was nighttime, which was good for them. The A!Twins were likely asleep by now, so they wouldn't be able to see them bring the waste into the Shack and down into the portal room.-

"Alright, lets quickly get this downstairs before the twins wake up." -A!Stan said as they began to wheel the barrels of waste into the gift shop. Once they got the barrels into the gift shop, they opened the bookcase and carried the barrels of waste down the stairs. When they got all four of them downstairs, a pair of figures would slowly follow them down.-

-Unknowing of this, A!Stan would start refueling the portal using the nuclear waste, with help from the twins. They started to warm up the portal, plot the coordinates to hone in on Stanford's position, and watched as the portal powered on, with a timer of 5 minutes until the portal activated.- "Wow, guess this portal gets warmed up faster than ours." -Mason remarked as A!Stan synced the timer to his wristwatch.-

"STOP RIGHT THERE!" -Came the voice of A!Dipper, who along with A!Mabel, stood at the entrance of the stairs, glaring at the three.- "Wha- kids?!" -A!Stan turned around, horrified. The twins also turned around, not having expected the A!Twins to have figured it out so fast.- "I-I can explain this!"

"We know who you are, Grunkle Stan! Or, should I say..." -A!Dipper thrusted forward 'Dr. Crackpots Book of the DAMNED'.- "DR. CRACKPOT!"

"WHAT?!" -A!Stan yelled, seeming offended by the accusation.- "You think I'm that lunatic?! I'm your great uncle Stan!"

"Y-Y-You're wrong!" -A!Mabel spoke up, her tears falling like waterfalls as she held up the newspaper clipping.- "O-Our Grunkle i-is dead!"

"Friggin' hell." -A!Stan cursed under his breath as Mabel and Mason flinched at the newspaper clipping, being reminded of the first moment they figured out Stan's identity.- "Look, I'll explain everything, alright? J-just calm down!"

"NO!" -A!Dipper yelled, stepping towards A!Stan, his eyes fueled with rage.- "You're trying to bring about the end of the world! That portal will destroy us all! We're here to stop you!"

"D-Destroy?! The HELL do you take me for?!" -A!Stan snapped back, backing away from the enraged A!Dipper.- "Dipper, please, let him explain." -Mabel said, trying to deescalate the situation. Unfortunately, A!Dipper seemed unwilling to cooperate.- "I KNEW I shouldn't trust you two! You two pop in out of nowhere and suddenly replace us! You're working for him to destroy the world!"

-Mason reached into his coat to grab his blaster, in an attempt to get A!Dipper to back off, but Mabel quickly stopped him before he could make things worse. A!Dipper, however, noticed this and used it to his advantage.- "See?! You were gonna try and kill me, weren't you!" "What, no, of course he wasn't!" -Mabel went to his defense.-

"G-G-Guy's, please... l-let's stop fighting." -A!Mabel spoke quietly, which was unfortunately unheard due to the portal and the shouting from the others.-

"Kid, will you shut up and let me explain!" -A!Stan yelled, but A!Dipper was too far gone.- "No, I'm done trusting you! I'm stopping this portal even if I have to fight you!" -And with that, A!Dipper ran towards A!Stan and tackled him, and they tumbled and fought down towards the door to the portal room, where A!Dipper slammed A!Stan into the door and pushed them both into the portal room.-

"Stan!" -Mason and Mabel yelled simultaneously as they and A!Mabel ran into the portal room, where A!Stan was busy defending himself from an enraged A!Dipper. When A!Dipper had A!Stan pinned, he yelled to A!Mabel to "GRAB THE SHUTDOWN KEY, SHUT THIS THING DOWN!". "NO!" A!Stan yelled as he tried to get up without hurting A!Dipper.-

-A!Mabel stood still, panicking way too much to move. A!Dipper yelled at her to move, but she remained frozen, her tears streaming down her face. Mabel used this to try and embrace and comfort her, and to prevent her from going to shut down the portal.-

"Fine, if you won't, I'll do it myself!" -A!Dipper yelled as he smacked A!Stan in the face with the book, breaking his nose in the process, and ran towards the control room. With Mabel busy with A!Mabel, and A!Stan currently cursing on the floor with a broken nose, Mason quickly took out his blaster and yelled "FREEZE!". A!Dipper did not cooperate, and Mason holstered his blaster as he chased him down.-

-In the control room, A!Dipper forcefully opened a drawer in the desk and took out the shutdown key. He opened the shutdown hatch and was about to shut the portal down until Mason barreled into him, causing the key to go flying, clanging onto the floor.-

"What is your problem! I'm trying to save the world!" -A!Dipper yelled as he wrestled with Mason, who was starting to get very angry.- "Will you shut up! You don't know anything!"

-A!Dipper managed to get a lucky blow on Mason's nose, causing him to stumble and let go of A!Dipper. He took this chance to dart for the key, which he managed to grab. Mason went after him again and smashed him into the desk, causing it to bend and break.- "Stop fighting me! You'll destroy the world with that thing!" "You don't know that!"

-Down in the portal room, A!Mabel and Mabel were next to A!Stan, trying to help his broken nose. They looked towards the windows of the control room, briefly seeing Mason and A!Dipper wrestling with each other.- "W-We gotta stop them!" -A!Mabel said, but Mabel kept ahold of her.- "We can't, we gotta stay with Stan." -A!Mabel looked at her, concerned, and Mabel smiled.- "Don't worry, my brother can handle himself."

-Back in the control room, A!Dipper managed to kick Mason into the wall, using this opportunity to run to the shutdown button.- "Get any closer, and I'll... I'll shut this entire thing down!" -A!Dipper said as he used the key to unlock the hatch protecting the button, and hovered his hand over the button as he glared at Mason, who froze in place before he could go after him.-

"Please, just hear us out. Let that portal go!" "NO! I know what its purpose is! You want to summon that triangle demon!"

-Hearing the words 'triangle demon' caused Mason to flinch as horrible memories flooded his mind.- "No, no! We're not trying to summon him! He's dead!"

"What are you talking about, how could you possibly know that?!" -A!Dipper yelled, getting confused by what Mason was implying. Now without any reason to hide himself anymore, Mason straightened up.- "Because I was there when he was killed, and it was my Grunkle Stan who killed him!"

-A!Dipper was now incredibly confused. Grunkle Stan? But wait, only he and A!Mabel called him Grunkle...- "W-Wh-What are you saying?! Who ARE you?!"

"I'm you!"

-The two of them stayed silent for a moment. A!Dipper seemed to be trying to process this, his face shifting from confused to irritated.-

"Please, just step away from the button and we can explain!" -Mason said, keeping his hands up to show he wasn't gonna do anything. A!Dipper, though, seemed to distrust him.- "NO! How can I trust you! You can't be me!"

-The portal began to increase in brightness and noise, and the earth began to shake violently. Gravity suddenly inverted, and A!Dipper held onto the desk to avoid being sent up with the others.- "CRAP! I NEED TO SHUT IT OFF!" -A!Dipper climbed down to the button, but Mason quickly kicked the wall to rocket towards A!Dipper, grabbing his hand to prevent him from pressing the button.- "GET OFF ME!"

-The timer began to beep, indicating it was close to finishing. A!Dipper and Mason wrestled in place for a while, suspended in mid-air as they slowly rose to the ceiling. The portal started to crackle as electricity escaped into the rest of the chamber. A!Mabel was clinging onto Mabel, sobbing uncontrollably as Mabel tried to find a place to hold on to.- "WHOA WHOA WHOA!" -A!Stan yelled as he drifted aimlessly, grabbing an exposed pipe and holding on for dear life.-

-In the control room, A!Dipper managed to push Mason away from the button and swam towards the button, clinging onto the metal and raising his hand up.- "I'm shutting this thing down. FOR GOOD!" -And with a swift motion, his hand rocketed towards the button.-

-But before he could press it, the timer reached zero. The buzzer sounded and the button flashed off. A!Dipper pressed it but it did nothing as the portal began to glow brighter and brighter.-

"... oh no."

-And the portal exploded, filling the room, the Shack, and the entire town of Gravity Falls with a bright blue light. The screams of everyone faded as the world turned to white.-

-When the smoke cleared, the entire portal room was in complete ruin. The portal itself crackled as the rift it formed persisted, and A!Stan quickly got up from under the dust and dirt he was covered with. A!Mabel and Mabel quickly stood up as well, dusting themselves off as they stared at the portal.-

-In the control room, Mason and A!Dipper stood up and watched from the shattered glass. A!Dipper stood in shock as the portal was opened, fearing the end of the world was at stake.-

-In the blueness of the portal, a figure began to emerge, one wearing a coat and boots. The figure stood motionless in the portal as A!Stan stood up and stepped towards the portal.- "F-Ford?" -A!Stan asked hesitantly, his eyes beginning to tear up as he thinks about finally being able to see his brother again.-

-A!Mabel and A!Dipper glance towards A!Stan. They had never heard of someone named 'Ford' before. It certainly didn't look like the triangular demon. A!Mason started to question if everything he thought was a complete delusion.-

-Everyone waited for the figure to move. And then the figure fell forwards, dropping down the ruins of the portal and landing firmly on the floor, giving a boney, rattling sound.-

-Alternate Stanford Pines... was dead.-

-It was complete silence in the room. In fact, the portal had disappeared soon after the skeletal remains of Stanford fell through, and the humming had long since dissipated. Only one voice could be heard after that.- "F-Ford?"

-It had been a few weeks since they had activated the portal. After they found of Stanford's fate, the government had begun to raid the Shack. Using the Memory Erasure Gun that Stanford's corpse had on him, they were able to erase the mind's of the government agents and save the Shack. In the meantime, A!Stan had been busy trying to rebuild the portal to bring Mason and Mabel back home.-

-They had buried the body of Stanford out in front of the Mystery Shack that day, and now that his mission has ended, A!Stan has decided to tell the A!Twins everything, as well as the older twins, since they didn't know the whole story either.-

"You kids know me as Stanford Pines, but my real name is Stanley." -A!Stan explained as they all sat at the dinner table.- "My brother, the real Stanford, was a total nutcase. He used to be so smart, so intelligent. Honestly, by the time I was called back here, I didn't think I'd see him like... like this."

"What was he like?" -A!Mabel asked. A!Dipper sat next to her, his head held down. He likely felt regret for fighting and injuring his Grunkle over a complete misunderstanding.-

"He became a total nutcase. I suspect all the magical oddities around here and whatever demon god-thing he was contacting started to influence his mind." -A!Stan looked around the room.- "There were all these satanic symbols, these cultish artifacts that he'd worship, like, every day. He became enamored with worshipping this guy named 'Bill'. Frankly, if I were a powerful demon, I wouldn't want to name myself some lame name like Bill." -Mason and Mabel nearly burst out laughing at this, which was a step up from their usual reaction to the name Bill.-

"Ah..." -A!Mabel said, staying silent after. A!Stan watched her for a moment before smirking.- "You know, you two don't have to look so depressed. I've already forgiven you."

"R-really?" -A!Dipper said as he looked up at A!Stan, flinching slightly at his broken nose.- "Well, yeah. I can't have my only employee's bringing the mood down!" -A!Stan replied, sparking a bit of a smile in the A!Twins.- "Plus, you know... I can't exactly be mad at you."

-The A!Twins and A!Stan shared an awkward family hug, and Mason, Mabel and Jeff watched, smiling. Waddles simply oinked and Jeff stared back.- "Gee, way to ruin the moment."

-Over the weeks that went by since then, the portal had been rebuilt. A!Stan had promised to demolish the portal after the twins make it back, and with a few minutes of wait, the portal reopened to their reality.-

"Thanks for having us, Grunkle Stan!" -Mabel said with a bright smile as she held Waddles.- "Eh, it was nothing. Besides, you ended up helping me out, so you know. Win-win."

"Hey, uh, sorry for fighting you." -A!Dipper told Mason, who simply shrugged.- "It's fine, really. Just glad we managed to get through it."

-And with one last wave of goodbyes, the twins entered through the portal, the bright light nearly blinding them as they got thrusted through the dimensional rift and sent into the grass.-

"Ah, glad to be back home!" -Mabel exclaimed as she stood up and stretched her arms out as she breathed in the air. Mason got up and walked towards the adhesive guns that they accidentally left behind, which oddly enough seemed to not have aged that much.- "Huh, guess time in that reality moves a lot faster, I'm not sure we even spent very long away."

"Great, at least I won't come home to Grunkle Stan in his 190's." -Mabel commented as she picked her adhesive gun up and they managed to seal up the rift.-

"Ugh, I do NOT want to go there again!" -Jeff commented as he dusted himself off and kept Waddles away as they tried to sniff the gnome, who was covered in dirt.- "Anyways, I guess this is where I bid you two adieu. See you." -Jeff simply commented as he walked away into the woods. Mabel watched him go, wondering if his experience in the other reality would affect him mentally.-

-Mason looked up at the sky to see that the sun seemed to have moved. It seemed to be in the afternoon, the Shack was likely closed by now.- "Well, we should probably head back. They might be waiting for us." -Mason said as he began walking towards the Shack.-

"Coming!" -Mabel called as she quickly scooped up Waddles and turned around. However, she stopped as she turned back to the trees that were behind her back when they first tried to seal the rift. On a tree, a wooden sign was hung, which said "Pines, beware". This disturbed Mabel, but before she could think about it any further, the voice of Mason called out to her to hurry up.- "Coming!" -She called again, glancing one more time at the sign before running off towards Mason.-

-Next to the sign, a lanky creature looked out, making a rattling noise before darting away into the woods.-

THE END

[End Credits Scene]

-The twins would discuss the strangeness of the situation as they arrived at the Mystery Shack, where Stan, Soos and Wendy were on the porch, with a freezer full of freezie pops next to them. They were apparently discussing something about Deja-vu before Mason and Mabel arrived.-

"So I said, 'Thriller? I hardly know her'! But I, in fact, did know her, because she used to be my wife for 48 hours. Unfortunately, before I can watch any thrillers, a wooden owl stole them and disappeared through my bathroom door." -Stan explained to an attentive Soos and a bored-to-death Wendy, who immediately perked up when she saw Mason and Mabel coming towards the Shack.-

"Finally, I thought you guys would NEVER come back!" -Wendy called as she waved a blue freezie pop in the air.- "Yeah, I didn't know there were that many rifts." -Stan remarked.-

"Uh, yeah! It was pretty annoying, but I think we got all of them." -Mason replied, scratching the back of his head.- "Well, good. Now sit down, we have freezie pops!"

-Mason and Mabel sat down and each took a freezie pop. As they ate, Stan finished his and twisted the stick on its side.- "Where was King David's temple located?"

"I'm guessing its a joke, so its probably not the actual location." -Mason said as he scratched his chin. Stan just rolled his eyes.- "Behind his ear. Aren't you supposed to be smart?"

-Wendy rolled her eyes.- "Give the man a break, pops." -She popped the stick out of her mouth, turning it over.- "Heres one. What's the first word of every Japanese manga ever?"

-Everyone looked at each other, not seeming to know what the answer is.- "I dunno, what is the first word?"

"End."

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