"Soos what are you doing here?" I ask, "it's eleven at night! Your shift ended hours ago! Where's Stan?"

"Which one dudes?" Soos asks, "either way, they are nowhere near here. They're out at sea."

"What do you mean which one?" 4 asks, "Stanford! He runs the mystery shack! What happened after the weirdpacolypse? We escaped the eyebats, but then, after few days, it just stopped."

"Dipper you were there," Soos explains, clearly confused, "we defeated Bill, Stan gave me the Mystery Shack, and you went home. Is this a time travel situation?"

"Hold that thought," I reply. I turn to 4. "Do we tell him?" I whisper.

"Can we hide it?" 4 replies, "let's just tell him. We need the coping machine. Just tell him."

I sigh, "Soos, here's the truth. Early in Summer, at the party Stan hosted, Dipper cloned himself, we are his third and fourth clones. We melt in water, and we've been wandering around Gravity Falls all Summer. The copying machine can clone human beings. We came here to take shelter from the rain. Along the way, my arm melted, and 4's leg  melted. Can we stay here and use the coping machine?"

Soos thinks for a moment, I get nervous, did I say to much? "Sure thing dudes. The coping machine is in the back." We go to the back room. I try to copy my leg so 4 can walk properly. As the image prints, I go to grab some glue to glue it onto his paper body.

I find some glue and enter the room. "I think we have problem," 4 explains, "the leg isn't moving."

"What do you mean?" I ask. "Doesn't that mean it'll just be easier to glue?"

"No," 4 explains, "it's not alive."

"What? How? Oh wait, I think I got it."

"Say it in at the same time?"

"Sure."

We both take a deep breath and say in unison, "we're paper. Not alive." Is that it? Are we stuck limbless forever?

Soos walks in with nachos. "Yo dudes!" He enters smiling, "you clones eat right? Nachos dudes?"

I grab a nacho. "So, why'd you dudes stay in Orgeon?" Soos asks.

"Well," 4 explains, "there's so many mysteries here. We decided to investigate rather than messing with Dipper's life. We aren't really, you know, human. I mean, we have emotions, and I guess souls if you believe that sort of thing, but we just aren't human."

"Nonsense dudes," Soos replies, "if you fell and eat nachos, you're still human, and your still my friends. So... you want I ride back to California?"

I realize if we can't make new limbs from our bodies, we can make some from Dipper's. "That'd be great," I reply, "when can we leave?"

"Well," Soos explains, "the Mystery Shack is closed tomorrow and Melody is visiting her family, so we can go right now."

We climb into Soos's car. As we drive to the edge of town, I think about all the mysteries we never solved. The author, why we could even be cloned, and so many more, but I'm wasn't worried, we'll be back, we just need to get some new limbs.

We near the city limits as we begin to cross it, I'm pushed into my seat. "Stop the car! I'm being crushed!" 4 yells. Soos screeches to a halt.

We get out of the car. I try to reach beyond the county line, but some force blocks my way. We're traped in Gravity Falls.