Hey, guys. Sorry, I took so long with this but after the Coronavirus nonsense and before that, preparing for my job interview, and some other "fanfiction" stuff, my work in Omni Falls has been stalled for a bit. To let you guys know, by the time I have this published, I'm going straight to chapter structuring and publishing for Chapter 3 and 4 (though it might take me a while to get it done). Overall, I plan on making this crisis into something positive, you know. So without further ado, enjoy the story.

Also, I don't own Gravity Falls or Ben 10. They belong to respective owners but it would be cool if I did. I'd probably be able to make a crossover like this official if I didn't have to deal with legal stuff.

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"Are you ready for the ultimate challenge?"

"I'm always ready!"

"Then you know what that means."

"Syrup Race!", the twins cheer, holding their syrup bottles high in the air as the sunrise comes in Gravity Falls. Dipper and Mabel flip their syrup bottles downwards, holding their mouths out and cheering on as they watch their sweet, savory nectar slowly dip down. For a few minutes, it seems Dipper will be coming in first until Mabel taps her bottle, causing the syrup to fall on her tongue.

"Yes!", she cheers for herself before choking a bit. "I won." Dipper laughs in defeat while he reads the Wacky Magazine. As he reads, something catches his attention.

"Whoa-ho-ho, no way!", Dipper exclaims, his attention rising before he shows the magazine to his twin. "Mabel, check this out."

She looks in the magazine but on the wrong page. "Human-sized hamster balls?", she gasps, "I'm human-size!"

"No, no, no. Not that.", Dipper shakes his head, before pointing to a monster photo contest ad. "This. We see weirder stuff than that every day, right? Wait. Do we have any photos of the gnomes?"

"Nope.", Mabel shakes her head before getting tuffs of gray hair out. "Just memories and some beard hair."

Dipper stares at her weirdly. "Why did you keep it?"

"No reason.", Mabel shrugs as she puts the gnome hair into her scrapbook. "Why not use your aliens for the contest? It'd be easier for you to just pick an alien and 'woosh!' You got your monster photo." Dipper looks at his sister, unsure on her proposition. On paper, it doesn't sound so bad. He can just morph into one of the aliens he's found and take a picture, but there are some downsides to this.

"As easy as it sounds", Dipper starts to explain, rubbing near his wrist where the mysterious watch is, "There's a few downsides to this, if I activate my watch and transform, someone might get curious and see me. It would feel like I'm cheating or like taking the easy way out."

Mabel looks at her brother and she understands where he's coming from. "Yeah, that makes sense."

Grunkle Stan comes into the kitchen."Morning, knuckleheads. Guess what day it is?." Dipper looks confused as he looks at his grunkle.

"Uh...Happy Anniversary?", Dipper answers, unsure what Stan is getting at. Mabel just shouts "Mazel Tov!", but the grunkle just hits his nephew on the head.

"Not even close.", Stan grumbles before he gets back to what he's saying, smiling as he goes into the refrigerator. "Today's Family Fun Day. We're cuttin' off work and have one of those, you know…..bonding type deals."

The twins look at their grunkle, skepticism and unease is present on their faces. "Grunkle Stan, will this be anything like our last bonding day?", Dipper asks, not wanting to have a repeat of what happened when their grunkle wanted to spend time with them. The twin cringe at the memory of them being in the county jail.

"The county jail was so cold.", Mabel whimpers, remembering how freezing the jail cell was.

"Alright, alright. Maybe I haven't been the best summer ", Stan admits, "But I swear, today we're going to have some real family fun. Now who wants to put on some blindfolds and get into my call?"

"Yay!" Yay-wait, what?"

o-o-o-o-o-o-o

The ride itself is very bumpy. Dipper is feeling anxious while Mabel, on the other hand, feels rather distracted. "Whoa whoa!", Dipper exclaims before sighing, "Blindfolds never lead to anything good."

"I don't know, Dipper.", Mabel replies, holding her hands out. "I don't think it's all bad. I can feel like all my other senses are heightened. I can see with my fingers!." She puts her hands on his face, making him laugh before the car hits a bump.

"Jeez, Grunkle Stan, are you wearing a blindfold, too?", Dipper asks nervously, as he holds onto his seat.

"Ha ha. Nah". Stan chuckles, pointing to his eyes, driving haphazardly, "But with these cataracts I might as well be. What is that, a woodpecker?" The next thing he knows, he crashes through the wooden guardrail, the car driving downhill as the twins scream. The ride continues to be reckless before the car stops. Stan gets out before telling Dipper and Mabel to do so.

"Okay, open 'em". Stan tells them, grinning. The twins unfold their blindfolds to see the surroundings they were in. There's a large body of freshwater near the town of Gravity Falls, stretching several miles wide and having depth found in different areas with a murkish blue hue shimmering from the midday sun and a waterfall found near the far edge. Every denizen from the town is here today, both young and old, friends and family, all arriving with boats and fishing gear.

This is Lake Gravity Falls.

"It's finishing season!", the twins' grunkle exclaims, donning his fishing gear and smiling. The Pine twins are confused by their uncle's sudden need for this activity.

"Fishing?". Mabel asks.

"Grunkle Stan, is this a joke?", Dipper questions, skeptical of his grunkle's urgency to go spend time with him and his sister

"Come on, kid.", Stan insists."You're gonna love it! The whole town's out here!" He's not wrong; as the various denizens are enjoying themselves from fishing, taking pictures of captured fish, to even beating up caught fish. Despite this, Dipper has his doubts and looks back at his grunkle.

"That some quality family bonding", Stan compliments, enjoying the show of bizarre family bonding.

Dipper isn't buying this. "Grunkle Stan, is there a reason you wanna bond with us all of a sudden?"

"What? You kids are gonna enjoy it." Stan expresses, enthusiastically, "I never had fishing buddies. Almost all of the guys at the lodge won't go with me. They don't 'like' me or 'trust' me." He puts emphasis on those words through air quotes.

"Almost?", Mabel asks, confused by what her grunkle means.

"There's one guy I really don't want to talk to or be around. Some guy that has a fetish with harpoons.", Stan clarifies, "Really don't like the guy."

Mabel looks at her brother. She pulls him to whisper, "Dipper, I think he actually wants to fish with us." Before Dipper can respond, Stan puts hats on his and Mabel's head.

"Pow! Pines family fishing hats! That's hand stitching, you know.", Stan asks. The twins take off their hats to observe them: Dipper's hat has the word "Dippy" while Mabel's hsd her name on it, except the L is peeled. The twins look at each other with hesitancy, they aren't sure they would want to fish with their grunkle. They don't feel comfortable with this.

"Yeah, liking the hats, eh?", Stan asks them, laughing."Well, get ready cause it's just gonna be you, me and these goofy hats for ten hours!"

"Ten hours?!", Dipper asks in alarm by how long they are going to be here.

"Yep, I even got the joke book.", Stan answers, getting a book out of his jacket, 100 Yuke 'Em Ups.

"There has to be a way out of this.", Mabel says to her brother, sharing his reaction as he quietly says "No, no, no.". Something needs to stop this from happening.

Fortunately for the twins, it does.

"I SEEN IT! I SEEN IT AGAIN!"

The twins see an old gentleman wearing a tattered brown and a long white beard running from the docks, crashing into and overturning various things before heading to the shore. "The Gravity Falls Gobblewonker! Come quick before it scrabdoodles away!", the old man proclaims before he dances frantically.

"Aw, he's doing a happy jig.", Mabel giggles, only for the crazed individual to grab her. "NOOO! It's a jig of grave danger!" Before the crazy old man can continue, the lake ranger comes out and sprays him, Old Man McGucket, with a spray bottle.

"Hey, hey! Now what did I tell you about scaring my customers? This is your last warning, Dad!", the lake ranger warns.

"But I got proof this time, by gummity!", he protests.

"BEHOLD!", Old Man McGucket hollers, pointing at his destroyed boat. "It's the Gobble-dy-wonker what done did it! It had a long neck like a gee-raffe! And wrinkly skin like...like this gentleman right here!" He points to Stan, who was picking his ear. "It chewed my boat up to smitheroons, and shim-shamed over to! YOU GOTTA BELIEVE ME!"

The crowd remains silent before a police boat pulls up to the docks, carrying Sheriff Blubs and Deputy Durland. "Attention all units! We got ourselves a crazy old man!", the sheriff announces jokingly through a megaphone. Everyone but the Pine Twins and the ranger point and laugh at Old Man McGucket, the former because they feel sorry for him and the latter being silent contempt and disappointment.

"Aww, donkey spittle! Banjo polish!", the old man mumbles, walking away with his head hung in sadness.

"Well, that happened.", Stan speaks before steps into his rowboat and starts untying it from the dock. "Now let's untie this boat and get out on that lake!" When Stan heads to the docks to untie his worn, wooden rowboat, Dipper pulls Mabel in close.

"Mabel, did you hear what that old dude said?", Dipper asks.

"Aww, donkey spittle", Mabel repeats, mimicking Old Man McGucket's voice.

"No, no.", Dipper shakes his head, "The other thing. About the monster. If we can snag a photo of it, we can split the prize fifty-fifty."

Mabel gasps. "That's two fifties!"

"Imagine what you could do with five. Hundred. Dollars!", Dipper inists. Mabel is stuck in her imagination of running in a hamster ball before she comes back to reality. "Dipper, I am one million percent on board with this!"

"Grunkle Stan!", Dipper declares, getting Stan's attention. "Change of plans: we're taking that boat to Scuttlebutt Island, and we're gonna find that Gobblewonker!"

"Monster hunt! Monster hunt!", The Twins cheer. They continue to cheer until they hear honking is from a ship. The Pines family turn to the noise to see a moderate size boat come near the docks. On it is Soos and an old man in a pale vest and red cap.

"Hey, dudes.", Soos greets the Pines Twins

"Soos!" Mabel cheers, fist bumping the handyman.

"Is this your boat, Soos?", Dipper asks, curious as to how he managed to get a boat of this size.

"Ah, no, no.", Soos clarifies. "I'm only renting the boat after helping Captain Shaw make some chum."

Just as he says that, Captain Shaw comes near the hull with an impassive expression. Stan glares at him, he really doesn't want him here. Unfortunately for him, Shaw returns the glare with a scoff. The twins and Soos notice this and stay quiet and watch.

"Shaw", Stan greets coldly.

"Stanford", Shaw addresses, returning the gesture.

"Still polishing your harpoons?", Stan asks condescendingly.

"Yes, just as much as you're swindlin' at your Shack.", Shaw patronizes, "Anyway, Soos." Shaw responds, looking at the handyman. "If ye wanna bring your friends on here, ya better hurry it up. We're burning daylight." The captain heads back to the wheel.

"Oh, right.", Soos tells the twins. "You guys can come on board if you wanna go on, it has Sonar, high depth video set up, ultrasound-"

"Alright, alright.", Stan interrupts. "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!"

The twins look at the big boat with Soos and Captain Shaw and they look at Stan's small rowboat. They can stay with their grunkle and possibly sit in a dingy little rowboat, trying to catch catfish, along with him telling them jokes that are way out-of-touch or they can be with Soos and have an fun monster hunting adventure, discovering the Gobblewonker and gain prize money from it.

"So whaddya say?", Stan asks.

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"We made the right choice!", Mabel exclaims, excited as the boat speeds away from the docks with her and Dipper on board. Honestly, this is going to be an awesome hunt with her twin brother. And maybe, just maybe, she'll finally get her hamster ball.

"Alright.", Dipper begins."If we wanna win this contest, we've gotta do it right! Think. What's the number one problem with most monster hunts?"

"You're a side character, then you die within the first five minutes of the movie.",

Soos answers before getting scared of his safety."Dude, am I a side character?! Do ya ever think about stuff like that?"

"No, no, no. Camera trouble! Say Bigfoot shows up. Soos, be Bigfoot."

"'There he is! Bigfoot!'", Dipper exclaims, theatrically before patting his life vest."'Oh, no camera!'" He pulls the camera out of his jacket. "'Oh, wait, here's one! Aw, no film!' You see? You see what I'm doing here?

"Oh, yeah. Dude's got a point.", Soss agrees, Mabel nodding.

"That's why I bought seventeen disposable cameras!", Dipper informs them, revealing cameras as he lists off their locations. "Two on my ankle, three in my jacket, four for each of you, three extras in this bag, and one... under my hat! There's no way we're gonna miss this. Okay everybody, let's test our cameras out!"

Soos tries to take a photo, but he uses the camera, causing it to flash in his eyes, scaring him and throws it overboard. "Ah, sorry, dude."

"You see? This is exactly why you need backup cameras. We still have sixteen.", Dipper explains, glad that he took precautions for the cameras. Hopefully, they'll be able to keep enough of the cameras to-

"Ah, bird!", Mabel screams before throwing a camera at a seagull that is flying over her, which misses the bird and falls into the water.

"Fifteen! Okay, guys, I repeat; don't lose your cameras!", Dipper informs them. He can't afford to lose the cameras so early.

"Wait, lose the cameras?", Mabel asks with three cameras in her arm, ready to be thrown.

"DON'T!"

"Dude, I just threw two away.", Soos admits, pointing to the floating cameras.

"Alright, thirteen! We still have thirteen cameras-", Dipper tries to calm down, only to crush another one with his fist accidentally. "Twelve. We have twelve cameras."

"So what's the plan? Throw more cameras overboard or what?", Mabel asks, confused on what to do with the cameras.

"No, don't.", Dipper replies, before moving on. "Look, why don't you, me and Soos be on lookout?"

"What?", Mabel asks. "Why can't any of us be the captain?"

"Because since this is his ship, Shaw is the captain.", Dipper replies, pointing to his Shaw, who is focused on steering the ship.

"Oh, that makes sense.", Mabel expresses. She watches Dipper being one side of the boat, looking out for the lake monster. She heads near Captain Shaw. She notices a device hanging on the wall. It looks like a shotgun and a harpoon gun.

"Hey, Captain Shaw, what's this thing hanging on your wall?", Mabel asks, pointing to the weapon.

"Hm?", Shaw turns to where she's pointing. He looks back to the lake, answering her question. "That'd be a modified harpoon I made from scraps. I crafted it myself so I can catch the Gobblewonker in case if it's on land or if it's deep underwater."

"How were you able to make it?", Dipper follows up, turning his head to the Captain. He's curious as to how he is able to do this.

"I was an engineer in the Navy when I was a young lad.", Shaw answers.

"Hmm. I didn't know you worked in the military, Captain Shaw.", Soos speaks, eating some fish food. Shaw just turns to see him eating the fish food before he looks out at the lake and Scuttclebutt Island that was coming more into view.

"I don't tell everyone about my past.", Shaw explains. "Get yourselves ready, we're about to head to Scuttlebutt Island soon."

"Uh, Captain Shaw", Dipper asks the captain, "What does the Gobblwonker look like?" He wants to know what the beast looks like when he sees it.

"It has a long neck with grayish-like scales. It has a height of at least 15 feet and has two large teeth from its lower jaw.", Shaw responds, going through the details of the beast's description. "I remember seeing the beast when I was out fishing one night, as it destroyed my ship in a fit of rage. To this day, I haven't forgotten about that encounter and I hope to catch the beast." After taking in everything Captain Shaw says, Dipper thanks him and heads back near the side of the ship, watching as Scuttlebutt Island gets closer into view. His mind starts to think about contingencies, in case something happens if the Gobblewonker acts aggressively like Old man McGucket and Captain Shaw describes it. He looks down at his watch and thinks about it.

Hmm. It's not a good idea to use out in the open, especially around Soos or Captain Shaw. Dipper thinks. Hopefully, we can get the photo and I won't have to resort to using it. He's so focused on looking at the island that he doesn't pay attention to the pelican that lands near him. "Hey! How's it going?" Mabel greets the pelican. She grabs its bill, uses the bird as a ventriloquist dummy. "It's going awesome! Bow bow, buh bow bow!"

"Mabel, leave that thing alone.", Dipper scolds his sister, not looking at her.

"Aw, I don't mind none!", Mabel jokes as she makes the bird seem like it's talking. She stops for a moment to get a bottle of water. "Hey, look Dipper, I'm drinking water!", Mabel gets her brother's attention before chugging down the water while ventriloquizing the pelican. "Twinkle, twinkle little…", she stops as she chokes on the water, making the pelican fly away.

"Shouldn't you and Soos be on look out?", Dipper chastises, hiding his nervousness in the form of aggravation.

"Look out!", Mabel gasps. Dipper turns to where she's unaware of Mabel throwing a volleyball on his arm. Mabel laughs as he holds his arm, grumbling. "But seriously, it's all good. Captain Shaw would let us know when we're there."

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Grunkle Stan watches as the boat harboring Dipper and Mabel gets closer to Scuttlebutt Island. "Traitors!", the Old Pine yells at the far away boat. The twerps would rather be on a monster hunt than spend time with him, well fine then. He doesn't need them. "Ah, I'll find my own fishing buddies.", Stan declares to himself. He looks around and sees a couple sitting in a boat up ahead. "Ah!", Stan beams as he starts his boat's engine, heading over to them "There's my new pals!"

Upon closer inspection, the young man of this couple was about to propose. Grunkle being ignorant to this heads towards them. "Hey!", Stan calls to the couple, pulls his boat up to theirs, completely disregarding their appalled expression on their faces. "Wanna hear a joke? Here goes. My ex-wife still misses me...but her aim is gettin' better!" There's no laughs, not even a chuckle from the couple, only looks of abhorrence from his offensive joke."Y'see, it's funny cause marriage is terrible."

There is silence before the couple rows away, not even glancing or responding back at the conman.

"Was it something I said?"

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The quartet disembarks from the ship and ventures into the foggy woods. Captain Shaw is a few feet ahead of them, making Dipper be the one leading the while carrying a flashlight. They soon come to a large sign nailed to a tree that says "Scuttlebutt Island." Soos and Mabel stop in front of it.

"Dude, check it out.", Soos gets Mabel's attention and covers the "Scuttle" part of the sign. "Butt Island."

"Soos, you rapscallion!", Mabel chortles. She looks at Dipper, whose focus on looking across the foggy background. "Hey. Why aren't you laughing? Are you scared?"

"What?", Dipper questions looking at his twin, "Mabel, I'm not-" Mabel pokes him on the nose, with a teasing grin.

"Yeah, you are.", Mabel teases, blowing a raspberry and continues to poke her brother in the face.

"Hey! Quit it...! Stop it, Mabel!", Dipper tries to make her stop to no avail until she unintentionally pokes him in the eye. "Ow!" Dipper holds his eye, wincing. Mabel gasps at what she's done.

"Oh, I'm sorry, Dipper", Mabel apologizes. Dipper lets go of his eye, despite it being closed.

"No, no. It's fine.", Dipper waves his hand before turning around. "You didn't mean to-Uagh!" He trips and falls into a small mud pit. Mabel and Soos gasp before helping Dipper up.

"Dude, you ok?", Soos asks.

"Yeah, I'm ok.", Dipper replies before he gets the flashlight that conked out. Good thing I left the journal back on the boat, Dipper thinks, really grateful that he didn't have the book in his life vest. He fishes for it but he feels something else…..something slimy. Realizing this, he grabs it and it looks like a dirty ball. But on further exception, it's a slimy sphere with grayish green color, including dark green veins pulsing. And on top of that, it is warm.

"Whoa, what is that", Mabel asks, astonished.

"It looks like a dirty beach ball", Soos curious to what the young Pine is holding.

"I don't think so, Soos", Dipper honestly answers. "I think this is an egg."

Captain Shaw comes back to the group with his harpoon gun in hand with a look of interest as he looks at the egg Dipper is holding. "What is that?", He asks, his eyes not leaving the sphere.

"I think Dipper found an egg", Soos answers, looking fascinated by this bizarre object.

"And not just any egg", Dipper adds on, inspecting like a scientist looking under a microscope. "Judging by the color of it and the minor warmth I feel from it, it looks like it belongs to the Gobblewonker."

"Are you sure", the Captain asks, wanting to be certain, to which Dipper nods his head.

Captain remains quiet for a moment. This could be a good opportunity for him to add to his collection. But at the same time, after he's been tracking the creature's movements, getting every piece of equipment he can craft, and making sure his boat was in tip-top shape, he doesn't want to leave the catch of the century to slip through his grasp.

"You maybe right, boy", Captain admits. He straps the harpoon gun on his shoulder and crosses his arms, thinking. "Will you three be alright if I take the egg back to the ship?"

"Yeah, I think we'll manage.", Dipper answers with Mabel and Soos agreeing.

"Alright, I'll take this back to the ship.", Captain Shaw takes the egg, "I'll be back soon." He walks back to the path leading to his ship. His figure becomes silhouetted by the fog until he finally leaves. The trio trek a little further until there's a growling noise in the distance and they look around, trying to find the source.

"Dude, did you guys hear that?", Soos asks them.

"Yep. I think we're getting close.", Dipper looks out in the distance, almost sure that they were getting closer to the beast they sought.

"I dunno, man.", Soos speaks, nervousness showing in his voice. "Maybe this, uh... Maybe this isn't worth it."

"Not worth it?", Dipper asks, incredulously. "Guys, imagine what would happen if we got that picture." Dipper imagines the recognition he'd get for capturing photos of the Gobblewonker, same with his sister as she imagines having the hamster really wants.

"I'm in!", Mabel smiles as she follows her twin to where the sound emanated from.

"All right, dudes.", Soos relents. He tries to catch up to them. "I'm comin'!"

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To say Stan is annoyed would be an understatement. He tried to make fishing buddies but that caused him to get yelled at by his buddy's parents and get chased by the lake police, getting an ankle bracelet. None of this would have happened if the kids just stayed and spent time with him fishing, but no. they'd rather go on a monster hunt instead. He sits on his boat, struggling to tie a knot getting more. "Er, ugh, gah! Mollycoddling…", he growls, getting more frustrated with the knot.

He stops what he's doing to see a boat a few yards away with twins and their Grandpa sitting in it. He frowns at them because it reminds of something he wanted to do with the kids.

"Can you pwease tell me mo'e funny stories, Pop Pop?", the young boy asks his grandpa.

"Anything for my fishing buddies!", he laughs, patting his grandchildren on their heads, much to Stan's irritation.

"Pop Pop?", the cute little boy starts."I just weewized dat...I wuv you." He and his twin sister's eyes are filled with familial love for their grand patriarch.

Alright, he's had enough of this sickeningly sweet showing of affection."Aw, come on! Boo! Boo!", Stan jeers.

"Hey, now! What's the big idea?", the grandfather frowns.

"Maybe he has no one who wuvs him, Pop Pop.", the young boy suggests, sympathy clearly in his voice.

"Yeah, well, I... I…", Stan tries to retort but he doesn't have anything to give. He just sighs before saying "Nevermind." The conman sits back in his boat and stares ruefully at his reflection.

So much for having a day of family bonding.

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The trio head deeper into the forest, slowly but surely making their way to the Gobblewonker. While this is happening, Mabel takes this opportunity to start rapping, while Soos starts beatboxing.

"My name is Mabel!", Mabel raps haphazardly, enjoying herself. "It rhymes with table! It also rhymes with glable! It also rhymes with schmable!"

"Dude, we should be writing this down!", Soos chuckles.

"Guys!", Dipper whispers, getting their attention while holding up his camera. "You hear something?"

The growling noise from earlier can be heard, except it's closer than it was before, making a flock of birds fly overhead, away from the sound. The twins punch each other excitedly and walk towards the sound, with Soos not far behind them. He grabs a stick and follows them into the fog. Walking through the fog first, Soos stops the group when he spots a lake monster silhouette. The group ducks behind a log.

"Everyone!" Dipper whisper shouts. "Get your cameras ready!"

Soos yells and jumps over the log, holding his camera in front of him as he runs toward the silhouette, snapping photos at random. The twins follow him, but as they get closer, they discover the silhouette was the remains of a wrecked boat with beavers living on it. Dipper and Mabel are at a loss for words with what they're seeing; they're certain they heard the lake monster's growling.

"But what was that noise, then? I heard a monster noise!", Dipper asks, only to a beaver chewing on, and sometimes activating, a rusty old chainsaw. So that's what they heard. Dipper still looks onward to see if the beast is still out there. While the twins look at the lake in uncertainty, Soos takes this opportunity to take photos of the beavers.

"Does this mean the Gobblewonker isn't real?", Mabel asks her brother

"No, no, no, Mabel", Dipper answers "It's just a red herring." He sits on a rock and throws a stone into the lake and sighs. There's no way the Gobblewonker couldn't exist.

"What do you mean?", Mabel asks, raising an eyebrow at her twin brother.

"Think about it.", Dipper tells her, determined. "The Gobblewonker exists. It has to."

"But what if Captain Shaw and that old man were wrong?"

"Hmm. They can't be wrong because there's one factor to take into consideration: The egg."

"Oh, that's right. But if the Gobblewonker exists, then where could it be?"

"Hmm." , Dipper thinks. "Maybe it's looking for..." Before the young Pine can give an idea, the rock he's sitting on shakes. The twins look at the ground as it shakes, with Soos stopping. The rock sinks under the water and Dipper swims to shore in haste. The group all look to see the Gobblewonker's silhouette is seen swimming away

"This is it!", Dipper gasps as he takes pictures of the beast. "Come on! This is our chance!" He turns to them, seeing Soos and Mabel back up. "What's wrong with you guys?" What he doesn't know is the Gobblewonker swimming back towards the island and begins to rise as the others try to warn him.

"It's not that hard, all right?", Dipper keeps trying to tell them, completely unaware of the lake monster getting closer towards him. "All you gotta do is point, and shoot. Like this." He aims his camera at Gobblewonker and realizes it's right in front of him. The beast oars, causing Dipper to gasp and drop his camera and the three to run away with Soos yelling "Run!"

The Gobblewonker pushes a tree over which falls and almost hits Dipper and Mabel, but Dipper lunges and Mabel and they roll out of the way. They continue to run and dodge falling trees and eventually catch up with Soos.

"Dipper, now would be a good time to use the watch!", Mabel insists as she runs as fast as her legs can take her.

"B-but what about Soos?! Or Captain Shaw?!", Dipper asks, dodging the trees. Should he really do this? What would happen if Soos found his secret?

"Does that really matter now!", Mabel asks, incredulously. The Gobblewonker snaps at Mabel who hops onto Soos's back.

"Get back to the boat! HURRY!", Soos yells.

Seeing the lake monster try to attack his sister, he holds his left wrist, almost activating the watch. But he trips over a root, dropping the camera. He tries to get it back but Soos grabs him, running as fast as he could away from the lake monster.

"Soos! The picture!", Dipper yells.

"Dude, if it makes you feel any better, I got tons of pictures of those beavers, dude!", Soos tries reassures hm

"WHY WOULD THAT MAKE ME FEEL BETTER?!"

o-o-o-o-o-o-o

Captain Shaw whistles as he puts the egg into a crate, wiping off some sweat off his brow. He's heard some of the growling coming from deep with the island until his eyes widen at seeing the twins and Soos running from the Gobblewonker. "Hurry up! Get on the ship", the captain speaks before heading to the ladder to climb down. Just as he does, he sees the handyman and the twins running to ship, climbing up the ladder. When he turns to look back to the island, he sees the Gobblewonker getting close to the ship. Realizing what's going on he heads back to the wheel and starts the ignition.

"Hang on!", the Captain calls out, starting the engine and the boat starts speeding away from the lake monster. Despite the boat going at its fastest, the Gobblewonker is slowly starting to get closer to it. Dipper starts to look at the watch before looking at his sister, who is looking uneasy herself. He then realizes that he has a perfect shot of the lake monster.

"All right! This is it!", he tries to take a picture but notices that the camera is broken. "Cracked lens?! Soos! Get a photo!" He turns to see Soos throwing cameras at the Gobblewonker that was in pursuit.

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!", Dipper holds his head in disbelief.

"Oh! I still got one left! Don't worry, dude!" Soos throws a camera to Dipper but misses hitting the wall and breaking the camera. As he sees the camera's pieces fall into the lake, he also sees the Gobblewonker gaining on them.

"Captain Shaw!", Dipper calls out to him. "The Gobblewonker is gaining on us."

"I know.", Shaw answers, his voice being hard as stone, as he slows down the boat and heads the hull, where the twins are. He grabs his harpoon gun, ready to shoot the beast.

"Captain Shaw, what're you doing?", Soos asks.

"Getting the catch of the century.", the captain answers, waiting for the beast to get a little bit closer to pull the trigger.

"A-are you sure that'll stop that thing?" Dipper asks, getting more antsy as the monster gets a little closer.

"We're about to find out.", Shaw answers, his voice being certain. He's waited this long to catch this beast and now he's going to fulfill it. The captain fires the harpoon; it hits between the beast's clavicle and interclavicle. The lake monster screeches in pain as the spear remains stuck in its "flesh".

The captain laughs. "Finally, I caught ya, beast."

"So, uh, what happens now?". Mabel questions , trying to figure out what Shaw was going to do next.

The captain gets another harpoon, reloading it and firing another one near the same place. The Gobblewonker gets aggravated and starts thrashing around. The boat gets shaken causing everyone to hang on. The hardened Captain Shaw grabs the harpoon gun and starts reeling but he is struggling, he looks at Soos.

"Soos, I need you to go press the button to reel the beast in!", Shaw commands the handyman.

"Um….o-okay", Soos hesitates. He heads to the wheel and sees too many buttons to press. Until he sees a sticky note saying "Reeling". He presses the button and the crane on top of the control deck starts reeling in the lake monster. Captain Shaw laughs at his success of catching this monstrosity. Mabel looks relieved for a moment before she looks at her brother, who's looking at the Gobblewonker moving less than it did before.

"Dipper, what's wrong?", Mabel asks, confused as to why her brother is looking at the beast in slight fear.

"Mabel, something's not right. Did you notice how it's slowed down its movements?", Dipper asks, trying to replay her memory of their time watching the nature channel.

"Yeah. And?", she answers.

"And do you remember when we watched the nature channel?", Dipper follows up.

"Well, yeah.", she responds but gets more confused, "But what does that have to do with now?"

"When an animal gets hunted.", Dipper starts explaining,"It'll do one of two things: it will either surrender its life if it can't fight back or it'll fight back even harder than before. Mabel...what do you it's doing now?" His eyes never leave the beast that is getting closer to the ship. When he looks at her, he can see the gears shifting in her as she has the same expression as he does. Any animal that's being hunted will be fighting back if it feels threatened or if it gets cornered, whether it be stuck in a spider's web, or in the teeth of a lion, or in the claws of a bird, it will fight back. That's when she, like her brother, realized that the Gobblewonker isn't forfeiting its life.

It's trying to bait them.

"Captain Shaw!", the twins call out.

"What is it?", the captain answers, turning towards the frightened children, not realizing his mistake and in a span of minutes, the Gobblewonker thrashes about as if it found its second wind. This leads to Captain Shaw getting hit to the port side of the boat and the lake monster breaking the crane, freeing itself as it roars in ravousness vengeance. Soos sees this and speeds up the boat as the Gobblewonker rips out the harpoon with its teeth, growling as it chases after the boat.

"Hang on, dudes!", he calls out as he speeds up the boat.

The Gobblewonker gets close enough to snap at the ship. Mabel tries to find a way to fend off the beast while Dipper activates the watch, looking for the right alien to stop the lake monster. She finds a flare gun and shots at it. The flare hits the beast's eye and it roars in aggravation. Dipper gets more terrified as he looks through the watch to find the Petrosapian but something catches his eye. He sees the gray-green in the crate.

He starts to pull the egg out and starts to carry it to the angry, much to his sister's fear.

"Dipper, what are you doing?!", Mabel asks, scared for her brother's safety.

"The Gobblewonker is probably acting like this is because it probably wants its egg", Dipper answers as he struggles to carry the egg to the Gobblewonker. "So I gotta give it back to it."

He holds up the egg to the Gobblewonker. It stops roaring to look at it, but as it gets closer it roars and it slams its head on the ship again, knocking out him and egg overboard. Dipper screams as he falls into the water.

"Dipper!", Mabel screams out.

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As he sinks, he looks around to see he's sinking underwater to see ripples. He can tell that the Gobblewonker is catching up to the boat and soon enough, his sister and Soos are going to be…

Dipper shakes his head and gives one reluctant look at the egg before he swims back up to the surface. He gasps for air and sees the Gobblewonker and boat speeding off and he activates the watch, he finds a new alien. The hologram shows it looking like a marathon runner, slender, posed to sprint off, with the feet of skates? "Well, here goes nothing!", Dipper declares before slamming the faceplate down on the watch.

It's here that Dipper starts to transform: He feels his body turning lean, his hands turning into claws, his legs becoming toned, ready for high-speed running, his head morphing into sharp and slant shape. The altered Pine looks like a semi-armored Velociraptor. He has black orbs on his feet, a black conoid helmet with a visor that is part of his Kineceleran biology, a blue face, green eyes, black lips, and stripes above and on the right side of his eyes, five blue stripes on his tail, and wears black pants and a turtleneck-like shirt with a white stripe on the center. The hourglass symbol is on his chest.

"Okay, from what I gathered from the journal", Dipper analyzes, recalling what he learned from the journal on the Kineceleran. "This alien's species is able to travel 500 miles in under 2 seconds. Let's put it to the test!" Dipper activates his visor and speeds up but because his feet are underwater for a moment, he can't reach the speed he would like but he starts to build up momentum, allowing him to be able to run on water. "Whoaugh!", Dipper almost loses balance before regaining it and he sees the ship and the Gobblewonker trying to close to the ship and onto his sister. He pushes himself to go faster and just before the Gobblewonker chomps his sister, the transformed Pine jumps onto the speeding ship and punches it in the face. The lake monster screeches in pain and tries to snap at the speedy alien, only for it to be struck at different angles on its face by him. The Gobblewonker heads underwater, seemingly leaving the boat alone.

Soos and Mabel look in awe at the new alien. Mabel for her part is amazed by the new alien Dipper found in his watch, Soos is astonished by this speedy, blue alien.

"Whoa. Nice work, Dipper!",, Mabel congratulates, before she covers her mouth. Dipper turns to his sister with his visor off, with a shocked expression.

"Mabel!", the transformed Pine hisses. Soos, looks at the speedy alien's face for a moment and hesitates to ask.

"Dipper, is that you, dude?", Soos asks, wanting to know if this creature is really Dipper.

Dipper is quiet and hesitant. He sighs before answering, "Yes, Soos. It's-Look out!" Soos turns around to see the boat crash through the beavers' dam, making the some of beavers crash onto it and landing on the trio and the ship, two bite Dipper on the arms, one bite's Mabel's arm, and another bites Soos on the buttcheek, making the handy run in circles, screaming in pain. the rest bite on any part of the ship they can find.

The shapeshifting Pine notices this and takes action. He shakes off the beavers on his arms in high speed before rushing through, taking the beavers off Mabel, Soos, the still unconscious Captain Shaw, and the rest of the ship. He holds all of them in his hand before heading to the back of the ship.

"Dipper, what are you-", Mabel stops herself when he sees her brother use his super speed to chuck the beavers off the boat and into the lake. He throws all 30 of them off the ship in under a minute. Once he's done, the hourglass emblem on his chest starts beeping, the red signaling he's turning back to normal. In a flash of green light, Dipper is back to being human. Soos looks to be in bewilderment at what just happened.

"Whoa, dude, how'd you do that? Like transform into a speed demon or something?", Soos questions, still can't figure out what's going on

"Long story short.", Mabel summarizes."Dipper went into the forest and found a watch that allows him to morph into aliens."

"Mabel!", Dipper admonishes before giving a huff. "Look Soos, I know this is a lot to ask, but can you please keep this a secret? I don't know how Stan would react to this."

Soos seems unsure for a moment but he sees the way the Pine Twins are looking at him, the unspoken pleading expression they're giving him...he couldn't find in himself to say no.

"Well, ok-", Soos is interrupted by a roar. The group look to see the Gobblewonker has risen up, swaying the boat dangerously with the wave that it just made.

"The Gobblewonker!", Mabel screams.

Dipper turns to Soos. "Soos, the wheel!"

Soos heads back to the wheel of the ship. Mabel gets the flare gun and keeps shooting at the beast with little to no effect, only provoking it and starting to catch up, as the beast destroys a multitude of ships to get the group's. A beeping alarms Dipper and he looks to see the enigmatic watch being green again. He presses it and the hourglass symbol springs up. Okay, what can help right now?, he thinks. Unfortunately, Dipper doesn't know all the aliens in the watch and he didn't have time to read through the entire journal to figure out what aliens can be found in it. He switches until he finds a particular one. Let's see what this can do!

He slams down the faceplate and his anatomy gets restructured: In a blinding light, his skin starts turning tough and shell-like, his natural pigmentation turning crimson, his fingers turning into claws, he also has a mollusk shell on top of his head, and there are multiple portholes appearing on his shoulders, arms, and legs.

Dipper is now a red, mollusk-like alien with green eyes, and a grey mouth that does not move when he speaks. Behind his legs and on the top of his arms are small spikes that are grey, there are black spots on his shoulders and legs, and on his hands, there are portholes, which he uses to shoot water. He also has four fingers with claws on them and on each of his feet, there is a grey spike. His lower torso is grey, with two spikes on the side of it.

"Mabel, get back!", Dipper commands his twin sister. She does so and as the Gobblewonker gets close, the genetically altered Pine holds his hands out and condensed, scalding water sprays out of his portholes in his palms. The sprayed water strikes the beast in its snout, making it roar in pain and make it slow down for a moment. Despite being scalded, the beast pushes through it, trying to gulp the ship and its passengers. Dipper grunts as he condenses the water even further, but in the back of his mind, he knows he can't keep doing this forever. The Gobblewonker is nothing but relentless.

"Dipper, what do we do?!", Mabel yells out to her transformed brother.

"Get the Journal! There's a map in one of the pages!", Water Hazard responds, spraying its water cannons at the beast keeping it at a distance away from the boat. Mabel looks for the journal. She looks around until she sees it near to the side of the boat and runs towards it . She grabs the journal and quickly scrolls through the pages until she finds it.

"Where do I go, little dudes?!", Soos asks

"Soos! Go into the waterfall!", Mabel informs the handyman. "There might be a cave behind there!"

"Are you serious?!", the handyman asks, disbelief harboring his voice.

"Just do it, Soos!", Water Hazard demands, grunting as he tries to add more power to the water blasts. The Gobblewonker, despite being pushed back, gets closer to the quartet as Mabel and Soos scream and the boat goes through the waterfall and into a cave behind it.

Their boat crashes, sending Water Hazard, Mabel, Soos, and the unconscious Captain Shaw into the dirt. The captain struggles to get up as the hourglass symbol on Dipper's chest beeps before he reverts back to being human. The three of them, with the exception of Shaw, stand up and turn around to see the Gobblewonker swim in after them and get stuck in the cave entrance. Fortunately for them, the beast gets stuck in the caves entrance. It tries so hard to move around and break free but it's struggles remain moot.

Mabel laughs, "Ha! It's stuck!"

Dipper gets up and looks at the beast, laughing. "Ha ha! Yeah! Wait.", he stops and realizes what he just said. "It's stuck?" He tries to find a camera but, for some reason, he can't.

Luckily, his sister helps him by removing his hat. "Boop."

He takes it from her and runs up to the side of the cave's terrain, with Mabel and Soos not far behind him, to get photos of the Gobblewonker's face up close even though it tries (and fail) to chomp at him, laughing in joy at finally getting the monster photos he and Mabel have been waiting for. As Captain Shaw gets up, he sees his modified harpoon gun and turns to see the Gobblewonker stuck, which jolts the old man up. He gets the gun and runs up to the terrain where the Pine Twins and Soos.

"Move outta my way!", Captain Shaw yells, shooting the Gobblewonker in its head, making it screech in pain. The captain laughs in victory as he finally downs the lake monster he's chased after, while the rest were in shock and unease by how the captain just killed the beast. Just then, the group hears the Gobblewonker's head descend with an electric noise, making them confused.

This makes Dipper question what's going with the beast. "What the...?" He walks up to the Gobblewonker and touches its side, which looks artificial. "Huh?"

"What's wrong?", Mabel asks.

Dipper steps on the gobblewonker and knocks it. It makes a hollow metallic sound, piquing his interest even more, making Dipper climb up the Gobblewonker. As he does, he feels the scales that are cold, not like a reptile cold but rather the cool that comes from certain metals.

"Careful, dude!", Soos insists.

"I've got this! Hold on!", Dipper tells the group as he climbs over the Gobblewonker, then pops up from the other side. "Hey, guys! Come check this out!" The gang discovers a handle and turns it, causing steam to come out. They open the trapdoor causing more steam to come out and they discover Old Man McGucket from earlier inside controlling a machine.

"Work the bellows and the...Eh?", he stops what he's doing to see Dipper, Mabel, and Soos confused while Captain Shaw is being on the edge of losing it. "Aww, banjo polish!"

"Wha-You?", Dipper stutters. "You made this? W-w-why?

"Well, I...I, uh…", the hillbilly tries to make up a reason, but after looking at them he just ends up being honest. "I just wanted attention."

"Explain.", Captain Shaw demands.

"Well, first I just hootenannied up a biomechanical brainwave generator, and then I learned to operate a stick-shift with ma beard!" He demonstrates by using his beard to pick up the tool.

"Okay, yeah. But why did you do it?", Mabel asks.

"Well, when you get to be an old fella like me, nobody pays any attention to you anymore. My own son hasn't visited me in months!", the Old Man McGucket explains. "So I figured maybe I'd catch his fancy with a fifteen ton aquatic robut! In retrospect, it seems a bit contrived. You just don't know the length us old-timers go through for a little quality time with our family."

"Ye mean to tell me that the Gobblewonker is nothing but bells and whistles?", Captain Shaw shouts. He's been dedicated to getting the catch of the century and now the beast he has been hunting for is nothing but a fake?

"Yep.", the crazy old man replies, which didn't stop the veins from popping on Captain Shaw's forehead and walks off the mechanical beast to his boat to cool down some steam. As he leaves, the Pine Twins look at the fishing hats Grunkle Stan gave them and sigh, both looking forlornly

"Dude. I guess the real lake monster is you two. Heh, heh! Sorry, that just like-boom-just popped into my head there."

"So, did you ever talk to your son about how you felt?", Mabel asks

"No, sir, I got to work straight on the robut! I made lots of robuts in my day!", the old hillbilly explains as a projector shows, presenting each mechanical creation and different people. "Like when my wife left me and I created a homicidal pterodactyl-tron, or when my pal Ernie didn't come to my retirement party and I constructed an eighty ton SHAME BOT THAT EXPLODED THE ENTIRE DOWNTOWN AREA! Well, time to get back to work on my death ray!" The crazy old man ducks into the Gobblewonker and starts constructing a new machine inside.

He raises his hand out. "Any of you kids got a screwdriver?""

Dipper takes out the camera. "Well, so much for the photo contest." He looks at it regretful for what he did to Grunkle Stan.

"You still have one roll of film left.", Mabel says, with a sad look of her own.

"Whaddya wanna do with it?", he asks. The twins look at each other and deep down they know what they want to do with the camera.

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The sun sets as Stan guides his boat to shore. Honestly, he's upset that the kids didn't go fishing with him, but whatever. It's their loss if they wanted to go on some monster hunt with Soos and that annoying Captain Shaw or whatever is they're doing.

"Hey! Over here!" Stan's attention is diverted from the shore and to see Captain Shaw's ship in a bit of damage, driving by his boat. As both boats stop, the conman sees Soos, Mabel, and Dipper, the latter of the three who takes a photo of Stan.

What the- Kids? I thought you two were off playing "Spin the Bottle" with Soos, or polishing Captain Shaw's harpoons or something." The conman doesn't know this, but Captain Shaw grumbles quietly at that little jab made towards him he's still upset about what has happened earlier.

"Well, we spent all day trying to find a "legendary" dinosaur.", Dipper explains.

"But we realized", Mabel follows up. "The only dinosaur we wanna hang out with is right here."

"Save your sympathy!", Stan scoffs "I've been having a great time withoutcha'! Makin' friends, talkin' to my reflection- I had a run-in with the lake police!" He shows them his ankle brace. "Guess I gotta wear this ankle bracelet now, so that'll be fun.

"So... I guess there isn't room in that boat for three more?", Dipper asks with a voice of regret.

The grunkle glares at Dipper and Mabel for a moment before they put on their hats, making his face soften "You knuckleheads ever seen me thread a hook with my eyes closed?", he asks them with a grin.

"Five bucks says you can't do it!", Dipper dares him.

The conman laughs. "You're on!"

"Five more bucks says you can't do it with your eyes closed, plus me singing at the top of my lungs!"

"I like those odds!" , Stan grins at the challenge. The twins and Soos climb down off Shaw's boat and onto the Stan-O-War. The captain looks at the group and it reminds of his family. With his grandchildren. With that, the captain waves goodbye before heading back to shore. Afterwards, the the Pines and Soos enjoy themselves as the sunsets perfectly in the sky.

"All right, everybody get together.", Dipper speaks, holding the camera up. "Say fishing!"

"Fishing!", everyone smiles as Dipper takes the picture.

Subsequently, the gang share more fun moments from Mabel covering Stan's eyes while he peeks and tries to thread a hook, to Stan reading jokes while everyone laughs at the cheesy one-liners, to Dipper holding his first fish, to Stan and Mabel stealing fish from another family (which, unfortunately, makes the group drive away from the lake police. All in all, it's the family bonding day that Stan wanted and to Dipper and Mabel, it may not have been the exciting monster hunt they experienced but it's a lot more fun and wholesome spending time with their grunkle than they initially thought.

But one question still remains.

As the group head back to the shore, Mabel thinks about something that she forgot about earlier. "So, what do you think happened to that egg?", Mabel asks

"Who knows? Maybe it's eaten or at the bottom of the lake.", Dipper suggests, not really sure what happened to the monster egg he found. Hee saw it go deep into the bottom of the lake. As they the Stan-O-War heads closer to shore, a camera is seen sinking deeper underwater. The clear waters turn darker as it continues to sink until it ends up into the jaws of a lake monster that is sitting in a nest. A nest that has a familiar looking egg in it.

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Sorry it took so long guys. I hope you guys enjoyed it and give me some review, critiques, or anything in between. This one was a little hard for me because I wanted this to feel authentic. I had to rewrite this chapter at least 3 times in a row during the prewriting stage until I found what I believed would be a good balance between the ""The Kraken" and "The Legend of The Gobblewonker" episodes but hopefully, I won't have this struggle for the next two chapters.

Also, I set up a tumblr page for Omni Falls, if you guys have questions for me, feel free to send them to the inbox. Also there's another thing I also do on there: it's called The Trix Files, basically any alien you see in the chapter will have a post on the species and some of the author's notes on them, check it out if you want to.

Well, that was a lot of plug-ins. But I digress.

Anyway,

See ya next time!