Sorry I haven't updated this in a while. I've been busy updating my Phineas and Ferb fic and dealing with the knowledge that Bill is in my mind now.

He does occasionally give me intrusive thoughts, but thankfully, with no portal in our world, he's basically harmless. I've taken the time to introduce him to his adoring fans.

To all you people that ship me and Dipper, you suck.

For once, I can agree with you. Bill.

Anyway, on with the story.

The Pines family parked at the nearby store, right over the blocker.

"Here we are," said Stan. "Spirit Summerween."

"Wait, Summer what?" Dipper asked.

"Summerween." Stan showed a calendar. "The people in this town love Halloween so much, they celebrate it twice a year, hence Summerween, which is today."

"Do you always carry that calendar in your pocket?"

Stan looked away hesitantly, before finally answering. "Yes."

"Summerween?" Mabel wondered. "Something about this feels unnatural."

"There's free candy," said Soos.

Dipper and Mabel looked at each other for a second before smiling.

"To the costume aisle!" the twins cheered as they raced into the store.

Soos walked around until he found these little skull toys. He pressed the skull nervously.

"I'd lend you a hand, but I don't seem to have any," the skull said. "Ha ha ha! Ha ha ha!"

Soos chuckled. "This guy tells it like it is."

"Sir, could you please stop doing that?" an overworked employee asked.

"Make these less hilarious and you got yourself a deal."

The employee sighed before walking away.

Stan found some barrels of fake blood.

"When the children come to my door tonight, they're gonna run away screaming from Stan Pines, Master of Fright!" he laughed. He then turned and noticed a nearby baby being carried by his mother. "Boo!"

The baby started crying.

The same employee from earlier heard the baby crying. She turned and saw Stan's fake blood barrel leaking, Soos pushing all the skulls, and the twins running around like children.

"Have the police come and eject the Pines family from the premises," she said to someone on a walkie.

"Not today!" Stan screamed.

Stan threw a smoke bomb, blinding the employee long enough for the family to escape.

"You paid for this stuff, right?" Mabel asked as the four got in the car.

"Of course," Stan lied.

The employee looked at the 'Stan Buck' she was given. It was just a poorly made counterfeit dollar with Stan's face on it instead of Washington's.

"I hate Summerween," she complained.

Play Gravity Falls Intro Music

A bus stops in the small town of Gravity Falls. Dipper and Mabel get off the bus. In front of them is the town's star attraction, The Mystery Shack. Their great-uncle, Stan, invites them inside.

The twins look around the shack. They're both curious about everything.

Later, the Pines investigate a strange footprint with four toes instead of five. None of them realize they're standing in a much larger footprint.

DIPPER

Dipper looks around a cave holding a candle for light. He comes across a strange skeleton that scares him. He drops his candle, getting rid of his only source of light.

MABEL

Mabel stands in a room wearing a purple sweater with stars, her name, and a rainbow. She plugs an outlet into her sweater, causing it to glow.

STAN

Stan tells the twins, Wendy, and Soos a scary story. Soos and the twins are terrified while Wendy is completely unfazed. However, none of them notice the scary creature behind them.

WENDY

Wendy sits in front of the cash register, minding her own business. She doesn't notice the nearby jar of eyeballs turning to face her.

SOOS

Soos spins around the living room wearing multiple jewels on his clothes. Mabel shines a flashlight, and the light reflects off of the jewels creating a beautiful lightshow.

Dipper and Mabel lay in their room. Mabel reads a girl magazine while laying on the floor. Dipper reads a journal while laying on his bed. After a second, everyone and everything begins to float off the ground. Dipper is the only one who notices something off.

End Intro

One Cruel Summer

Chapter 10

Summerween

"I'm so excited!" Mabel said as she sat next to Dipper. "We're gonna have the best costumes, get the most candy, and have the biggest stomach aches ever!"

"Yeah!" Dipper cheered as the twins high-fived.

"I've never seen either of you so pumped," Soos remarked. He was now wearing a shirtless superhero costume.

"Back home, me and Dipper were kinda the king and queen of trick-or-treating," Mabel explained as she showed a Halloween scrapbook she made. She showed different photos of their matching costumes, like salt and pepper. "Twins in costumes, the people eat it up."

"You dudes better be careful out there. It's a night of ghouls and goblins, not to mention…" Soos turned off the lights, turned on a flashlight, and pointed it at himself for dramatic effect. "The Summerween Trickster. The Trickster goes door to door, so the legend goes, eating children who lack the Summerween spirit."

"You don't have to worry about us," said Dipper. "We've got plenty of spirit to go around." Dipper tried to eat a piece of candy, just to choke on it. He was able to cough it out. "What is this stuff? I've never even heard of these brands." He looked at the different candies. "Sand Pop? Gummy Chairs? Mr. Adequate-Bar? These are all cheap knockoffs!"

"Quiet your discontent, dude," Soos warned. "Lest the Trickster overhear."

Dipper rolled his eyes. "Your cape is caught in your fly, Soos."

Soos looked down to see his cape was caught. "Touche."

"Goodbye loser candy," Dipper said as he threw the candy out the window.

That's when he heard the doorbell ring.

"Trick-or-treaters!" Stan shouted. "Quick, give them that terrible candy!"

Dipper grabbed the bowl and went to answer the front door.

He was surprised to see none other than Wendy at the door. He screamed and dropped the bowl of candy.

"'Sup, Dipper?" she greeted.

"Wendy!" Dipper blushed as he backed off. He accidentally hit his leg against the stairs. "What's up, guys?"

"I left my jacket here again." Wendy noticed the bowl of candy. "What's with the candy? Are you gonna go trick-or-treating?"

"Actually, uh…" Dipper couldn't bring himself to say anything.

"What am I saying? Of course you're not going."

Dipper chuckled nervously. "Yeah. Trick-or-treating is for babies."

"You should come to this party with me and my friends. Tambry's parents are out of town and it's gonna be off the chain."

Wendy gave Dipper a flier.

TAMBRY'S SUMMERWEEN PARTY

BOTTLES WILL BE SPUN

NO PHOTOS BETTER END UP ONLINE!

9:00

Dipper noticed Wendy about to leave. Seeing his chance, he took it.

"Wendy, I'll see you at the party!" he shouted.

"It's at nine!" Wendy said as she got in Tambry's car with the rest of her friends. "Don't forget!"

Dipper watched as the car drove away. He then looked at Mabel's scrapbook and the flier. He didn't know what to choose.

"What am I gonna tell Mabel?" he asked himself.

Later, Mabel and her friends were talking when Stan showed up.

Stan was dressed like a vampire.

Mabel was dressed up as Batgirl.

Candy was dressed up as, well, candy.

Grenda was dressed up as a witch.

Evan had a more interesting costume. He wore starry pajamas that were dark blue on one side, and light gray on the other. He wore a purple nightcap that covered the back of his head. Some of his face was painted blue, making the unpainted part look like a crescent moon.

"Grunkle Stan, meet my best friends, Evan, Candy, and Grenda," Mabel introduced.

"I am so sweet I can eat myself," said Candy.

"Hello, Mr. Pines!" Grenda waved hello.

"You got a cold, honey?" Stan asked, uncomfortable hearing Grenda's masculine voice. "Something wrong with your voice, there?"

"What do you mean? Why would you say that?"

Stan left without saying another word.

"Is Waddles coming?" Evan asked.

"I wish he could, but he's got important meetings to attend," Mabel replied. That's when Waddles showed up dressed as a businessman. Mabel picked him up and imitated him. "File these documents under 'I' for 'I have a curly tail.'"

All four laughed at Mabel's joke.

"What about your brother?" asked Grenda.

"Oh man, just wait until you see Dipper's costume," Mabel replied. "It's amazing! Here he comes now!"

Dipper showed up in his usual outfits.

"That is a very good Dipper costume," Candy remarked.

Mabel knew better. She approached Dipper, concerned.

"What the hey, bro," she said. "Where's your costume?"

"I can't go trick-or-treating," Dipper replied. "I'm really sick. Must've been that bad candy. Go on without me."

"Fight it, man. Where's your Summerween spirit?"

That's when they heard a bang on the door. Dipper answered. A strange tall man dressed as a faceless scarecrow was at the door with a treat bag.

"Trick or treat!" he said menacingly.

"Aren't you a little old for this?" Dipper asked, suspicious.

"No. You're never too old for free candy."

Dipper slammed the door without saying another word.

"Dipper, why?" Mabel asked.

"I told you, I'm not feeling it tonight," Dipper replied before faking a cough.

Mabel wasn't buying it. "I think a little trick-or-treating might make you feel better."

"I'm not trick-or-treating!" That's when they heard another knock on the door. Dipper answered to see it was the same scarecrow. "I told you, go bother someone else!"

Dipper slammed the door again.

"Dipper, where's your Summerween hospitality?!" Mabel yelled.

They heard a louder bang on the door.

"I'm not getting it," said Dipper.

"Well I am!" said Mabel. Mabel answered the door. "I apologize for my brother. He came down with a case of the grumpy-grumps…"

"Silence!" the scarecrow yelled. "You have insulted me, and for this you must pay, with your lives!"

"Twick or tweat!" came a five-year-old boy. "I'm Gorney."

The scarecrow grabbed Gorney, opened an inhumane mouth, and swallowed the kid whole.

"AH!" everyone screamed.

"Gorney!" Grenda shouted.

"There's only one way to avoid his fate," said the scarecrow. "I need a treat. If you can collect 500 pieces of candy, and bring them to me before the last jack-o-melon goes out, I'll let you live. The choice is yours, children. You must trick-or-treat… or die."

The kids watched as the scarecrow climbed on top of the shack and disappeared into the darkness.

"Mabel, do you know what this means?" Dipper asked.

"I do," Mabel replied with a grin. "It means you have to come trick-or-treating! Yay!"

"Who was that?" Evan asked.

"It's the legend Soos told us about," Dipper realized. "The Summerween Trickster."

Evan started to panic. "What do we do?!"

"What's going on out here, dudes?" Soos asked as he entered the scene. "I heard a ruckus. That's a funny word."

"Soos, a monster's forcing us to trick-or-treat by threatening to eat us," Dipper explained.

"I got a picture," Evan added as he showed a picture he took.

"The Summerween Trickster," Soos recognized. "Oh man, dude. You guys are in trouble!"

"How are we gonna get 500 pieces of candy in one night?" Dipper paced back and forth in a panic. "There's no way!"

Mabel climbed on top of a haystack and clapped her hands to get everyone's attention. "Listen up, people! Some might say that being cursed by a bloodthirsty holiday monster is a bad thing, but that monster messed with the wrong crew! With Candy's spirit, Grenda's strength, Evan's perseverance, Dipper's brains, and… Soos here, we'll get 500 pieces of candy and have fun doing it too, even if it takes all night!"

Dipper remembered that the party was at 9:00. It was currently 6:00. He knew there was no way they could get 500 pieces of candy in three hours.

"Guys, I'm sick, remember?" he continued to lie.

"Bro, what's worse?" Mabel replied. "Getting eaten or going trick-or-treating with us?"

Mabel didn't give Dipper time to answer the question. She grabbed his hand and carried him away.

Dipper carried a little cart for the candy while everyone else carried treat bags.

"I don't see why we can't just buy the candy and be done with it," Dipper said.

"We aren't made of money, Dipper," Mabel reminded. "And besides, that kinda takes the fun out of trick-or-treating."

The gang reached the house of Lazy Susan.

"Trick or treat!" all of them except Dipper said.

"Is everybody in costume?" Susan asked as she looked at each kid and gave then nicknames. Grenda. "Chimney sweep…" Soos. "Elephant man…" Candy. "Squeegee…" Mabel. "Bat girl." And Dipper. "What are you supposed to be?"

"I'm not…" Dipper was about to say.

"He's a moody teenager who doesn't like Halloween!" Mabel interrupted.

Susan looked at the twins skeptically before relenting. She gave each of the kids one piece of candy.

"Enjoy!" she said before slamming the door.

Candy looked at her piece. "Black licorice? This is loser candy!"

"Five pieces of candy?" Dipper reacted. "This will take forever!"

"We gotta up our game," said Mabel. "You gotta put on your costume!"

Seeing no other choice, Dipper finally sighed and relented.

"Introducing for the first time in public," Mabel announced. Dipper came out wearing a Robin costume. "Ta-da! Batgirl and Robin!"

"Ah," everyone else said in unison.

"I'll make you two internet famous," Evan said as he pulled out his phone.

"Erase that!" Dipper demanded. "Let's just get this over with, okay?"

"Over with! Over with!" everyone else cheered as they marched on.

"Are you sure this is gonna work?" Dipper asked as he rang the doorbell.

A tall, edgy man answered the door. He stared at them menacingly.

Dipper threw a birdarang in a random direction. Mabel used her grappling hook to pull a nearby tin can towards her.

"Twins!" they said in unison.

The man smiled and shed a tear. He then dumped the entire bowl of candy into their bags.

The twins met up with the rest as they filled the cart with candy.

Mabel was counting the amount of candy she was putting in the bag. "34, 35…"

"Thirty-six," Candy interrupted as she jumped in the cart.

They both giggled at Candy's joke.

They continued splitting up and visiting houses to get as much candy as possible.

After a while, they managed to get a total of 499.

"We did it!" Mabel cheered. "All we need is one more piece of candy."

"And it's only 8:30," Dipper added as he checked his watch. "Perfect timing!"

"And your cough went away too," Mabel remarked as she hugged Dipper.

"Dude, I'm gonna go around and grab the truck," said Soos. "Soos away!"

"Last one to the final house is a pair of wax lips!" said Mabel.

Mabel and her friends raced to the last house.

"This is perfect," said Dipper. "I can go to Wendy's party and no one needs to know I went trick-or-treating."

That's when Dipper noticed Wendy coming by in a van. He quickly hid the candy behind a bush and took off his costume.

The van stopped. Wendy rolled down the window.

"Hey Dipper!" she called.

"Hey, Wendy," Dipper greeted, doing his best to act normal. "What's up?"

"Are you coming to the party? What are you doing out here?"

"I'm on my way. I like watching the trick-or-treaters. It reminds me of when I was a kid."

"Okay. You're coming, right?"

"Definitely." The van drove away. Dipper waved goodbye. "Later!"

"You're going to a party?" came Mabel's voice.

Dipper turned around to see Mabel and her friends staring at him with both shock and disappointment.

"Hey, I…" Dipper was interrupted when Mabel threw a piece of candy in his eye.

"That's why you were acting sick and trying to hurry us!" Mabel yelled. "If it wasn't for this crazy monster, you were gonna ditch me, on our favorite holiday! What happened to the Dipper who used to love Halloween?"

"Relax, I left it right here, behind this bush," Dipper assured as he pulled out the candy. Thankfully, it was all intact. Dipper picked up the piece of candy that was thrown at him and put it in the cart. "See? We got all the candy, just in time for the party, so now we all have the best of both worlds."

Mabel glared at Dipper, as if about to slap him.

"Guys, look!" Evan shouted.

Everyone looked to see that the jack-o-melons were all out. The Summerween Trickster approached them.

"Knock knock," he said menacingly. "So, children, where's my candy?"

"It's right here," Dipper replied as he grabbed the cart and gave it to the Trickster. "All 500 pieces."

The Trickster opened its big mouth and sucked all 500 pieces into it.

"So, we can go now, right?" asked Evan.

The Trickster laughed before reaching towards Dipper. It grabbed him and lifted him into the air.

"Dipper!" Mabel shouted.

She fired her grappling hook. Dipper grabbed onto it. Mabel pulled as hard as she could. It wasn't enough to save Dipper.

The Trickster yanked just a little, but it was just enough to pull Mabel into the air. He caught her in his other hand.

"Run!" Evan screamed.

He, Candy, and Grenda all tried to run away. The Trickster just sprouted three more arms and grabbed all three of them.

The Trickster laughed maniacally as it prepared to eat the kids…

Then a truck ran it over, causing it to shatter into a million pieces.

"We're alive!" Evan cheered.

The truck pulled over. The window opened to reveal Soos.

"That wasn't a regular pedestrian, was it?" he asked.

"Soos!" Dipper and Mabel smiled.

"It was the monster," Mabel explained.

"Thanks, Soos," Dipper thanked before turning to Mabel. "I'm just glad it's over. Right?"

Mabel simply looked away with a pout.

Dipper quickly went back to retrieve his Robin costume.

The kids got in the truck.

"Everyone remembered to put on their seatbelts?" Soos asked.

"Yes," most of the kids replied. Mabel just silently nodded.

As they drove off, Mabel noticed some bits of fuzz floating by. When she turned to get a better look, she realized the fuzz was the pieces of the Trickster.

"Guys!" she called.

Everyone turned to see the Trickster reform itself. It jumped onto the truck.

Soos managed to swerve and hit a lamppost. That forced the Trickster off the truck.

Unfortunately, Soos ended up losing control. He swerved right towards Spirit Summerween.

"Brakes, brakes, brakes!" Dipper screamed.

Soos managed to slam the brakes. Sadly, they hit the store's entrance, then the airbags came out, hitting everyone sitting in front.

All the kids coughed out the dust that came from the airbags.

Dipper noticed that Soos seemed to have fallen asleep.

"Soos, now's not the time to fall asleep!" he yelled. No response. "Soos! Soos?" Still no response. This made Dipper worried. "Oh no."

Evan turned around to see the Trickster gaining on them.

"We gotta go!" he said.

The kids got out of the truck and tried to get inside. Sadly, the truck blocked the door, so they couldn't get in through there.

"Stand back!" Grenda said as she grabbed a nearby stone.

Grenda swung her arm for a bit before throwing the stone at the window.

The window didn't break. The stone bounced right back. The kids had to duck to avoid getting hit. The stone hit the Trickster in the head, tearing it off.

The kids knew it wouldn't last. They needed to come up with something fast.

"Everyone, hold me!" Mabel eventually ordered.

Everyone grabbed onto Mabel. Evan did feel a bit weird holding Mabel's arm, but he did his best not to freak out.

Mabel grabbed her grappling hook and aimed it at the roof. She fired the hook, and it landed on the roof with no problem. The five of them were pulled off the ground. They screamed as they struggled to keep their grip.

After a few seconds, they landed on the roof. They stood up and got their bearings.

They turned and noticed the Trickster reattaching its head.

"How are we gonna stop this thing?" asked Evan.

"Leave that to me," Dipper replied.

Everyone turned around to see Dipper back in his Robin costume.

"Where'd you go, children?" the Trickster asked as he looked around.

"Over here, scarecrow!" Dipper shouted.

Dipper stood on the edge of the roof and spread his cape out as far as he could.

Dipper then jumped off the roof, intending to glide towards the monster. Sadly, gravity had other plans, and he fell straight down, flat on his face.

"Dipper!" Mabel shouted.

"Girls, I found a way in!" Evan called.

The girls turned to Evan, who gestured towards a small door. Seeing no other option, they all went through it.

Thankfully, the door led them into the store. They looked through the window and saw the Trickster holding Dipper.

As upset as she was, Mabel was genuinely worried for Dipper.

She noticed a barrel of fake blood and got an idea.

The four friends grabbed the barrel and flipped it sideways.

"Alright, on three," said Mabel. "One, two…"

Evan got extremely nervous, and pushed the barrel too soon. The barrel started rolling towards the window.

The girls glared at Evan. He smiled nervously and blushed in embarrassment. "Sorry."

The barrel slowed down the closer it got to the window. Once it reached the window, the barrel hit it a tiny bit.

After a second, the glass started to crack until it shattered completely.

Grenda was dumbfounded. "So it works for you and not for me?"

While the Trickster was distracted keeping glass shards from getting in its eyes, Mabel snuck behind it and grabbed Dipper, pulling him to safety.

The twins made a run for it before they could be found. They managed to find an empty bottom shelf to hide under.

Candy and Grenda found another shelf. They hid under that one.

Sadly, there was no room for Evan. He had to hide behind the aisle.

"Everyone, stay quiet," Dipper whispered.

"Oh, now you're worried about the monster?" Mabel asked. "I thought all you cared about was Wendy."

"Mabel, you know that isn't true." Dipper had to quiet down when he heard the Trickster pass by. "I just felt I was getting a little too old to go trick-or-treating."

"That's exactly why we need to go trick-or-treating, Dipper. We're getting older, and there's not many Halloweens left." Mabel cried as the memory of the argument came back to her. "For all we know, this is our last one."

"We have to escape," said Candy.

"What if it sees us?" asked Grenda.

"If only there was something we could use to cover our bodies and faces with, like a disguise," said Evan.

Dipper and Mabel looked at each other as an idea came to their minds.

It took a few seconds, but the kids managed to disguise themselves as cloaked skeletons using the costumes on the shelves. When the Trickster wasn't looking, they went to another shelf.

The Trickster passed by them. It hit a clothing hanger, where Candy and Grenda were hiding.

Thankfully, the Trickster didn't notice them. The kids quickly headed for the exit.

As they ran, Evan accidentally hit one of the talking skull toys. He realized his mistake and was able to grab it before it could fall.

He sighed in relief and placed his hand against the shelf. He accidentally pressed another one of the skulls.

"No matter the score, I'm always ahead!" it said. "Ha ha ha! Ha ha ha!"

The Trickster noticed Evan. It ate him before he had the chance to react.

"Evan!" the girls screamed.

"Hey monster!" Dipper called.

The four removed their cloaks to reveal plastic weapons. They ran towards the monster and tried chopping it up.

Grenda successfully used her ax to chop off the monster's arm. Some crumbs fell onto her face. She licked them out of curiosity.

"Saltwater taffy?" she reacted. "Gross!"

Dipper felt some crumbs land on his tongue as well.

"It is," he said. "How?"

"You haven't figured it out yet?" the Trickster asked as he grabbed all of them. "Don't you recognize me? Look at my face. Look closely."

Everyone got a closer look at the face. It was made of candy.

"Loser candy," Mabel realized.

"That's right," said the Trickster. "Did you ever stop to think about the candy at the bottom of the bag that no one likes? Every year the children of Gravity Falls throw away all of the 'rejected candy' into the dump, so I seek revenge on the picky children who cast me aside. I'm made of every piece of black licorice, every discarded bar of old chocolate with that white powder, you know what I'm talking about?"

"Yes, and I hate that stuff."

"No one would eat me, so I'm gonna eat you…"

Before the Trickster could finish, he felt someone biting his leg. He turned to see a certain overweight middle-aged man eating his leg.

"'Sup?" he asked nonchalantly.

The Trickster started puking out little bits of candy as it fell to the floor.

"Dudes, you want some of this?" Soos asked as he offered some of the candy to the kids. They all shook their heads.

"Wait, you actually think I taste good?" the Trickster asked.

"Sure, you know."

"All I ever wanted was for someone to say I was good." The Trickster cried tears of candy corn. "I'm so happy."

"The crying makes it weird, but I guess I'm still eating it."

That's when Evan and Gorney climbed out of the stomach.

"'Sup, you two?" said Soos.

"I've been twaumatized!" Gorney shouted while keeping his smile.

"Yeah, me too," Evan said as he shivered in fear.

The gang returned to the Mystery Shack.

"Hey, Grunkle Stan," the twins said in unison.

"Hello, Mr. Pines," said the rest.

"How's it hanging?" Stan asked.

Dipper turned and noticed Wendy carving a jack-o-melon.

"Hey, Dipper," she waved. "I didn't see you at the party. Where were you?"

Dipper was hesitant to tell the truth, but Mabel gave him a thumbs-up. That was all he needed.

"I was trick-or-treating with my sister," he said with a confident smile.

"I'm sorry you missed the party, but I'm glad you had fun," said Wendy. "Robbie ate one lollipop stick and had to go home sick."

"At least he had a candy," said Mabel. "We went to every single house but we didn't get to eat any candy."

"Candy?" Stan reacted as he revealed two large sacks of candy. "How's that for candy?"

The twins smiled at each other.

"And now back to The Nightmare on Elm Street," said the announcer on TV.

Everyone sat and ate as much candy as they could while enjoying the movie marathon. Mabel bandaged up the scrapes Dipper got on his face from falling off the roof.

"You know, kids?" said Stan. "I've been thinking, Summerween isn't about candy or costumes or even scaring people. It's a day where friends and family can get together in one place and celebrate what really matters, pure evil!"

Stan started laughing maniacally. Instead of questioning it, everyone laughed with him for a bit before stopping abruptly.

"I ate a man alive tonight," Soos said calmly. Stan and Wendy turned to him, stunned.

Play "Nine to Five" by Dolly Parton

The next day, Mabel and Dipper took a set of pictures of everyone in their costumes.

Working nine to five, what a way to make a living

First they took a picture showing Grenda in her witch costume pretending to hypnotize Candy.

Barely getting by, it's all taking and no giving

The next picture showed Candy in her candy costume looking horrified while Grenda was making a maniacal laugh, as if she cursed Candy.

They just use your mind and they never give you credit

In the next one, Candy was gone. Instead, Waddles was there, implying Grenda turned Candy into a pig.

It's enough to drive you crazy if you let it

The next picture showed Dipper in his Robin costume throwing a birdarang at Grenda.

Nine to five, for service and devotion

The next picture showed Grenda dodging the birdarang.

You would think that I would deserve a fair promotion

The next one showed Mabel popping up in her Batgirl costume.

Want to move ahead but the boss won't seem to let me

The next one showed Mabel using her grappling hook to tie up Grenda.

I swear sometimes that man is out to get me

Finally, they took a picture of Waddles asleep, with Dipper and Mabel comforting him. There was an added caption, Pigged Out.

End "Nine to Five"

A.N.

Happy Summerween, ladies and gentlemen.

I was hoping I could hold off this episode and post it on Halloween, but given the pace I'm posting chapters, it's likely this story will be over by Halloween unless I hold off on purpose, which is something I'm not a fan of.

And besides, it was either this or Little Dipper. I've already mentioned in a previous Author's Note why I feel that episode isn't worth rewriting.

And yeah, you could say this episode was a Dipper torture porn too, but out of all the Dipper torture porns in Gravity Falls, Summerween was one of the better ones. It had many funny as well as dark moments, and it also explores the idea of Halloween during the summer.

I did change it so Tambry's party wasn't boring. Gravity Falls tends to make Mabel completely in the right through some excuse, and this episode is a prime example. The whole conflict is Dipper sacrificing going to a party with Wendy to go trick-or-treating with Mabel, yet the party being boring ruins the point of a sacrifice, as Dipper had nothing to lose in the first place.

This is only an example of how the show twists things to work out in Mabel's favor, but we'll get to that when we get to that.

Listen, I don't hate Mabel, but she can be really annoying, selfish, and hypocritical sometimes, and Alex doesn't acknowledge it nearly as much as he should.

Anyway, enough with the rant. What else should I mention?

You can always talk about Dipper and Wendy.

I know what you're saying, Bill. No, I'm not gonna pair them.

I know you want to.

JUST SHUT UP!

Pant. Pant. Pant. Sorry about that.

We get Candy and Grenda's first encounter with the supernatural, and this time, Evan's here too. I know he doesn't do much, but again, he's supposed to be a side character, not a self-insert who steals the main character's thunder.

Anyway, Evan's costume was a bit of an obvious choice. He goes as The Collector from The Owl House. It makes sense. Evan likes stars, and the Collector is heavily star-themed, so it makes sense. To be clear, that doesn't mean The Owl House is a show in-universe. It's basically confirmed at this point that Gravity Falls and The Owl House share a universe not just with each other, but Amphibia and possibly other disney shows. The costume's just supposed to be an easter egg.

Speaking of costumes, I changed Dipper and Mabel's theme from peanut butter and jelly to Batgirl and Robin. My memory's fuzzy, but I remember scrolling through a gallery of Moringmark comics and artworks for Gravity Falls, and one of them was an artwork of Mabel as Batgirl, and possibly Dipper as Robin. I felt this would be a perfect time to show off Mabel's grappling hook.

I do find it interesting that Alex tries to make a Chekhov's Gun, well, Chekhov's Grappling Hook in this case, but I also feel like the grappling hook was underutilized. It's introduced in the pilot, and only used in the finales of both seasons. My plan is to utilize the grappling hook a little bit more.

Anyway, that's all I have to say. Thanks for reading.