~~~~~~~~~Your POV~~~~~~~~~

"Aiden, no!" I picked up my beaver as he began to chew on one of my plush toys. He always does this, even if he has his own toys!

I let out a sigh, gently placing him on my bed as I turned on the tv. We didn't have work today, so I decided to just chill in my room until Mom came home from work.

That's when I heard my phone ring. I looked at the caller ID, picking it up after. "Hello?"

"Hi (y/n)!!"

"Hey Mabel."

"Where are you right now?"

I blinked as I stared at the wall, kinda confused at her question. "At home, why?"

"Why are you still there?!"

"Uh, cuz I have nothing better to do?"

"You're suppose to help Stan, Dipper, and I decorate for the fair!!!"

My eyes widened, quickly standing up. "Crap, I completely forgot!!! Sorry, M, I'll be there as soon as I can!!!"

I quickly hung up, getting dressed before running out. I decided to leave Aiden at home for safe keeping, though I can only pray he wouldn't eat my plushies.

After a while, I managed to run to the Mystery Shack, out of breath. I walked over to the back, seeing Mabel beside Stan who had a bright smile on his face. "There she is, Mabel, the cheapest fare money can rent! I spared every expense."

"Not that hard to tell." I said as I walked over.

Mabel smiled at the sight of me, giving me a big hug. "You made it!!!"

"You're late." Stan said as Mabel pulled away.

I could only chuckle in embarrassment. "I know, sorry about that."

Stan was probably gonna give me another one of his super weird lectures when one of the sky trims fell, Dipper inside it with a terrified expression. "I think the sky trim is broken. ... Also most of my bones."

Stan only laughed. "This guy!"

I couldn't help but snicker before walking over, helping him out of the sky trim. "You okay, P.T?"

"Yeah, physically anyways."

"Alright alright, I got a job for you three." Stan took out a few papers, handing them to Mabel as Dipper and I read them over her shoulders. "I printed up a bunch of fake safety inspection certificates, got slap one on anything that looks like a lawsuit."

Mabel looked up at him. "Grunkle Stan, is that legal?"

"Where there are no cops around, anything's legal!!!" Three red flags there, Stan.

He then walked over to Soos, vanishing from out sight. We knew this was far from okay, so we just broke then and threw them in the trash.

I guess chilling in bed will have to wait.

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~~~~~~~~~Dipper's POV~~~~~~~~~

I had managed to gather the courage to ask Wendy to hang out with me at the fair, and to my surprise, she agreed! It was already noon, and we had already been to a few booths together.

At the moment, we were at the corn dog stand, both of us got one. Mine was plain while hers had some sauce.

I looked at my corn dog. "How do they get them into this shape? It's unnatural!"

"But Dipper, they're so..." She raised her corn dog to reach the cart's sigh, making it seem like the title was a question. "Delicious?"

We both laughed. Unfortunately, some of the sauce fell on her shirt's sleeve. "Aw boo! I'll be right back."

"I'll be right here!!" I laughed awkwardly as she walked away, soon whispering. "I love you..!"

"Look at you two!" I turned to see Mabel and (y/n) walking over, both holding cotton candy; Mabel had a bright smile. "Getting all romantic at the fair!"

I looked away, trying to act casual. "Psh, c'mon, it's no big deal."

(y/n) rolled her eyes. "Of course it it, doofus, you've been wanting to ask her for the entire week!"

"Okay, you're right, it is!! Isn't this amazing?! I just dove in!! I just said 'Hey, you wanna hang out at the fare?!' And you know what she said?! 'Yeah, I guess so!!' It totally worked!!! All your advice about just going for it, it's finally paying off!!"

"When are you gonna learn, Dipper? We're always right." Mabel said with a proud smile, and (y/n) nodded in agreement.

However, her gaze soon shifted away as she sniffed the air. "Hey, do you guys smell a galloon of body spray?"

As if on cue, we all turned to see Robbie walking over with the same bored expression he always has on. "Hey, any of you dorks seen Wendy around?"

I glared at him. "Who wants to know?"

He grabbed a bit of Mabel's cotton candy, which she was not happy about, before stretching. "Yeah, just got some new super tight jeans, thought she might want to check'm out."

"Unless she wants a reason to gauge her eyeballs out with a melon baller, I don't see any reason for her to want to see you in this." (y/n) said, but I had a comeback myself.

"No, actually, I think I saw her in the Bottomless Pit, you should really go jump in there."

The three of us laughed, Robbie glaring at us. "Maybe I will, smart guy.." He then purposely bumped into me as he walked away.

"He is such a jerk!" Mabel complained, making (y/n) nod in agreement.

I looked at them. "Yeah but he's a jerk with tight pants and a guitar! I need to keep him away from Wendy at all cost."

Mabel placed a hand on my shoulder. "Don't worry, brother, whatever happens we'll be right here supporting you every step of the- OH MY GOSH A PIG!!!"

(y/n) and I both stared at Mabel as she ran into the crowd. We then exchanged a look before laughing at my sister's weird reactions.

Once we both stopped laughing, she looked at me. "So, guessing things are going well with Wendy?"

"Yeah! We've been talking and chatting-"

"Talking and chatting are the same thing, P.T."

"R-Right.." I let out an awkward chuckle, and she giggled in response.

I felt my cheeks heat up a little, she was.. honestly really adorable..

She then pulled some of her hair behind her ear. "Anyways, I'll leave you be. Say hi to Wendy for me though."

"Will do." I waved as she walked away, giving me a thumbs up.

It was long after that Wendy came back. We walked around, chatting and having a lot of fun! After a while, we passed by this booth, her eyes lighting up at the sight of some weird colorful plush toys.

"Whoa, check that out!" She said as she walked over. "I dunno what they are, but they seem cuddly as heck!"

I let out a laugh. "Stan once taught me that you won by aiming for the carny's head and take the prize when he's unconscious."

Wendy laughed, and I gave the carny a ticket. "One ball please!"

"You only get one chance." He said as he gave me the baseball.

Wendy smiled at me with a smile, making me take a deep breath. "And a one, and a two, and a-" To my stupid luck, the ball bounced off the shelf, hitting Wendy.

"OW, MY EYE!!!"

"Oh my gosh oh my gosh, Wendy, are you ok?!?"

She looked over, covering her eye. "Does it look swollen..?"

I grew cold, my mind racing with every possible bad ending I could get. "Everything's gonna be fine, don't worry!!! I'll- I'll go get some ice!!!"

I ran off as fast as I could and got a bag of ice, but as I ran back to her, some guy bumped into me, making me drop the bag as the ice inside spilled everywhere. I managed to get it all in the bag, but when I saw Wendy, Robbie was the one with her..

"Just ease your eye into the freezy cone.." He said as he pressed the freezy cone against her eye.

She smiled at the gesture. "Thanks, Robbie, this is sweet.. Both the gesture and the flavored syrup..!"

He chuckled. "Yeah, I was just here in the right place at the right time."

He then nervously shuffled his feet and he fiddled with a strand from his hoodie, which made me even more anxious. "Um... so, there's something I've been meaning to ask you for a while now... Uh... Would you... like to go out with me...?"

I tightly gripped the bag of ice as I awaited her answer, seeing her think. She gave a small shrug and smiled. "Yeah, I guess so."

"Sweet!"

I could only stare in pure shock at what had just happened. This- this didnt just happen!"

"Look, Dipper!!! I won my pet pig!!! Hi name is Waddles!!! I call him that because he Waddles!!!  Waaaaadllllle!!!"

"Everything is different now..." I couldn't hear Mabel clearly, not with the thousands of thoughts that passed by my head.

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It had been hours since then. The sun was setting, and I was lying down on some game machine. A few people asked me to move, but I wasn't in the mood to do anything.

"Paging Dr. Waddles, we got a boy here with a broken heart." Mabel said as she held her new pig, (y/n) sitting beside her, laughing at her own joke before growing serious. "C'mon, man, these are the jokes."

I let out a heavy sigh. "Girls, do you ever wish you could go back and undo just one mistake?"

"Nope, I do everything right all the time!!!" Mabel quickly answered, not making me feel any better.

(y/n) thought for a while, then looked at me. "Well, I will admit sometimes I'm ashamed of things I've done, and I would've liked it going another way. But if that were the case, my present would be different."

"But I want my present to be different!" I sat up, facing them. "I mean, Wendy only went out with Robbie because he was there with the ice and she only needed ice because of the baseball and I would've had the ice if it wasn't for-" I let out a gasp, seeing the guy that made me drop the ice. "That guy!!!"

I ran over to him, (y/n) and Mabel following behind me. "Hey you!!! Tool belt!!! You ruined my life!!!"

"Huh?!?"

"Don't 'huh' me, I've seen you before!!! What's your deal, are you following us around?!?" I didn't try to hide the anger in my voice, I wanted him to know what he had done!

Mabel crossed her arms. "And why are you bald, what's that all about?!?"

"Oh, my position has been compromised!!! Assuming stealth mode!!!" He began to tinker with his watch, his bodysuit starting to turn into all sorts of patterns, leaving us in shock. "C'mon, dang it!!!"

(y/n) was the first to speak. "Who'd you do that?!?"

"That's amazing!!!" Mabel gasped. "Are you from the future or something?!?"

"Uh, no!!! Who told you that?!? Memory wipe!!!" He threw a white wipe at Mabel's face, who soon took it off with a confused look.

" ... That's a baby wipe."

The man let out a sigh, sitting on a nearby crate. "Alright, you've cornered me. I'm... a time traveler..."

I thought for a moment, getting an idea. "So wait a minute, if you're from the future do you have like a time machine or something?"

"That's kind of how it works."

" ... can I borrow it?"

"What?!? No!!!"

"C'mon, can I use your time machine just once?!?" I pleaded, I needed a way to fix my mistake!

The man only shook his head at me. "Out of the question!!! You know, this is sensitive extremely complicated time equipment!!!"

I heard (y/n) let out a snicker. "It looks like a tape measure."

"You shut your time mouth!!!" The man screamed, leaving us all quiet for a bit.

"This making any sense to you two?" I asked Mabel and (y/n), who shook their heads.

"I think he's just crazy."

"Oh, don't believe me?!?"

He disappears for a few seconds, soon appearing again, wearing a completely different outfit from Medieval Times. "Guess where I was!"

"Whoa!!" We all stared in shock.

"That's right! Fifteen years ago there was a costume store right here!!! One second!" He disappeared again, appearing with a small flame on his shoulder, patting it. "Pat, pat pat! Pat down!"

Mabel tilted her head. "So who are you again?"

That's when he pulled out his ID. "I'm Blendin Blandin, time anomaly remover crew year 207012. My mission is to stop a series of time anomalies that are supposed to happen at this very location, but-but I don't see any anomalies!!! I don't know if it's some kind of paradox or if I'm just really tired!"

The three of us exchanged a glance before I spoke. "You know, you sound like you could use a break!"

Mabel nodded. "Definitely, definitely. Might we recommend one of the various attractions at the Mystery Fair?"

"We got all sorts of relaxing rides." (y/n) added.

"You know what? What the heck! I'm worth it!" He took the ticket Mabel offered. "But I've got my eye on you!"

He walked over to one of the rides. "One please!"

"Aw sorry dude, you're gonna have to take your belt off for the ride. One of your tools might fly off and accidentally fix something." Soos replied.

To my surprise, he didn't hesitate to give Soos the tool belt. "Guard it with your life!"

"I'll watch it like a hawk, dude."

Soon placed the tool belt on a nearby barrel, giving me a chance to take it and run back to the others. We then went inside the shack, sitting at the table.

"Here it is, girls, our ticket to any moment in history."

"How about we burn all the people who casted the witch trials?" (y/n) said, making me cringe a little.

Mabel smiled at a thought. "Let's go get two dodos and force them to make out!"

I shook my head. "No, we gotta be smart about this. All that paradox talk kind of freaked me out. All I'm gonna do is go back and fix my one mistake. If I don't miss that baseball throw, I won't hit Wendy in the eye, and Robbie won't comfort her, and they won't start going out."

"I wanna come too! I'm gonna relive the greatest moment of my life! Winning Waddles!" She kisses her pig's forehead before looking at (y/n). "Will you come too?"

"Eh, why the heck not. Sure."

"Yay!!"

I pulled the time measuring tape, setting it to the time we needed. "See you later."

"See you earlier~!!! Yack yack yack!!!" (y/n) let out a chuckle at Mabel's joke, and I let go of the tape, pressing the button.

It felt strange, I'll admit that, but we soon found ourselves six hours before!

Mabel ran off to get Waddles again, (y/n) joining her this time, and I ran over to Wendy. Unfortunately, the same thing from before happened again!

Freaky...

Mabel, (y/n), and I ended up going back in time various times, and the same mistake happened over and over and over! Sometimes it went worse!

At the time, I was trying to decipher the reason why this kept happening, writing it all in the popcorn cart glass.

"Face it, Dipper, you're obviously fated to have a bad day at the fair. Just like I'm fated to be with Waddles!" Mabel said, not making me feel any better.

I tapped a pencil on my chin. "It's like there's one variable missing..."

Both (y/n) and Mabel lifted their heads to where my equal sign was, Mabel asked. "What's a variable?"

I smiled to myself. "That's it!!! I figured out a way to win the toss, not hit Wendy, and stop Wendy and Robbie from going out!!!"

"Awesome!!! I'm gonna go win my pig again!!!"

I stopped her before she could leave. "Whoawhoawhoawhoa, you can't leave, I need you for my plan, both of you!"

"But what about Waddles?" Mabel asked with a pout.

"It'll just take a few minutes!"

With that, I go to Wendy, and my plan sets in action. To my surprise, it actually worked! And Robbie acted like such a jerk about it that Wendy was even more glad to be with me than I expected!

Wendy and I went on another ride, but after the third time on it, she wanted some Funnel Cake, and ran off. I tried to follow, but something started ringing in my ears.

I then looked around, seeing Mabel running over as she screamed. "AHHHHHH!!!"

"Mabel, what-!"

"AHHHHHHHH!!!"

"Mabel-!"

"AHHHHHHH!!!"

"I'll just wait 'till you're done."

She lowered her arms. "I'm done."

"What happened?!"

"We messed up the timeline!!! Pacifica saw the flyer and won Waddles before I did!!! She took Waddles, Dipper!!!"

"Who did?!" We both turned to see (y/n) running over with a panicked expression.

Mabel quickly threw herself onto her, who awkwardly hugged back. "Pacifica!!!"

I let out a small sigh. "I'm sorry, Mabel.."

She pulled away from (y/n). "It's okay.. We just need to go back and fix it."

"What?! No! I worked too hard to finally win that stupid game and I'm not going back!" It took so many tries to finally get it right with Wendy!

We continued to argue before starting to fight over the time measuring tape. (y/n) tried to stop us by snatching it away, but it only caused Mabel to fall back as she pulled the tape, sending us to another time.

The three of us appeared in a strange dirt road, looking around.

"Uh no.."

"When are we?!?" I asked as I looked around, now worried.

Mabel looked at me with a smirk. "The real question is: when are we~?!?" We stayed a few seconds in silence. "Oh, wait, did you already-?"

"Yeah, I already-"

"Alright-"

"It's the same thing."

We suddenly grew tense as we started to feel the ground moving.

(y/n) stood up. "Guys, do you hear that...?"

We turned around, seeing a stampede of buffalos running our way. We let out a loud scream before starting to run as fast as we could. However, we couldn't stop as we saw a cliff in front of us, though to our surprise, we landed inside a wagon?

Mabel sat up, rubbing her head. "Where are we?!? The seventies?!?"

(y/n) helped me stand up, looking around. "Yeah, eighteen seventies.."

"You sent us back a hundred and thirty years, genius!!! It's pioneer times!!!" I yelled.

"By Trembley!" We heard a man from outside speak. "Fertilia, it seems you've given birth to three more children!"

"It appears I have. More little hands to render the tallow." Said the woman surrounded with children of all ages.

Mabel only laughed. "Tallow?!? What?!?"

One of the boys pointed at Mabel. "Her mouth is filled with silver, mother!"

"These are called bracers!" Mabel said with a smile.

One of the girls then pointed at (y/n). "And her hair is two colors!"

"It's called hair dye and it looks fantastic on me, shut your mouth." (y/n) replied, crossing her arms.

"Girls, we can't mess with the past!" I said, starting to get annoyed.

Mabel glared at me. "Oh, says the guy who messed with the past all day and caused me my pig?!?" She pulled out a calculator from my bag. "I'll mess with whatever I want!!! Check it out, a magic button machine!!!" She gave the boy the calculator, then walked over to the others as she stomped her feet.  "Shoes that blink!!!"

I snatched the tape back, only to be tackled by Mabel and accidentally sending us to another time. The three of us let out a scream as we saw a T-Rex right in front of us, roaring. Mabel quickly sent us to another time.

It wasn't any better. We screamed as some laser almost hit us, ducking before it could.

"This future seems neat!" Mabel smiled, clearly oblivious to the war that was happening right as we spoke!

I finally took back the time tape, and we went through many more times as Mabel tried to take it away from me. However, she soon began to push it from hand to hand when it began to burn, and we suddenly appeared in a place covered in darkness.

And I mean literal darkness, you couldn't see anything!

"Where are we?!?" Mabel asked, fear clear in her tone.

I wasn't doing any better. "It's nothing but inky blackness for miles. Girls, don't you see?!? We've transported to the end of time!!!"

"AH!!!"

"AHHH!!!"

"AH!!!"

"AHHH!!!"

"Both of your shut up already!!!" We stopped screaming when (y/n) scolded us before tapping around, soon pushing a door open and letting us all out.

Mabel smiled. "Look, we're back in the present!!!"

"But which present?"

I looked around, eventually seeing Wendy hugging the strange plush creature, making me cheer. Mabel, however, yelled in disapproval as Pacifica dragged her pig away.

She immediately reached for the time measure before staring to chase me around the portlier potty, which I climbed to the top so she wouldn't get me.

I let out a groan. "Look, Mabel, it's over, okay?! Give it up! I've worked too hard to loose this!"

"But what about Waddles?!? He was my soulmate!!!"

"You said that about a ball of yarn once!! Do you really want Wendy to date Robbie?!"

"I don't know..." I could see the tears form in her eyes as she took out some pictures of her and Waddles. She then walked over to the totem pole nearby, starting to hit her forehead against it repeatedly.

I sighed. "You're not guilt tripping me, Mabel. Not this time."

When she stayed quiet, I walked over. "C'mon, Mabel, I know you! You're gonna forget about this in a day." I looked down at the time tape, smiling to myself. "Here, hey, I'll prove it!"

I skipped a day, but Mabel was still banging her head against the pole. I bit my lip, I didn't feel bad about this, this was her plan anyways!

"Okay... maybe you'll forget in a week!"

She still continued, and I gulped down the guilt that began to fill my throat.

"A month, she'll be better in a month."

At this point, Mabel was covered in leaves and vines, mumbling to herself. "Waddles... Waddles..."

Soos soon walked over with a grip of tourist. "And if you look to your left you'll see Miserable Mabel, the girl who went bonkers after her dreams were shattered by some heartless jerk. Oh hey Dipper!"

I hated this feeling... I didn't want Wendy to be with Robbie, but...

Taking a deep breath, I went back in time to when I was about to get Wendy the plush toy, whatever sense of determination for winning gone.

Wendy still had that curious smile, and it only made my heart ache more. "I dunno if it's a duck or a panda, but I want one!"

I stayed quiet before letting out a sigh. "Wendy, I just wanted to say that... well, I just wanted to say that people make mistakes, and when they do you should forgive them. And also that tight pants are overrated."

"Dude, you lost me."

"I know..." I offered my ticket. "One ball please."

Gotta be honest, I didn't even care about throwing the ball at this point. So I just did. "And a one and a two and a..." Just like before, it hit Wendy's eye, and Robbie quickly ran to her aid and took her away.

Letting out a heavy sigh, I looked up. "It is done."

Before anything else could happen, Mabel tackled me in a tight hug. "DIPPER!!! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!"

I chuckled as she smiled brightly, her pig happily licking my cheek once before oinking, and she put me down. "He said 'Thank You' in pig!!! Aren't you, Waddles?!?"

He rolled onto his back, oinking cutely and making us both laugh. (y/n) quickly ran over to us, catching her breath. "Please tell me this is our first and last time traveling experience!!"

Laughing a bit, I nodded. "I'm pretty sure we'll be taking a long break from it."

She gave a thumbs up, and we all laughed once more, especially at the sight of Pacifica getting pecked by her new pet chicken.

However, the moment was cut short when the guy from before snatched the time tape out of my hands. "YOU TWO!!!"

We all gasped, Mabel keeping Waddles close to her as he spoke. "Do you have any idea how many rules you just broke?!?!? I-I'm asking, I-I wasn't there with you!!! It was probably a lot, right?!?"

That's when two men wearing odd armor appeared behind him, one of them speaking. "Blendin Blandin?"

"Ah, the time paradox avoidance enforcement quadrant!!!"

"That's right, and our phones have been ringing off the hook. They're settlers high-fiving in the eighteen hundreds. And calculators littered through eight centuries." The other guard spoke, the girls and I exchanging awkwardly glances.

"You are under arrest for violations of the time traveler's code of conduct."

The two men dragged Blendin away as he continued to yell. "I-it was those kids!!! And they're leader, Waddles!!!"

"That's a pig, Blendin."

The three of us stayed quiet for a few seconds, but a small smile soon grew on my face. "Well, we're still here."

"He must've forgotten to go back in time." (y/n) shrugged.

After a while, we chose to have a little quality time with each other, walking around the fair.

"So I guess we never found out who is causing those time anomalies Blendin was looking for!" Mabel said as she took a bite of her snack.

My eyes widened a bit at the realization. "Wait, Mabel, I think it was us!"

"Ugh, my brain hurts..."

"Too much time stuff?" (y/n) asked before throwing a handful of popcorn into her mouth.

Mabel rested her head on her shoulder with a groan, making (y/n) let out a laugh.

My expression soon fell at the sight of Robbie and Wendy together. "Oh geez, I gotta deal with this all summer..?"

"I'm on it." Mabel placed Waddles on the ground, who's eyes widened at the sight of the candy apple Robbie was holding, quickly running over.

Robbie backed away as Waddles attacked and grabbed the candy apple, falling into a barrel of hot water, making his pants shrink as he yelled for help, though everyone just laughed.

Including us.

Waddles walked back over, staring up at me, and I smiled. "That'll do, pig.."

He oinked happily, snuggling against my leg as I pet his head.

"That'll do.."

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