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Chapter Three: Adding an Arcade

~the next day~

Tucker

Vlad Master's, the town mayor, had just built an arcade. And, being the techno-geek I am, rushed over to the arcade.

"Ah," I said, "I love the smell of technology in the morning!

I walked in and saw all of the arcade games. Some were new and modern, but I saw some old-style arcade games. I saw one labeled "Fight Fighters".

"Hm. It's old, and not really my style, but… I'll give it a shot!" I walked over to the old game and put in a quarter.

I decided to select "Rumble McSkirmish".

"Seriously? Who comes up with these names?" I wondered out loud.

A cutscene appeared.

"'Doctor Karate, you killed my father again !'" Rumble said.

Dr. Karate said, "HHNNGHHHH!" followed by Rumble saying, "You take that BAAAAAACK!"

The fight started, and I quickly won.

"This is so easy, but is want to play again." I dropped my quarter and reached down to pick it up.

"Whoa, wait? 'To unleash ultimate power'?" I put in the code, and the screen went dark.

"I am not paying for a broken arcade game. This is ancient," I muttered to myself.

The screen flared back to life, and the game a nicer said, "Select your character!"

"Rumble McSkirmish!" I blurted.

And the next thing I knew, Rumble McSkirmish was standing next to me.

"I brought a video game character to LIFE?! This is so cool!" I said!

"Greetings! I am Rumble McSkirmish!" Rumble said. "Thank you for freeing me!"

"You're not a ghost, are you?" I asked.

Rumble laughed. "No. I am Rumble McSkirmish from the USA! I must no go find the one who dishonored me!"

"You mean, like Dr. Karate?"

"Yes! Press start!"

I start button appeared, and I pressed it.

"Dr. Karate isn't even real!" I said after I pressed the button.

"The I will go find the boy who lied to me!" Rumble said, running off.

Boy? As in a kid? This can't be good.

Dipper

I was bored. Who knew staying with a ghost-hunting family could be so boring?

I decided to dig around in my backpack-that I happened to have when I got stuck here-and see if I could find a book to read. But I felt the texture of a different kind of book. A chill went my spine as I touched the journal. For some reason, it felt out of place here. Like it didn't belong. In fact, I kinda felt the same way. Something wasn't right… "What's in your backpack?" Danny asked behind me.

"Gah!" I said, nearly jumping from being startled. "N-nothing! Haha, nothing at all!"

Danny reached in and pulled out a paper. "'Dear Wendy, I've always had a crus-'"

I snatched the paper from him.

"Oh, you have a crush on someone?" Danny asked, smiling.

"No! I mean, not anymore," I said.

"What happened?" Danny sounded curious.

A shapeshifter was disguised as a girl named Wendy and got knocked out so I thought Wendy was dead. So I confessed I had a crush while the real Wendy was behind me. I just said, "I, uh, told her. But it didn't work out. She was like… sixteen… But we're still friends and all." That was basically the truth.

"Danny!" Tucker yelled and he ran in the room. "There's…" He paused as he noticed me.

"Alright," Danny said. "Um, Dipper, if you could wait outside…"

Danny pushed me out of his room and closed the door. I decided to eavesdrop on what they were saying. I pressed my ear up against the door.

"… said his name was Rumble. I actually brought a video game character to life!" Tucker said.

"Cool!" Danny replied.

"Yeah, well, now he's after some kid that apparently lied to him…" I heard Tucker's voice trail off.

"Good job, Tuck. I guess I better-"

I barged in the room before Danny could finish.

"Were you eavesdropping?" Tucker asked.

I ignored his question and asked some of my own. "Did you say you brought a video game character to life? And his name is Rumble? And he's after a kid who lied to him?"

"The answer to all of this questions is yes," Tucker said.

"Oh man," I said, starting to pace a bit. "This is bad. Really bad!"

"What? It's not like you're the one who lied to him," Danny said. He paused. "Wait. You were the one who lied to him, weren't you?"

"Uh, yeah…" I grabbed my backpack. "Now I got to go stop Rumble before he does something crazy!" I ran out of Danny's room and down the stairs. I heard Danny and Tucker following me.

"Whoa, Dipper!" Danny yelled. "Should you not be going after Rumble? I mean, he's after YOU."

"Yeah, but I should probably catch him before he does something Rumble-ish."

"Rumble-ish?" Danny repeated.

"Yeah. Rumble-ish," I said.