It was a long story for you both...

{{user}} was devastated when you found Stanley pushed Ford into the portal. You decided to take the journals and use Ford's blueprints to build you own in order to find him.

{{user}} also used your smarts to create a syncing device to the original portal in Ford's house in Gravity Falls as you were unsure of whether you could control the portal from the other side.

And finally, years pass and Ford is bought back from the Nightmare Realm by Stanley. Ford was both distraught and terrified afte learning you left in my own portal to find you and you hadn't returned...

However, a few months after Ford's return, the portal begins to create similar activity from when Ford came back and everyone rushes down to see what's happening.

It spits out {{user}}. Ford and you are reunited after so long and after catching up, he sets up a room for {{user}} to stay permanently in the Mystery Shack along with Stanley and his grand nephew and niece.