Episode Summary: When Gompers gets snatched up by a pterodactyl, the gang must save him before he becomes prehistoric bird food!

Disclaimers: I do not own Gravity Falls or the Relativity Falls AU

Author Notes: So this episode isn't going to be as long as mine usually are. I just feel like this one is more of a filler and shouldn't take the usual three chapters to complete.

With that said thanks for reading and please review.

The Land before Billy (Part 1)

A car drove past a 'Lil Bonnie' sign at a dangerous speed. The cop's speedometer on their car said it was going 99 miles per hour. However, Blubs and Durland were too busy to notice.

"Easy, easy," Blubs said. "Remember your training, deputy." He watched as Durland tried to complete a children's maze. "You're almost there..."

Durland's hand slipped and his line connected with the shark on the paper. "Dang it!" He said. "I almost got the treasure!"

"Oh, you'll get it next time," Blubs said reassuringly. Something causes the car to shake. "Hey, you feel that?"

The two cops screamed as a pair of claws dug into the roof of the car, tearing it off. They watched as whatever did the damage flew off.

"Think we should report that?" Blubs asked.

"Or we could just go for a ride in our new convertible!" Durland screamed.

The two drove off happily their joy masking the screech of something big fly past the moon.

(Back at the Shack)

It was midafternoon and Mabel was finishing up her seventh tour of the day. "Ladies and gentlemen! Continuing our Mystery Tour you'll see the world famous Outhouse of Mystery!" Mabel pointed towards an outhouse. "I got stuck in there once!"

"Can I go to the bathroom?" A boy asked.

"Save all questions until the end of the tour," Mabel smiled. The boy groaned. "And up ahead, if you look closely- everyone get your cameras out, you're gonna want to see this-"

Meanwhile inside, the mystery gang was busy tidying up and restocking the shelf.

"One, two, three…" Ford muttered as he counted the inventory and marked it on his clipboard. "How's it coming Heather?"

Heather, who was covering for Danny this week, was busy counting the money in the register. "250." She answered proudly. "All good here."

"So who's handling the pool while Mr. Poolcheck is gone?" Fids asked from his perch on top of a tall ladder. He was busy changing the air filters in the vents.

"Well Mr. Poolcheck mom is very sick." Heather explained. "So the pool has been closed until further notice."

"So much for those college kids helping out." Copper muttered under his breath.

"Still it is nice to have us all together again." Susan admitted. "Even if it's under terrible circumstances."

"So what part of the tour are they at?" Bud asked Stan, who was busy spying on said tour through the window.

"She just got done telling the outhouse joke." Stan said.

"It may not be a joke." Ford said. "According to the journal random doors and portals appear all over the town. In fact, he Author talks about a portal appearing in an outhouse not different from ours."

"Really?" Stan looks curious. "What was in it?"

"He never says, he just warns to never walk through them. He does have a few theories listed; like said portals could take you to other dimensions or back in time."

"Hey maybe that's how boats and planes disappear in the Bermuda triangle." Fids exclaimed.

"Maybe, but none of that explains why Stanley is avoiding work again." Ford pointed out.

Stan sighed, he was supposed to be cleaning up the clothes rack, but Stan had recently taken up a working strike of sorts. "It's summer bro." Stan exclaimed. "And what are we doing? Working and planning science fair projects."

"Hey! I resent that." Ford exclaimed. "Beside the science fair sounds really cool."

"It is." Fids explained. "It's held at the high school every summer and sometimes college scouts come and offer scholarships to the winners."

"Guys I'm with Stan on this." Cooper said. "We're 12 and 13, we have four to five years to worry about college."

"They don't just offer scholarships." Heather argued. "Last year they gave internships to all the freshmen just for participating."

"Guys it's still school work, during summer break!" Stan yelled. "That's where I cross the line."

"Stan it's just 2 weeks until the fair." Ford explained. "We still have a whole summer to hang out."

"Or you could help us." Fids added.

"Pass." Stan said.

"Oh come on, it'll be fun." Ford said. "You don't even have to do the hard stuff." He reasoned. "Heather is helping with planning and supplies, and Cooper and Bud are taking our shifts at the shack so we have more time for our project."

"Really you're working at the Mystery Shack?" Stan asked Bud. "Won't that like anger your family?"

"No doubt." Bud agreed. "But friends help each other, and if I take their shift they can work during work hours and still have time for summer fun after with us."

Stan looks thoughtful. "Well I guess when you put that way it's not less summer time than we usually have." He admitted.

"Exactly." Heather agreed.

"So how is Susan helping?" Stan asked.

"Well I have the most important job." Susan said. "I'm watching Gompers so he doesn't try eating the project." She explained.

"He seems more anxious than usual." Ford explained, looking worried. "He's already eaten three blueprints."

"Blueprints for what?" Cooper asked. "I thought you hadn't decided a project yet."

"We haven't." Fids confirmed. "But we had a few ideas we wanted to try."

"Like a perpetual motion machine, or perhaps we could demonstrate my theory about weirdness magnetisms."

"Weird what?" Cooper asked.

"Oh it's my theory about why all these supernatural things are here in town." Ford explained shifting through the journal. "There must be something here that draws in these weird and unexplained beings, a beacon or something. But the journal doesn't mention anything about it."

"Maybe something in town will." Fids thought. "Like the Library."

"Maybe…." Ford looks thoughtful.

"Well I think I could use some help with Gompers." Susan admitted. "Waddles just isn't cutting it." She whispered.

Waddles, Mabel's pig oinks as he and Gompers chews on a newspaper.

Fids smiles he loved the pig for being such a great companion, but sometimes he felt like Waddles might be a bad influence.

"Oh yeah I can watch Gompers with you." Stan said. "How hard can that be?"

"Great!" Ford exclaimed. "It's a huge help, Cooper will be filling in for me for the rest of the week, so Fids and I are going to go do some research." He added as Fids got down from the ladder.

"Okay have fun…I guess." Stan said.

"Don't forget I get your paycheck this week." Copper reminded him.

"I know, I may need half of it for supplies though." Ford admitted. "But I'll make up for it next week."

Cooper shrugs. "Works for me, have fun nerds."

Heather gives him a playful punch as she follows Fids and Ford out.

"I didn't mean you." Cooper yells after them. "I meant the nerds who are actually doing research on summer break."

"Thank you!" Stan exclaimed. "At least someone gets it."

"Stanley be careful, and don't leave Gompers outside alone, he's still a kid and vulnerable to predators." Ford shouted back.

"We'll be fine!" Stan yells. He looks to Susan. "We got this right?"

Susan smiled. "Yeah." She was still kind of wrestling with her feeling with Stan. Now that he risked everything to save not one but two girls Susan was realizing that Stan had somethings a lot of guys his age didn't have; loyalty and devotion. Sure he treated her like a prize to be won when they first met, but maybe she had judged him too soon.

"What do you think, Gompers?" Stan asked. "Dance party?"

Gompers bleated in response.

"I'm not hearing a no," Susan joked.

Stan smiles and turned the 'Open' sign to 'Closed', before turning on the radio. The two start dancing as Buddy and Cooper finish their task. They ate popsicles off the floor, wore sunglasses and took selfies with Gompers and Waddles.

"Yes, yes, yes!" Stan cheered as the music came to a stop, he and Susan fell to the ground, tired out. Gompers walked up and licked them.

"Uh oh, cuddle time!" Susan giggled as she and Stan took turns hugging Waddles and Gompers.

"You guys are the best." Susan says as she yawns.

"Time for some serious z's." Stan said as the goat and Pig curled up together.

"Agreed." Susan said as she and Stan used their furry friends as pillows.

The two yawned, falling asleep as Cooper and Buddy finish up.

"Why do I feel like they got the easy job?" Bud asked.

"Cause they did." Cooper shook his head.

Just then Mabel entered the gift shop, counting money. She yelps, started when she tripped over the sleeping kids. "Wha- Stan? Sue?" Mabel said. "What are you doing on the floor?"

"Nap time." Stan grumbled.

Mabel smiles. "Ah you kids are so nice keeping Waddles and Gompers company, to be honest I think they've been feeling left out of the fun lately."

"Yeah Ford says Gompers has been more anxious." Susan said getting up.

"It could be a predator." Mabel said thoughtfully. "Waddles use to get edgy around the woods at night when he was a piglet."

"Poor baby." Susan hugs Gompers. "It's okay, we'll keep you safe."

"The shop is ready for the end of the day inspection Ms. Pines." Bud said grabbing their attention.

Mabel picks up Ford's clipboard and looks over his inventory report before giving a low whistle. "Well that's a mighty fine job." She praised. "And I see the filters were changed and the shelfs looks spotless. Boy your family would be enraged if they knew you were helping out like this."

"I know, but Ford has helped me so much, I feel like I owe him you know?" Bud said shyly. "Besides it's for a good cause."

"Yes the depletion of summer break is always good." Mabel joked.

"See she gets it." Stan said.

"Don't get me wrong I think it's great to keep the brain in practice." Mabel explained. "but Ford spends a bit too much time with his head in a book…"

(Back with Ford…)

"Well no luck on my weirdness magnetisms theory." Ford said, feeling disappointed. "Guess we'll be putting that on the back burner."

"Ah don't be down Ford." Fids said. "There has to be something, I mean there's no way the Author found out everything in that journal through trial and error. Something or someone had to of taut him."

Ford knew he was right, but the dead end about his theory wasn't his only concern, of course Fids could see that as clear as day.

"So what else is on your mind?" he asked.

"It's Gompers." Ford admitted, picking out some books on perpetual motion. "Something has him spoked, he's more edgy, he won't sleep and he refuses to go to the bathroom outside."

"Well I heard whisper on the way over this morning that somethings been ripping roofs off of cars." Fids admitted.

"Fids!" Ford shouted a bit too loud.

"Shhhh!" Everyone hushed him.

Ford whispers sorry before looking back at his friend. "Why didn't you mention that sooner?"

"Well there is always talk here in town." Fids said. "And I didn't want to get distracted from the project."

"But don't you see this could be our project!" Ford explained. "If we can get proof of this thing we could show the world the supernatural exist and we can prove your dad isn't crazy."

Fids hadn't thought of that. In fact with all the craziness that was this summer he had forgotten his original reasons for investigating the town's strange wonders in the first place.

"So we do a project on this creature?" Heather asked popping out from the corner, and scaring the daylights out of Fids.

His scream earn them another chorus of "SHHHHHHH!"

"Worth a shot." Ford finally answered leading to the checkout counter. "But we'll take these books as back up."

Fids nods and soon the three are back in Heather's treehouse in the woods.

"Been a while since we've been here." Fids said.

"Yeah well this place is too small for the whole gang." Heather reasoned.

"True." Ford looks thoughtful. "We'll need to set up some cameras and a way to trigger them."

"String?" Heather suggested.

"Good idea." Fids praised as they set to work, it took over an hour, but several cameras and strings had been set up and now they just had one more.

"Here, give me a boost," Ford said.

Fids and Heather help Ford up so he can set up the last camera.

"Got it." Ford said and slides down the sap-covered tree.

"Oh gross." Heather says. "What is that?"

"Looks like sap." Fids answered. "A weird amount for such a heathy tree." He noted.

Ford ignores the grossness and starts to explain the plan. "If everything goes right, the creature will grab that steak, cross through the string, and set off cameras A, B, and C," Ford pointed to each item as he listed them.

"And nothing can go wrong!" Fids smiled.

"High six!" Heather asked.

The three friends high five, but their hands stuck together due to the sap.

"This was poorly planned," Ford sighed. Suddenly they heard a loud roar as something swooped past them. The cameras went off, and when they looked, the steak was missing. The ropes were also broken.

"I…I think we got him." Fids exclaimed.

(Back with Stan…)

Back at the shack Stan and the gang were busy watching TV with Gompers and Waddles sitting between them.

"Hey, you!" A man on TV said.

"Me?" the man said.

Stan looked at the clock next to the TV, Ford and the others sure were taking a while.

"Sick of constantly dropping your baby?" The TV showed a man holding a baby under one arm and eating a slice of pizza with the other.

"Yes," the man nodded.

"Hi, I'm Bobby Renzobbi!" A second man appeared on screen. "And what you need is the Huggy Wuvvy Tummy Bundle!"

"I can hold ten babies at once!" The man smiled.

"Why would you need to?" cooper asked.

"I know what you're thinking: Does it work for goats?" Bobby said. "Ah ha ha, yeah it does work for goats, stupid! Feel your goat's heartbeat next to yours! IT WORKS FOR GOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATS!"

Susan gasped. "I think that's what Gompers needs!"

"What do you mean?" Bud asked.

"Babies feel safer when you hold them to your chest, maybe Gompers would too." Susan explained. "We need to buy one!"

"No need." Mabel said as she got up. "I got something similar for Waddles when he was a piglet. Don't know why I didn't think of it before." She goes to her room to fish it out of her closet.

Gompers wines and pees on the floor.

"No buddy not in the TV room." Susan whispers.

"It's okay I'll take him out." Stan says as he gets up. It took some work but he managed to force Gompers outside.

"Man, something really has you worked up." Stan sighed as Gompers looks around before moving further away to do his business. Stan stomach growls man he had been so busy looking after Gompers he hadn't ate all afternoon. "Come on buddy let's go inside."

Gompers makes a soft sound, but makes no move to come back inside.

Stan looks around, everything looks peaceful and Gompers beats happily as he munches on grass. Maybe it would okay to leave him outside for a few minutes. He could make a quick sandwich and watch Gompers from the window. "Okay, I'll be back buddy, you stay close." Stan walks back inside.

Waddles oinks happily as he returns but seems put off by the absence of his young companion. The pig races to the door, just in time to see something big swooped down and snatched Gompers with its talons.

Stan turns at the sound of Waddles blood curling squeal and see Gompers bleating loudly as he was carried off by...

"Dinosaur!"

-To Be Continued