The next day, I woke up and went to school. I nervously sat on the bus, looking out the window, hoping nobody watched the new episode. What would happen if people found out? If they watched the new episode? I would be on an experiment table no doubt.
Surprisingly enough, no one said anything to me. I sighed with relief for the first part of the day, until I was pulled aside by my best friend and Gravity Falls buddy, Marleen.
"Did you see the new Gravity Falls episode? The new character has the same name as you! And she speaks like you!" She exclaims.
"Keep it down!" I say, and add a sigh. "Yes. That character is named Stella because it IS me. I can't explain it and I can't tell you how I got in the show. It's so strange."
"Strange? That's flipping AWESOME!"
"Yes and no. Listen, you can't tell anyone. Anyone. People will find out sooner or later and I'm not quite sure I'm ready to find out what the reaction will be."
"Fine. But I'm watching the next episode tonight."
"Who even knows if I'll be in the show again?" I asked in a harsh whisper. My necklace glowed again.
"Your necklace is like, glowing." Marleen stated.
"I'm aware. It seems to glow when I talk about the show. When I talk about going back in."
"Your bracelet kind of glows, too."
"Yeah, I know that, too. It's so strange."
"Where'd you get them from? Did you get them from the same company?" She asks me.
"Yes, but they aren't name brand. They came as a discount from a single seller."
"That's shady."
"Oh, it was a discount. Besides, so what if they glow? It adds a certain charm." I say and Marleen looked at me funny.
"'Adds a certain charm?' Stella, they glow. That's not common in jewelry."
"Are we going to stand here and discuss my jewelry all day?" I asked, annoyed with the topic.
"Well, it's strange." Was all she said.
"You know what else is strange? Read this." I handed her the note that had come in the packaging. I saw it on the kitchen counter that morning while I was getting cereal. I snatched it up and shoved it into my pocket.
She took the wrinkled paper and read it over. Once. Twice. Three times.
"The words don't change no matter how many times you read the darned thing." I snarked.
"I'm trying to make something of this. It doesn't make any sense."
"You're telling me."
"Maybe you should look at where you got those items a little more closely. Do some research." She suggested.
"Good idea. I'll see you later." I said as a goodbye.
"I'll be watching the next episode." She said, smiling. I stuck my tongue out at her.
She handed me the paper before leaving.
"This really is something, though." And then she left.
I carried out my day normally, at least as normally as I could. I was still a little paranoid. And then I heard a conversation behind me in my free period. A conversation I dreaded to hear.
"Have you seen the new episode of Gravity Falls? There's a new character!" A boy said.
"I watched it before I left for school. That's some cool shiznit." Said another.
"The new character is named Stella. She's already friends with the twins!" Said a girl this time.
I decided to turn around and say something.
"Excuse me, I couldn't help but overhear your conversation. You said there's a new character?"
"Yeah, she has the same name as you actually, Stella." The girl, who I now recognized as Terri, one of my friends, said to me.
"That episode was awesome. It was a nice surprise to see something a little different." Said one of the boys.
"And this… new character? What do you think of her?" I asked, trying to act casual.
"Well, in my opinion, I've only seen her once so I'm not really sure what to think of her." Terri stated.
"I think she has some potential ass whooping with that new sword of hers." Boy #2 said.
"You think so?" I said, trying to hold back my smile.
"Absolutely."
I turned back around and chewed on my pencap in thought. Bad habit. But what would I do with the sword? Mabel suggested going against more gnomes but there was no need. But what if-
I fought the urge to slap myself in the face. Who even knew if I would go back in? It could've been a one time thing.
Well, I was completely wrong.
When I got home from school I found my mother folding laundry in the living room. She had the TV on and a half eaten sandwich bare on the coffee table. No plate, no napkin.
"Hey mom. What's shakin'?" I asked her.
"Doin' chores hon. How about you?"
"I've been better. I don't have any homework. I'm going to go take a nap." I say as I walk up the steps to the upstairs.
The truth was I never was going to take a nap. I was going to try to get into the show again.
Turning on my TV my DVR list, I clicked the next episode: The Legend of the Gobblewonker.
I shielded my eyes again, expecting the bright light. But it didn't come. Nothing came. Only the actual episode started playing.
"Wha-?" I ask aloud.
I looked down at my chest and the biggest shiver went down my spine. My chest was bare, no necklace in sight. I started to panic. I rummaged through my backpack, emptying it out entirely. I wanted to test to see if these items indeed sent me into the show or if it was a strange circumstance. And then I remembered where I put it. What I did with it that day.
I face palmed as I reached into my pocket.
"You stay on no matter what." I told it, remembering I took it off because it was bothering me.
I clipped it on and was about to click on the show when I had another idea.
Turning on my laptop, I searched the single seller I bought the items from. Unfortunately, he didn't leave any contact information. But, since I ordered off Amazon, I clicked on "leave seller feedback."
"Dear seller,
Your jewelry is astonishing, but I have some questions. If you could please email me back with anything, that would be greatly appreciated.
-Stella- A buyer."
I clicked send, and then put the necklace on. A flash of light sucked me into the TV screen. No circumstance, no coincidence. The jewelry was very strange, only by wearing them both could I be sent into the show.
I stood near the Mystery Shack, looking up at it.
"This is definitely real, and I have no idea why." I said aloud. Not ready to worry about it just yet, I walked up the steps to the Shack and stepped inside. Before I turned the corner, I looked down at my clothes. Still had the white tank top with the green dragon symbol.
Mabel and Dipper were sitting at their kitchen table, ready to chow down on syrup.
"Stella!" Mabel excitedly put down her syrup and ran over to me, embracing me in a hug. "You're just in time to be a part of the syrup contest!"
She skipped over to the pantry and pulled out another bottle of syrup.
"I'm surprised you two don't have diabetes. This is a lot of sugar." I joke.
"Are you guys read for the syrup challenge?" Mabel asked.
"I'm always ready." Dipper stated.
"Me too." I look at him with a sly smile on my face.
"You ready to go down, nerd boy?"
"I hope you're hungry, cause you're gonna choke on my victory."
Dipper and I get in each other's faces, our mouths full smiles.
"Ready, go!" Mabel yelled.
We tip our syrup bottles back and slurp the sticky substance down. For me, it was too sugary, but it was a lot of fun.
"Go Sir Syrup!" Mabel exclaimed.
"Go Mountie Man!" Dipper mimicked.
I read the label on my bottle, which was Sweet Stuff.
"Go Sweet Stuff!"
"Almost… almost… yes!" Mabel's thrilled self tapped the bottom of her syrup carton and the last of the syrup dripped into her mouth. "I won!"
"Ho, ho, no way! Hey guys, check this out." He handed Mabel a newspaper that was on the table and she and I looked it over together.
"Human sized hamster balls? I'm human sized!" She gasped.
"No, no, Mabel. This." He pointed to a monster ad. Ah, yes, the episode where they try to find the Gobblewonker, and Grunkle Stan tries to bond with his great niece and nephew. "We see weirder stuff than that everyday! We didn't get any photos of those gnomes, did we?" Dipper asked.
"Nope, just memories. And this beard hair." She held up a clump of hair.
"Why did you save that?" Dipper asked, obviously disgusted.
"I dunno."
Grunkle Stan entered, and he held my sheath to the sword. Where was that?
"Good morning, knuckleheads. You two know what day it is? And here you go, Stella. Found it in the garage." He handed me the sheath. "Also, the sword is still in the gift shop."
Alright, found it.
"Um… to answer your question, happy anniversary?" Dipper asked.
"Mazel tov!" Mabel enthusiastically shouted.
"It's Family Fun Day, genius!" Grunkle Stan said, clanking Dipper on the head with his newspaper. "We're cuttin' off work and having one of those, you know, bonding type deals." As he talked, he sniffed the milk he got out of the refrigerator.
"Oh! Oh! Can Stella come?" asked Mabel.
I felt at home. In a weird way. I felt that I was going to really enjoy being in the show, hanging with the people in my favorite show. Well, now I was a part of the show.
"She's gotta stay here and tend to the shack." Grunkle Stan said.
"Aw, come on Grunkle Stan, that's Soos and Wendy's job." Mael defended.
Grunkle Stan touched his chin in thought.
"Alright, but Stella, you're gonna have to do everything these two do." He told me.
"Works for me." I stated.
"Grunkle Stan, is this going to be anything like our last family bonding day?" Dipper chimed in.
A flashback occurred, showing the audience of the time Stan tried to make counterfeit money, getting caught by the cops during the process.
"The county jail was so cold." Mabel shuddered.
"All right, maybe I haven't been the best summer caretaker. But I swear, today we're gonna have some real family fun. Now who wants to put on some blindfolds and get into my car?"
"YAY!" The twins shouted. And then Dipper caught what he said.
"Wait, what?" And then he froze. Everyone froze. I was frozen again. I guessed that I would always do that during every theme song.
After the theme song the scene changed so that all four of us were in the car. Mabel and Dipper were blindfolded and so was I. I had voluntarily done it. It was fun to play along. Even though I knew exactly where we were going,
Grunkle Stan reached down to adjust the radio and the tires screeched.
"Whoa, whoa. Blindfolds never lead to anything good." Dipper sighed.
"Wow! I feel like all my other senses are heightened. I can see with my fingers!" Mabel felt Dipper's face and he laughed.
Then the car hit a bump and we're flown into the car doors.
"Whoa! Grunkle Stan are you wearing a blindfold?" Dipper asked.
"Ha ha. Nah, but with these cataracts I might as well be. What is that, a woodpecker?"He drove through a wooden guardrail, the three of us in the back screamed.
The scene changed to the part where the twins and I stood in front of the lake.
"Okay, okay. Open 'em up!" Grunkle Stan announced to us.
We take our blindfolds off and gazed out at a lake.
"Ta'da! It's fishin' season!" Grunkle Stan told us excitedly.
"Fishing?" Mabel asked, a little confused.
"What're you playing at, old man?" Said Dipper.
"You're gonna love it! The whole town's out here!"
The camera panned over the lake, everyone doing different lake activities.
"That's some quality family bonding!"
I chuckled as I watched Manly Dan punch a fish repeatedly.
"Grunkle Stan, why do you want to bond with us all of a sudden?" Dipper asked.
"Come on, this is gonna be great! I've never had fishing buddies before. The guys from the lodge won't go with me. They don't 'like' or 'trust' me."
"I think he actually wants to fish with us." Mabel told Dipper and I.
"Hey, I know what'll cheer you sad sacks up." He slapped two hats onto Mabel and Dipper. "Pow! Pines family fishing hats. That's-that's hand stitching, you know. And uh, Stella, I didn't have much for ya so I brought your sword. You can use that thing on fish!"
"Thanks, Stan." I said, and I strapped the sword to my side.
"It's just gonna be you, me, and those goofy hats on a boat for ten hours!"
"Ten hours?" Dipper complained.
"Maybe it won't be so bad." I lightly punched him on the shoulder, trying to cheer him up. But I already knew where this episode was going.
"There has to be a way out of this." Mabel thought.
"I SEEN IT! I SEEN IT AGAIN! The Gravity Falls Gobblewonker! Come quick before it scrabdoodles away!" Old man McGucket shouted, telling everyone around about the Gobblewonker. Then he did a little jig.
"Awww… he's doing a happy jig!" Mabel gazed in awe.
"NOOOO! It's a jig of grave danger!" McGucket tried to warn Mabel.
Tate McGucket, his son, came out and sprayed his dad with a spray bottle. "Hey, hey! Now what did I tell you about scaring my customers? This is your last warning, dad!" He warned.
"But I got proof this time, by gummity!"
The scene cut to the dock, and we all stood around, waiting for McGucket to show us what he needed to.
"It chawed my boat up to smitheroons, and shim-shammed over to Scuttlebutt Island! YOU GOTTA BELIEVE ME!"
"Attention all units! We've got ourselves a crazy old man!" Officer Blubs spoke.
Everyone laughed except for Blubs, the Pines, and me. I felt sorry for him, actually.
"Aw, donkey spittle! Aw, banjo polish!" McGucket said in shame, walking away.
"Well, that happened. Now let's untie this boat and get out on the lake!" Grunkle Stan said and stepped into the little rowboat.
"Mabel, Stella, did you hear what that old dude said?" Dipper asked us.
"'Aw, donkey shpittle!'" Mabel mimicked. I giggled and she smiled at me.
"The other thing. About the monster. If we snag a photo of it, we can split the prize three ways!"
"No, I'm okay, you guys split the money! I don't need any!" I smiled at them.
"Aw, come on Stella, of course you need money. Who doesn't?" Mabel asked.
"Good question, but seriously, you two split it." To me, it wouldn't be the same if they didn't split it between each other.
"If you say so. Mabel, imagine what you could do with five. Hundred. Dollers!" Dipper said.
The vision that Mabel had played, where she was in the giant hamster ball. Dipper tried to break her out of her trance.
"Mabel. Mabel?" He snapped his fingers.
"Dipper, I am one million percent on board with this!" Mabel thrilled.
"As am I." I said.
"Great! Grunkle Stan, change of plans." Oh on. I never like this part. It always made me feel sorry for the old coot. "We're taking that boat to Scuttlebutt Island, and we're going to find that Gobblewonker!"
"Monster hunt! Monster hunt!" The three of us chanted, even though I hated that Stan would be left alone.
"Monster hunt!" McGucket suddenly joined in. "Monster… Eh… I'll go." He said after the Mabel, Dipper, and I stopped chanting and stared at him. A honking sound was heard shortly after.
"You dudes say somethin' about a monster hunt?" Soos asked as he pulled up in his boat.
"Soos!" Mabel was happy to see him.
"Wassap, hambone!" He said to her, the both of them fistbumbing together. "Dude, you could totally use my boat for your monster hunt. It's got a steering wheel, chairs; normal boat stuff."
"All right, all right, let's think this through. Ya kids could go waste your time on some epic monster-finding adventure, or you could spend the day learning how to tie knots and skewer worms with your Great Uncle Stan!" Stan suggested.
The twins look at Soos who danced like a robot on his boat and then back at Stan who sniffed his armpit. I don't look at either of them because I knew what choice they would make and I couldn't watch. Why didn't I stay with Stan? Because the adventure was with the twins. Always.
"So whaddaya say?" Stan asked, but it was too late. We were driving away with Soos.
"We made the right choice!" Mabel said from next to me.
"Yes!" Soos agreed.
I turned away, and I heard Stan yell "ingrates!" from the distance. I sighed.
"Hoist the anchor!" Dipper yelled to us as he stood at the front of the boat.
Soos raised the cinder block anchor.
"Raise the flag!"
Mabel held up a beach towel, which flapped in my face. She laughed, and so did I, and then said, "We're gonna find that Gobblewonker!"
"We're gonna win that photo contest!" Dipper chipped in.
"We're gonna gonna crash!" I yelled. Everyone panicked and screamed.
"Fooled ya!" I laughed. Dipper playfully punched my arm. I felt my cheeks get a little warm. Uh, the sun was out…
"Do any of you dudes have sunscreen?" Soos asked the three of us.
"We're gonna… go get sunscreen!" Dipper said.
"Yay!" Mabel, Soos, and I exclaimed.
We U-turned away from the island. I turned to look back and saw just what I had expected: the strange shape of the Gobblewonker.
And then we froze again. I couldn't move, couldn't speak, couldn't even move my eyes. The theme song was over like forever ago, why was-
Commercials. I forgot that there were commercials. I had to stay frozen like that for a couple minutes.
Finally, they were over and then Dipper paced in front of us.
"Alright. If we're gonna win this contest we've gotta do it right! Think. What's the number one problem with monster hunts?" He addressed to us.
"You're a side character, then you die within the first five minutes of the movie. Dude, am I a side character? Do you ever think about stuff like that?"
"It's camera trouble." I accidently blurted out. Damn it.
"No, no, no, it's camera- oh. Stella's right. It's camera trouble." He blushed a little.
"I brought seventeen disposable cameras." He told us all the locations of cameras he had on his body. "Four for Soos and Mabel and three for Stella. Those were the extras. Okay everybody, let's test our cameras out!"
Soos flashed himself in the face and threw his camera overboard. Mabel threw hers at a bird.
"Fifteen! Okay guys, I repeat: don't lose your cameras!" Dipper warned.
"Wait, lose the cameras?" Soos questioned.
"DON'T!" Dipper yelled.
"Dude, I just threw two away." Soos apologized. This was gonna go on for a few.
"Thirteen! Alright! We still have thirteen camera-" Dipper accidentally crushed one with his fist. "Twelve. We have twelve cameras."
"So what's the plan? Throw more cameras overboard or what?" Mabel asked.
"NO! No. Okay, you'll be look out, Soos can work the steering wheel, Stella can can help you, Mabel, and I'll be captain."
"What? Why do you get to be the captain? What about Mabel, huh?" She started chanting her name. "Ma-bel! Ma-bel! Ma-bel!"
"I'm not sure that's a good idea." Dipper said.
"What about co-captain?"
"There's no such thing as co-captain."
"Aw, whoops." Mabel tossed a camera overboard.
"Okay, fine! You can be co-captain."
"Can I be associate co-captain?" Soos asked.
"As co-captain I authorize that request." Mabel answered.
"I want to be, um, co-co-co-captain." I joked.
"As co-captain I also authorize that request." Said Mabel.
"Well, as first co-captain, our number one order of business is to lure the monster out with us." He pointed to a barrel of Fish Food.
"Permission to taste some?" Soos asked.
"Granted." Dipper accepted.
"Permission co-granted!" Exclaimed Mabel.
"Permission co-co-co granted!" I giggled because that made no sense. But since Soos had claimed associate co-captain, I was third co-captain.
Soos licked the Fish Food and then gagged. "I don't know what I was expecting that to taste like!" Soos said in disgust.
The three of us laughed.
"Oh Soos…" Dipper sighed with a smile.
I heard Stan from the distance. No one else seemed to notice.
"Traitors!..." Was all I heard. Not the guilt again. Creators, don't do this to me, I thought.
Our boat pulled into the clutches of Scuttlebutt Island, fog littering the area. Soos shoveled Fish Food over the side of the boat, and Mabel played with the beak of a pelican.
"Hey, how's it going?" Mabel said as herself and then said in a mock voice, "It's going awesome! Bow bow, buh bow bow."
I laughed out loud, watching her do that.
"More! More!" I clapped for it. Dipper, however, didn't find it as amusing.
"Mabel, leave that thing alone."
"Aw, I don't mind none! I make that one over there smile!" Mabel mocked with the beak, turning the poor bird's head toward me. I laughed some more.
"Hey, look, I'm drinking water! Twinkle, twinkle little-" She choked and coughed in her mock voice and the pelican flew away.
"Aren't you supposed to be looking out?" Dipper asked her.
"You might want to step aside." I said to him, carefully.
"Look out!" Mabel threw a volleyball at Dipper and he stepped out of the way.
"How did you know I was going to do that? Are you some kind of psychic?!" Mabel asked me.
"That was predictable, Mabel." I stuck my tongue out at her, smiling wide. She did the same thing.
"But seriously I'm on it, guys."
As soon as she finished that, we crashed into the island.
"See? We're here! I'm a lookout genius! Hamster ball, here we come!" Mabel yelled.
We stepped off the boat and walked into the foggy woods. Soos walked up to the sign that was labeled "Scuttlebutt Island."
"Dude, check it out." He covered up "Scuttle," only to show "Butt." I giggled.
"Soos, you rapscallion!" Mabel turned to Dipper. "Hey! Why aren't you laughing? Are you scared." She asked, poking fun at him.
"Psssh. Yeah right! I'm not-"
Mabel cut him off and poked his nose. "Yeah you are!" She raspberried at him.
Dipper dropped the lantern as Mabel kept poking him and blowing raspberries.
"Hey! Quit! Mabel!" He stammered. Then we heard a growling noise in the distance, and Mabel stopped.
"Did you guys hear that?" Soos asked as he walked up to us.
"What was that? Was it your stomach?" Mabel curiously asked.
"Nah, my stomach normally sounds like whale noises."
Mabel listened to Soos' stomach and heard the whale noises.
"Wow. So majestic." She said.
"What? No way. Move over." I told her. I listened to Soos' stomach and I heard the noises.
"I told you, dude."
"Yes. Yes you did." I smiled at him, lightly bowing my head.
A possum suddenly ran out of nowhere and grabbed our lantern, running away with it.
"Our lantern! Aww! I can't see anything!" Dipper gasped.
"Duuuude, I dunno man. Maybe this uh… maybe this isn't worth it." Soos suggested.
"Not worth it? Guys, imagine what would happen if we got that picture!" Dipper said.
I watch him daze out for a minute, suddenly remembering that he was lost in the scene where he's being interviewed.
"I'm in!" He smiled after the scene.
"Me too!" Mabel said.
"As am I!" I chimed in.
We ran off into the woods together, Soos following shortly after.
"Alright, dudes, I'm comin'!"
Soon, Soos started to beatbox and Mabel rapped to it.
"My name is Mabel! It rhymes with table! It also rhymes with….. glabel! It also rhymes with…. Shmabel!"
I chuckled and thought it'd be fun if I gave it a try.
"Soos, give me a beat!" I said.
"Alright, dude!" He started the beat again.
"My name is Stella, 'cause I'm a cool fella, if you call me Bella, I'll rip Mabel's sweata!" I couldn't control myself when I ended that, I erupted into a hoot of laughter.
"What'd my sweater ever do to you, huh? I'll take your sword and throw it in the lake! Muhahahah!" Mabel raised her arms in the air, I took that chance to poke her stomach. She covered her stomach protectively and giggled.
"Guys, guys, guys! You hear something?" Dipper asked us, holding a camera.
We heard a growl come from the forest.
"This is it! This is it!" He said again.
I drew my sword, following Mabel and Dipper into the woods. I looked behind me and saw Soos pick up a stick and follow suit.
Soon after, Soos stopped us when he saw a silhouette of a monster. We ducked behind a log, me trying to make sure my sword was out of everyone's way.
"Everyone: Get your camera's ready!" Dipper ordered. We turned on our cameras, well, I didn't, I knew what was coming, and awaited for the "monster."
Just as I had expected, when Dipper yelled, "Ready, GO!", we peeked over the log and there were three beavers in front of us. They spoke in "beaver language."
"But...but what was that noise, then? I heard a monster noise!" Dipper said with a hint of disappointment.
We heard the noise again, only to find it was a beaver with a chainsaw. Soos gasped and took a picture.
"Maybe that guy was crazy after all." Dipper suggested.
"He did use the word 'scrapdoodle.'" Mabel said to her brother.
"And donkey spittle." I joked. They both chuckled.
Then Dipper sighed.
"It's okay." I smiled at him, putting my hand on his shoulder. He looked at me and smiled as well.
"Thanks." He said. I nodded.
Soos, after a few minutes of looking at the beavers, decided to take photos of the beavers.
"Oh, yeah! Work it! Work it! Nice! Nice! Gimme another one of those! Yeah, I like that one."
"Soos, what're you doing?" I laughed out.
"Have you seen these beavers, dude? They're little, furry, pros!" He returned.
Dipper, on the other hand, looked glum. I waded over to him, since he was sitting on a rock in the lake. "The Rock That Moved."
"You okay?" I asked.
"What're we gonna say to Grunkle Stan? We ditched him over nothing." He threw a stone into the lake and, like the name I gave it stated, the rock moved, before I could say anything else.
"Hey… do you guys feel that?" The rock sunk deeper into the water, causing Dipper and I to swim back to shore.
"Hey, hey! Whoa, whoa!" He exclaimed.
We saw the silhouette of the Gobblewonker swim away. Mabel shrieked.
"This is it!" Dipper said as he took pictures. "Come on! This is our chance!" Mabel, Soos, and I backed up. Dipper unaware of the scene in front of him. "What's wrong with you guys?"
"Dipper…?" Mabel said.
"Dude...?" Soos, too.
"Dipper, seriously…" I said as well.
"It's not that hard, all right? All you gotta do is point, and shoot. Like this!" He turned to give his demonstration, only to find the Gobblewonker in his face.
The Gobblewonker roared, causing Dipper to drop his camera.
"Run!" Soos roared from beside me.
We wasted no time in turning on our heels and racing for the boat. From behind us, the Gobblewonker pushed a tree over, almost crushing Dipper and Mabel. Luckily, they lunged out of the way. Falling trees rain down onto us, Soos a little ways up from us. We struggled to dodge the trees, but eventually we caught up to Soos.
"Get back to the boat! HURRY!" Soos shouted. The Gobblewonker snapped out for Mabel, its jaws almost snagging her. She jumped out of the way onto Soos' back. Dipper aimed his camera at the Gobblewonker, only to trip over a root, losing the camera.
"The picture!" Dipper yelled and ran after it. He started to run after it but Soos grabbed him.
"Dude, if it makes you feel any better, I got tons of pictures of those beavers, dude!"
"WHY WOULD THAT MAKE ME FEEL BETTER?" Dipper screamed.
And then he froze. All of us froze, even the Gobblewonker, its mouth open and its front foot raised in the air, ready to smack another tree.
Commercial break, I thought.
After the commercial, we continued to run for the boat. Once we approached it Soos helped us on and climbed in himself.
"Let's get outta here, dudes!" Soos exclaimed as we drove away in the boat. Backwards.
"All right! This is it!" Dipper said, trying to take a picture. "Cracked lens? Soos! Get a photo!"
But Soos was busy throwing all the cameras at the Gobblewonker.
"WHAT ARE YOU DOING?" Dipper was obviously unhappy.
"Oh! I still got one left! Don't worry dude!" Soos tossed a camera to Dipper but he missed and it broke apart on the boat's wall.
"We gotta move!" I yelled, seeing the Gobblewonker dive into the water, already chasing us.
"Go, go, go, go, go!" Dipper rushed.
Soos steered the S.S. Cool Dude away from the monster, but splashed Stan as we passed him. I watched him throw his hat on the ground and sit down.
Don't worry, you old coot. They'll be there for you at the end, I thought to myself. I always hated how he was left alone.
As I finished that thought, Dipper screamed in my ear, "SOOS! BEAVERS!"
Indeed, there were beavers, and we crashed into an old boat they were on. They rained down from the sky, landing on us and the boat. They started to bite us as well as the boat.
A beaver landed on my face, so I was blinded for the moment. I panicked and thrashed around to get the beaver off of me. I heard shouts and what sounded like Soos crying in pain. Oh, right, a beaver landed on his face, too.
"Mmrf… geft off merf!" I mumbled, trying to say, "Get off me!"
Finally, I managed to yank the beaver off my face. I reeled my arm back and threw it into the water.
"No hard feelings!" I yelled after it.
Unfortunately for me, I did not notice the massive tail of the Gobblewonker swipe the boat, knocking the control cabin off as well as hitting me and knocking me onto my face.
"Seriously?" I mumbled into the floor. You think I would have known to duck, even when I've seen what happens? I had a forewarning and I still landed on my face.
"Aah! Look out!" Mabel warned. I peeled my face from the floor and stood up, still unfortunate timing, we hit a sheet of glass two men were carrying over the water and I fell backwards onto my back.
"Oof!" I grunted. Agitating. Truly agitating.
"WHERE DO I GO?!" I heard Mabel shout.
I stood up, again, and heard Dipper's rushed thinking. He flipped through the pages of the journal and told Mabel to go into the falls.
"I think there might be a cave in there!" He said.
"MIGHT BE?" Mabel panicked, and then they all started screaming. I stood my ground. This time, I was ready for what was coming. Or so I thought.
The boat went through the falls and came to a sudden stop that jolted all of us off of it. I fell on my face, again, into the dirt. Mabel helped me up, and I turned to see the Gobblewonker stuck in the cave's entrance.
"It's stuck!" Mabel said.
"Ha ha! Yeah! Wait… it's stuck?" Dipper tried to find any spare cameras but turned out empty handed.
Mabel lifted Dipper's hat to reveal his one last camera.
"Boop." She says.
Dipper laughed and took pictures of the Gobblewonker.
"Didja get a good one?" Mabel asked.
"THEY'RE ALL GOOD ONES!" He hugged her.
"WOO! HAMSTER BALL!"
All of a sudden, a rock fell and hit the Gobblewonker. Its head fell down with an electric noise.
"What the…?" Dipper walked up to it and touched its side. "Huh?"
"What's wrong?" Mabel asked.
Dipper started to climb up the Gobblewonker.
"Careful, dude!" Soos warned.
"I've got this! Hold on!"
Shortly after, he yelled for us to come check something out.
We discovered Old Man Mcgucket, sitting in the Gobblewonker.
"Wha- Yo- You?! You made this? W- w- why?" Dipper asked.
"Well, I, I… uh, just wanted attention." McGucket said.
"I still don't understand."
McGucket explained all the reasons why he made the Gobblewonker, how his son never visited him and how he wanted to get noticed.
"You just don't know the lengths us old-timers go through for a little quality time with our family." McGucket finished.
Mabel and Dipper looked down at their fishing hats Stan gave them and sighed.
"Well, so much for the photo contest." Said Dipper.
"You still have one roll of film left." Mabel pointed out.
"Whaddaya want to do with it?" He asked.
We piled into the boat and made our way to Stan at last.
We noticed him driving back toward shore.
"Hey! Over here!" Dipper tried to get Stan's attention, taking a photo of him once he did.
"What the- Kids? I thought you three were off playing 'Spin The Bottle' with Soos!" Stan said.
"Well, we spent all day trying to find a 'legendary' dinosaur." Dipper said.
"But we realized, the only dinosaur we want to hang out with is right here." Mabel added.
"And I realized that I want to spend the day with the greatest boss in the world. " I said.
"Save your sympathy! I've been havin' a great time withoutcha! Makin' friends, talkin' to my reflection- I had a run in with the lake police! Guess I gotta wear this ankle bracelet now, so that'll be fun."
"So I guess there isn't room in that boat for four more?" Dipper said.
Stan glared at us. Dipper and Mabel put on their hats, and his expression softened.
"You knuckleheads ever seen me thread a hook with my eyes closed?"
"Five bucks says you can't do it!" Dipper yelled.
"You're on!" Stan agreed, and Dipper climbed into the Stanowar.
"Five more bucks says you can't do it with your eyes closed, plus me singing at the top of my lungs!" Mabel yelled as well.
"I like those odds!" Stan said to her as she, Soos, and I climb into the Stanowar together.
Almost the end of the episode, I thought.
"Whoa, what happened to your shirt?" Stan asked Soos.
"Long story, dude." He said.
"All right, everybody get together. Say fishing!" Dipper says.
"Fishing!" Stan ,Mabel, and I said together. Soos stepped into the frame, but inly his stomach showed.
"Dude, am I in the frame?" He asked.
"Well, guys, I've got to go home." I told them.
"Awww really?" Dipper asked.
"One more picture before you go?" Mabel asked me.
"I would love to." We all got in the frame. I made a silly face and everyone laughed in the shot.
"Well, bye everyone!" I jumped off the boat and swam to the shore. I turned to see what the gang was doing and saw them being chased by the lake police. I giggled and ducked behind a tree, the flash of light erupting in front of me again, and I found myself in my bedroom.
Before I did anything else, I ran downstairs to my mom, only to find her doing laundry in front of the TV again.
"I thought you were going to take a nap, darling?" She says.
"Oh… yeah, right." I headed back upstairs.
Closing the door behind me a thought went through my head:
No time passes when I'm in the show. When I enter, I leave my room at a certain time and come back to find that no time has passed whatsoever. It's so strange. Then I remembered something: my question to the single seller.
I turned my computer on, trying to be as fast as I could be. I went to Amazon but found no response from the seller. I closed my laptop and heard something come from my TV.
I turned around and found my TV still playing "The Legend of The Gobblewonker." It was the end scene after the credit. Mabel telling her pelican joke. It ended with Dipper calling it a bad joke.
I smiled and sat atop my bed. Leaning back, I thought about what would happen in the next episode: Headhunters.