CHAPTER 3
DEVIL'S HIGH
Candy, Wendy and Darren/Talon wait until Mabel appears to join them and then they soon go on their journey to find Dipper. Darrien/Talon he reports his whereabouts to Ford and then they all proceed onward. All of them use their light compasses as they are walking the disorienting landscape. Mabel looks around and sees the trees most of them are hardly what you would call trees or even a forest more like a sculpture garden as there are several that are twisted in a spiral, other trees have a spiral pattern on them, and then there are some trees that are molded and shaped as random things like the lower case A, a set of numbers 666, the pound sign, a rat, and other kinds of rats members of congress. She then looks up at the sky which isn't even blue but blood red.
Mabel then walks up to Wendy a little quickly with a slight shiver wanting to walk with her.
Mabel says, "I really don't like this place."
Wendy looks at her and says, "Me either I have no clue what kind of sane person could ever dream anything like this for us."
"Must be a really really sick mind."
As their walking Mabel then looks behind at both Candy and Talon as their walking together having some sort of conversation.
Mabel then looks at Wendy and says, "How do you feel about him being here?"
Wendy says, "He's helping us that's enough for now."
"You didn't answer my question."
Wendy briefly looks back and sees Crimson, despite unable to see though the faceplate of the psychic disguise he's maintaining, he looks at some of his hand gestures and head movements which appear to be gentle and even how he then takes Candy's hand and squeezes it gently.
She then looks back at Mabel, "I'm honestly not sure, but I remember every time we've thwarted his plans we never exchanged bitterness, even during this crusade he hasn't said one unkind word to us."
Both Talon and Candy they traverse the area and Candy looks at some of the trees and has a shiver. Talon he then comes to her and then puts his arm around her shoulders to keep her warm.
Candy says, "Thanks."
"My pleasure."
"So, this is the dream world, this isn't how I pictured the world of dreams to be."
Talon says, "This is only a part of someone else's dream not ours."
Candy comes a little closer. "I'm scared."
Talon says softly, "Yeah, so am I, but just remember this whole place
isn't really real, it can be scary but…"
Talon does something with his hands, when he moves them open palmed across form one another, closes his hand making a fist and then another hand he makes a fist bops both the bottoms of his fist and then he opens his right hand and then elevates it up slowly and of his left hand which is still clinched like a fist suddenly a wild orchid flower comes up slowly and he gives it to Candy. She is amazed and fascinated by what just happened, even more amazed by touching the orchid.
Candy say, "How did you do it?"
"Imagination, anything you can imagine will appear, go ahead try."
Candy looks down at her empty left hand and imagines hard and then suddenly a rose appears on her left hand and she has a smile on her face as she then holds both and then puts them to her nose and he can get the actual fragrance of them.
Candy looks at Talon and says, "It's amazing."
"Yeah, I'm just getting the hang of this realm."
He puts his left hand up and then another flower appears and it's a blue flour suddenly springs up, he then gives it to Candy and she takes it from him and puts it with the other two in her right hand. He then has his hand on the face feeling the metallic face he put on and says, "Candy, I was thinking, here I could show you what I was like before…. this, I could right now if you want."
She then grabs his hand to stop him. Talon then stops. "I'm sorry… a little too fast."
"No, it's just, I don't really want that."
"why not."
"Like this disguise your wearing, it wouldn't be real I'd know."
Talon looks down for a moment and then suddenly drops the Super Sentai disguise which fades and Candy along with Mabel and Wendy behind them see Crimson Talon once more in his militaristic wear, mechanized arm, and the blue-black helmet and silver smooth faceplate. Candy has a small smile. "That's better."
They all continue the surreal landscape, Mabel takes the lead and Wendy with her, Mabel then has the feeling a lot stronger and then runs up ahead from the rest and when she comes up a hit she then points out someplace a distance away.
Mabel says, "We're here."
Candy then comes up with her and she looks out seeing what she's seeing and looks at Mabel.
Candy says, "Are you sure?"
"My feeling on my brother's whereabouts are never wrong."
They soon come a distance away from their destination as the compass light grow brighter and bigger. All of them looks up and they see what looks like their own high school "Gravity Falls High" but it's distorted in a way as there are all kinds of graffiti on the exterior walls even the windows which are covered with it just nothing but squiggles and even certain supremacist symbols like swastikas and other symbols of hate, even some windows are broken, and there are several scorch marks and on some parts of the walls there are certain stains made from very unpleasant substances.
Talon says, "Jeez looks like the last high school I use to go to.
Talon he looks and is moving his head left and right making the no gesture.
Talon then says, "High School, year this is the third place to go on my list."
Wendy slows down and gets Candy to talk with her and then both slow a little for privacy and Wendy asks Candy. "Is the always this intense?"
"Only on bad days, and today is that day."
Wendy then out of curiosity then says, "What's he like."
Candy says, "There are times when he would walkways find a few flowers and would give them to me and then would talk me into walking to where these flowers are."
Wendy then looks at Darrien/Talon from what Candy said about him despite him being on the opposing side he can't help but wonder what more is going on behind the cruel exterior he tends to put up, let alone what the heck he looks like.
Mabel then signals Talon to join with her and he complies and both
catches up with Darrien/Talon and is looking with him with the light compasses.
Mabel looks at him and says, "You know that once we find my brother and fix all this, this won't change things between us."
Talon says in a soft manner. "I know."
"I still don't trust you."
"You shouldn't, I know I don't."
Mabel, she keeps trying to feel the sign of her brother, but the feeling is slightly weak.
Mabel says, "C'mon Dipper where are you, give me a sign."
Mabel then looks at him and says, "I just want to know one thing you didn't brainwash Candy did you?"
"I'd never do that, brainwashing isn't my style."
Mabel is still puzzled and decides to ask one more question.
"Do you really care or is this an act?"
Talon then replies, "Would I be here doing this?"
"Maybe if you had another agenda in mind."
"That mainly happens in a badly written season."
Mabel gives a nod with slight agreement.
"Just please bring back both my brother and boyfriend safe."
Talon then nods. "Deal."
Both continue their surveillance and Mabel for some reason feels a lot more secure.
All four of them they soon come to the center campus of the high school, all three are on the center of the main floor which has the main title but also the mascot/sign of the school which is a lumberjack. All of them look at each other.
Mabel says, "I don't get it Dipper should be here, we should have found him by now."
Candy says, "Our light compasses are useless."
Wendy says, "Maybe we took a wrong turn?"
Mabel says, "My feeling is on the dot."
Candy then thinks for a moment as she is looking around at the school and how what use to be filled with life is now desolate and dead silent, from the banged-up lockers, broken trophy cases with broken trophies and awards, trash, all the corruption and destruction just says unfriendliness. Wendy sees her and says.
"Candy what are you doing?"
Candy looks at all of them. "We're exactly where were supposed to be."
"I don't get it?"
Mabel then says, "Candy what are you trying to say?"
Candy takes a breath and says, "Your feeling is correct but what if just like with this whole place and the light compass, someone has found a way to manipulate your mind."
Mabel says, "Someone is misleading me."
"Yes."
"But how, and how can whoever's doing this know where we are."
Wendy says, "Could be after saving Mabel, whoever's doing this is probably now picking up our trail already, may' be already here."
Talon says, "Almost like this person was expecting us."
Mabel says, "So, what are we going to do?"
Talon says, "Nothing."
All of them are surprised by what he said.
Candy says, "What do you mean by that?"
Talon has his head up to them, even though Candy can't see though his face plate she can tell by the gesture that he's nervous about something and even she notices something herself.
Talon says, "I can't move."
Candy soon realizes she can move her legs or even her arms, she struggles along with everyone else that feels like their nailed/glued right to the floor.
Wendy says in shock, "It's a trap!"
Then suddenly she gets wisked in one direction away from the group very fast, she is pulled quickly down a hallway.
Mabel says in shock and surprise, "Wendy!"
Then suddenly she gets pulled away and a couple of double doors open behind her and she goes right thought he entrance. Candy looks to Talon with fright.
Candy says, "What's happening!"
"I don't know!"
Both trying to come to each other by reaching out their hands to one another but then suddenly get pulled apart and Candy gets dragged in one hallway while Talon goes straight toward another. Suddenly the whole floor is clear, except for one black shoot that is slightly covered with some light blue suit pant which is hidden in a corner and then that foot then moves away.
Mabel is lying down someplace and suddenly she starts to come out of it.
Mabel says, "Uh wipeout."
She is suddenly sniffing the room.
"What is that stench, it smells like burned crap."
She then sits up and looks around and realizes she's not far off. And she sees she's in a cafeteria area and there are lots of unthrown and undisposed trays with food that is moldy, rotten and has gotten discolored and smelly there are some flies on them flying around. She sees it on just about every table and some of them have juice, milk carton or even cans of pop where some have literally spilled and make the smell even worse. There are other insects crawling around the cafeteria foods as well as some rats some that look as big as a cat that are crawling around and eating or trying to make some sort of home out of the garbage. Then suddenly she hears some double doors opening and she quickly hides.
Mabel, she hides behind a table as some orange cannibalistic zombie chiefs, each of them have folds of fat from their heads to their necks as well as arms and legs. Almost like walking dough but what adds to the glutinous looks are their orange skin color and the amount to yellow and orange that is constantly running or dried up on their skin like grease and oil out of the pan, uncooked, or uncleaned dried up from the stove.
They are searching with their white pupiless eyes and are sniffing the area for her and there is one big one with an apron and a hat with a skull symbol on it and despite how big and bloated he might be, he's also strong as he carries a portable microwave around as a weapon. Mabel is trying not to breath to much as she is hiding behind one of the upturned tables but she knows that cover won't hold for very long and also a rat or two was passing her leg which made her have to cover her mouth even more and turn up her sweat glands up to high as she hates rats more than any messy area or these new orange cannibal zombies.
She is constantly sweating wonder what to do as one of the rats are now sniffing her leg and the orange zombie chiefs are getting closer. Suddenly as Mabel is sweating she then tries to remember what Talon said about his form. "In this realm you can turn and be whatever you want."
Mabel then says to herself silently. "What do I want to be, what do I want to be?"
Some of the cannibalistic chiefs are searching and their drooling with spit and slime but also their eyes have an intensity which just shines with evil on their mind and Mabel in their microwave.
Mabel she then gives herself a light bop on the head and says, "What am I saying, I'm Mabel I know exactly what I want to be."
She then stands up the cannibalistic chiefs they look at her and are about to charge but then suddenly there is a big bright red orange light that bursts and the cannibalistic chiefs are momentarily blinded and then suddenly they see someone whom is in a bright yellow and magenta costume. This person is in what looks like some spandex suit that it completes magenta colored from legs, arms, and body except for the long boots that are crimson red, gold shoulder pads. Also, there are two gold bolts of lightning that Criss cross each other.
Mabel also has a magenta mask over her eyes and face except for the mouth and chin. He brown hair is exposed. She has something on her wrist which is some sort of remote as it is slightly bulky as it looks the size of a bulky retro tv remote. Some of the cannibalistic chief come toward her but then she suddenly puts up the watch device and presses a button which then in the middle of the watch then brings out a mini rod and the rod then discharges some bolts of electricity which hit a few of the cannibalistic zombies all three of the chiefs they are spasming from the electric current and then suddenly their arms and heads explode with orange blood, grease, oil and fat all over the place, thankfully Mabel was a distance away as none of it touched her . She then suddenly sees the Microwave Lead chief and then both they come up a light distance facing each other, both ready for a showdown.
Meanwhile, Candy in another area she looks and sees she is without her outfit and is in the casual wear. She has a green skirt and a grey and black sweater on. She looks at the hallways which are lighted and then suddenly thee are a group of girls that come, that look like any other click with the dresses that could be from any teen show that are hard to afford with the short skirts, bright colored tops with slight expose to their upper areas, they come up to her. Candy isn't sure what to do so she tries to walk by them, but they block her space and she moves another direction but once again block the space.
The lead girl whom has long blond hair and pale skin comes up and says, "Who says you can walk in my hallway."
Candy she would usually feel shy and timid with girls like this, but she doesn't and instead she retorts.
"If you have a deed to this hallway use it, if not then get out of the way."
But then she's is blocked and one of the other girls says, "Your fraking ugly b…. you have no right to live!"
Girl 2 says, "Just a waste of yearbook space that just shouldn't be in the school or any school."
Girl 3 says, 'Actually shouldn't exist on this planet at all."
Lead girl says, "And what's with the sweater and skirt, did your grandmother make that for you."
Girl 4 says, "Probably bought them form a thrift store since her grandmother is dead."
Candy hears more and more overly mean and cruel comments and the sound of them becomes overwhelming she is putting her hands to her ears and then kneeling feeling the weight of each verbal assault weighing down on her, breathing at her like whips constantly cracking and cutting skin.
In another area, Talon he then opens his eyes and he then realize he's in a body of water and he has no air he then immediately swims upward toward a surface that is just meters away. He is swimming hard for it as he feels he is running out of air by the minute. He continues to swim and then the light from the surface grows brighter. He suddenly submerges and then he looks around and he sees he is at some sort of school pool.
He comes to the pool's floor and he then takes off his helmet and facemask as he sees the reason he's not getting oxygen is his mask is somehow on the fritz. Good thing is its waterproof which he designed them to be and there is a secret compartment for his helmet which he just presses and suddenly a compartment is open, and he takes out what looks like some silver bar which charges the systems for the helmet.
Takes it out with his fingers and then throw the bar into the water where it sinks. He then is about to reach into one of his secret mini pouches when suddenly his eyes soon come on to one person that is just standing there looking at him. At least he assumes he's looking at him as this person's eyes are covered with his long hair. There was also something else that was strange what he was wearing paints and a white T-shirt that look like they haven't been in the laundry in days, but his skin is much too pale white.
Talon pan his head around and sees even more figures the surround the pool all in what look like clothing like with most gangs with he ripped jeans, vest and jackets with a wild shirt on. All of them are also having their heads nodded down and are pale skinned. He then has his eye in front and there was a muscular guy in the same gang wear and he then suddenly looks up and his face is pale white but also looks wrinkled a little from the cheeks, mouth, and eyes.
His eyes were creepy as there was for some reason deep dark black eyeliner, no color in the pupils nor any movement as the eyes were just staring blankly at him. Soon the others followed, and they look up with the vacant soulless eyes. He then looks back in front of him and sees the same guy but this time he has a smile on his face, it wasn't a happy smile but the smile devoid of happiness more of a bland mask to hide what he's about to do next. Then all the figures around him then all jump in and swim toward him. Talon is looking around franticly there is just nowhere to really outmaneuver or outswim them, they keep getting closer and closer until the figure in front of his sight submerges and uppercuts Talon and he goes into the water. Then Talon feels lots of hands both out of the water and underneath pushing and pulling him underneath the water and he continues to go deeper and deeper into the water running out of air. He gives out a scream which only he can hear as the mass of water above and bellow blocks the sound from getting though to the surface world.
At another area of the school, Wendy she gets up but can't see a thing as she is in total darkness. She is feeling where she is but sees she's at some sort of hallway as she can feel a locker or two. But she can't see a thing so has no real geography of the place. There are some little pickets of light in place but only some and then she goes forward toward them because even those don't help as the light pockets just seem to be pointing and leading toward wherever. She keeps going but then she sees something int eh dark and there appears to be something in the dark. She looks carefully and sees a figure which is humanoid shaped, but she can't make out any features as there are literally more and it seems to be a figure that is taller than her that seems to reach a height that could almost touch the ceiling. This figure starts to move, and Wendy realizes it's coming toward her and then starts to run.
Meanwhile, Mabel and Microwave zombie both are facing each other and then suddenly both point their weapons at one another and push a button. The microwave zombie, presses a button on top and the machine is on and then stop, it instantly opens and suddenly katanas shoot out and then Mabel she presses a black blue button on her remote and it suddenly produces a white beam that suddenly spread making what looks like a vertical rectangle the size of a door and each of he katanas flow toward her break like glass.
The zombie stops the attack and soon goes for some other attack. Mabel's white bam fades and she goes of another button. But unfortunately, the zombie beats her to the punch as he punches in another button and the door opens once more and there are a couple of floating microwaved heads that fly out and flood around her. Mable, she sees one of he brown black fried heads come to her and she fires an Electra beam, it connects with the head and the flying head yells out in pain and suddenly explodes like any overcooked leftovers.
But there is one that is away from her sight and suddenly opens its eyes which are glowing red and then suddenly shoot out laser bolts that come to Mabel. Mable presses the white button engaging the body lightening shield which deflects the bolts but throw her off balance from eh impact. She lands on the floor behind one of the tables and is reeling from the blast but unfortunately lands on a group of rats which scatter and run underneath her. She falls though and panicky moves feeling the disgusting creatures. She soon sees the head coming for her, she then sees a couple of the disgusting rat creature trying to knaw at both her boots. She picks both up by the tails and then throws them the heads direction.
Both the rats fly in midair and the head sees them and like an expert skeet shooter blasts each of them with his laser eyes and they blow apart catching on fire at first. She then gets up and then presses another button marked 2 and on the left side of the remote where her back wrist is located two mini rods come out and suddenly get charged up. The head suddenly turns her direction but too late when Mable does a right punching motion.
Mabel says, "Lightening Punch!"
The punch connects and goes right through the head at first connecting with the upper lip and then sinking through going straight through the brain to the back of the head. Mable has a look of small triumph but also looks at her right hand in slight disgust as she realizes she has some of the head orange entrails and blood on it. But suddenly she hears a noise and she executes a roll when thee is a very big green glowing beam that sweeps her direction and almost fries her had she not dove for cover and the tables and crew covered by the beam are in a blaze of green fire. She looks and takes a breath.
She pops up briefly and discharges on lightening beam, but the Microwave zombie can conceal it out with he green beam and then once again discharges the big green beam her direction and Mabel she rolls rabidly as the beam does it's sweep of the area making the green firestorm eave worse. Suddenly the discharge it spent, and Mabel stops rolling. She realizes she has only mere seconds to come up with something and once again has a plan.
She says to herself, "I don't like making a mess but…."
She presses a yellow button and then come up, points the remote but not at the microwave zombie but at a table and she levitates it with some other beam she fires that can grasp and control solid objects of any weight.
The table is flying and suddenly tipping over with all the disgusting trashed food on the table coming down out eh zombie and he falls off balance and slips from the wet litter. Mabel then presses the white button again reactivating the lightening shield. The zombie is about to shoot out his green beam at Mabel. But the whole beam is seconds faster as it comes right onto the microwave oven.
The green beam discharges but misfires as the shield causes the beam to backfire right on the oven. The green beam energy covers the oven and then the zombie and then suddenly both erupt, Mabel covers her eyes from the brief flash and soon he zombie has just disappeared along with his microwave the only truce is some black ash with an outline of a person.
Mabel says, "That's why you should never use nuclear energy."
Meanwhile, Candy is kneeling a while but after hearing the vile comments for so long it the suddenly fuels a rage inside her which courses all over her body and then she stands up and then delivers a big uppercut toward the lead girl and she drops to the ground. Then takes another girl and slams her to one set of lockers and then the other set and then shoves her toward her other b…. click friends.
One girl grabs Candy by the collar but Candy defends herself by knocking the girl's grasp away with her left arm by using an inner block and then turning the arm and hammer fisting horizontal into the girls left floating rib and then punching the floating rib making the girl stagger back and then go down. Meanwhile there is one more girl that suddenly punches Candy in the face before Candy sees her and it breaks a lens of her glasses. Candy she then takes the glasses off and throws them down with inferno anger in her eyes and then decks the girl hard with a right hood and she goes down and slides a little on the slick floor.
Candy then says, "You hit like a p…."
She then rubs her eyes with two of her fingers and then sees each of the felled girls and sees their skin is all grey and brown like it's been in decay for the longest time and their hair is all white and grey. One group of three that is on the floor gets up and there is just grim looks on their faces and no eyeholes that just stare at her. Another punched out gets up which is the blond lead girl whose hair is complete white, and face looks like that of a mummy as most of the skin has sunken in and is just about skeletal, there are no eyes in its sockets but are still looking at Candy.
Candy then backs away from the really messed up zombies of the popular in-crowd. Suddenly Mabel she bursts in to the hallway and the zombie girls notice her and Mable she once again presses the button and shoots the zombies with the electro beam and then once their zapped suddenly each of their heads burst and arms and black blood geysers out of the stumps on their bodies and as the geyser effect slows down the bodies collapse.
Mabel says, "I hate b… clubs"
Candy looks at Mabel with surprise and says, "Lightening Woman."
Mabel has a small smile on her and she takes off the mask. Candy then has a small smile.
"Mabel should've though you'd want to dress up as one of your favorite superheroes."
Mabel says, "Crimson is right we can be whatever we want in this realm."
Candy says, "I should of thought of that."
"Now we need to think of the others."
Mabel bring up her wrist and has a radar on Wendy's location. She's about to run but Candy says, "Wait before
Candy then suddenly burst into some red yellow light Mabel covers her yes, a moment and then she sees Candy whom is in a spandex where she is Crimson dark red but has long black boots and silver shoulder pads and has two bolts of lightening on her chest but their both pointing diagonal left and right. She has a helmet that covers her head and visors which are dark tinted barely seeing the eyes. Helmet covers her head and visors which are dark tinted barely seeing the eyes. Helmet covers her head except for the mouth and chin. Helmet is also Crimson red. She also has a wrist device same as Mabel.
Candy says, "Lighting Woman wouldn't be complete without Jolt Girl."
And then both run together to get Wendy out.
Meanwhile, Wendy she is running away form the darkness which is suffocating but the big shadowy figure that seems to be gaining on her. She wanted to be with her friends again and most of all Dipper once more. She keeps running but she's not sure of where she's going let alone where the light is. She then sees a little speck of light and she then looks at a part of her own skin which is pale white and grey even wrinkly a bit and she doesn't' know why, she looks at the other arm which is the same. She then touches her face and it feels rough and even saggy and she feels some puss that is leaking down. Wendy gets a cold sad chill as she wonders what has happened to her body and worst of all he big shadow figure is closing in on her. Suddenly the double door burst open and she sees two figures which she isn't sure who, but they looked a lot like Lighting Woman and Jolt Girl.
Mabel then says, "This way Wendy."
But due to the skin condition she has physically notices and how it's affected her physical movements, she is reluctant to do so.
"No, stay back, I have some sort of disease."
Mabel looks at Candy and says, "What's wrong with her?"
"Must be the area she's in."
Candy looks the direction Wendy's and is startled. Mable notices Candy's gesture and looks the same direction and just about jumps as she sees the same big shadow figure that is coming near Wendy.
Mabel says, "Wendy you have to get out of there."
"No."
Mabel is about to run in, but Candy stops her, and she says, "Wait."
She then activates something on her wrist gadget and suddenly there is another mini rod that retracts but it is yellow and then it shoots out a burst that light up the entire area in very bright light. Wendy can barely see anything as the light is blinding but it makes the shadow and just suddenly disappear. Mabel suddenly comes in and pulls Wendy out. Wendy and Mabel are out of that dark hallway and put themselves at a distance. Before doing that Candy with another button activates another mini rod which is one to the left. And both the left and right rod activate and with the electro poker can produce some sort of beam which Candy aims at the crutch of the double doors and she brings it down and to a corner or two them moves. Soon Candy is done wielding. She then runs and can't help but look at the wrist device and acts a little excited, knowing she got to wield it and became one of her favorite superheroes.
Wendy, she has her hands on her face and says, "No, no I don't want to look, don't come near me Mabel, Canty, you don't' want to be near me."
Mabel is puzzled and says, "What are you talking about, Wendy open your eyes."
"I'm ugly I'm…"
"No, you're not, just take a look slowly."
Wendy is still a little petrified with four eyes and sees her skin on her palms a healthy color tan and she then moves them away from her more and it's the same with her arms and then she feels her face and it feels smooth and normal.
Wendy says, "I'm, I'm normal again."
"Man, that room that messed you up."
"You mean."
Candy then steps up.
"Yes, it was an illusion, that is what most dreams are made of."
Wendy says, "But why…."
I'm afraid there's not much time to explain we've got to find the rest. Wendy shakes her head still a little raddled from her experience and then she stands up with Mabel's help and then along with Mabel she activates her holographic radar and runs with them. Candy is seeing the blip of her boyfriend Darrien in the pool section.
Wendy looks at both Mabel and Cady while running and says, "Why are both of you dressed as the TV heroes Lightening Woman and Jolt Girl."
Mabel then says, "Why not?"
As both continue running, Wendy sees something she hasn't seen in a while both Mabel and Candy working together again.
Talon is getting drowned by this gang of demons. Talon he then struggles to reach out with his right hand to get to his left wrist and then suddenly pushes a button and then suddenly when activated he feels this great surge that hits him almost as if whatever it is somehow feeding him and every muscle in his body. And then just as the gang seems like they drowned him, Talon then burst upward and flings each of the gang members off him.
One of the gang members with his knife comes after Talon and is going for an overhead stab but Talon immediately approaches and grabs the right arm with the knife with his left hand but with his right he grabs the gang member by the throat and with his momentary super strength he is able with his left hand to crush the gang member's wrist and hand as if it were just paper.
As he does this the gang member's hand and part of its wrist are crushed and squashed into black bloody mulch that falls into the pool and with his right hand he crushes the undead gang members larynx and that is crushed hard and then pulls out. The undead Gang member's throat gushers out some blood that lands a few feet across coloring the water black and then the undead gang member sinks into the water.
There is another gang member that is coming after Talon swiping at him with the knife, but Talon blocks it, grabs the gang member's left arm with both hand and with his right leg uses it as a partial leverage to then pull hard and then completely rip out the gang member arm. The undead gang member screams out in pain from the stump that is now gushering black blood that is now painting the pool water with more black color. And then Talon he uses the gang members arm like a baseball bat and then swings at him hard and whacks the guy and he goes down and is another body that sinks in the pool. There is one last gang member which is the lead guy whom grasps Talon by the throat with both hands but Talon he grasps the zombie gang member left hand and Talon crosses his bionic arm to his right on top of the gang member's left arm and then executes a back handed knife hand strike toward the gang member's neck. The zombie releases Talon and then Talon suddenly grabs the head of the gang member with his bionic arm and then starts a crushing motion. There is the sound of a crack of the skull and then the crack just grows bigger the more he continues the motion and then suddenly the zombies skull gets soft and mushy with black blood covering Talon's bionic hand and then Talon lets go and the zombie goes straight down the pool once again it's blood colors the pool black and most of the pool now looks like it's colored in deep black or the scene of an oil spill.
Talon then swims and then he climbs up on the shore and he then suddenly see Candy whom then runs toward him and hugs him. He doesn't know why she's dressed the way she is, but it just felt good having her in his arms but mainly feeling her arms around him. She then quickly hands him his helmet, Talon then uses his right hand and goes to his metallic arm, on his wrist there is another button a silver button his presses it and then he flips his left arm right side up and suddenly there is a compartment that slowly retracts out and there is a mini rack of thing silver battery clips. He takes one and the rack retracts back into his arm and closes. He then connects the silver batter clip right onto his helmet and then closes the compartment for it. Then he slowly and smoothly puts the helmet back on along with the silver faceplate. He is now once again whole, before both Mabel and Wendy came to the pool area. Mabel, she has her right fist do a small curve.
Mabel says, "Darn almost saw him without the mask."
Wendy then looks at both and says, "Are you guys alright?"
Candy says, "Yeah, no problem"
Talon soon get his mask operable again and then stand up looking at the group.
"We need to get Dipper and get ourselves the hell out of this place."
Wendy says, "But where can Dipper be."
Mabel she still feels the connection to Dipper and soon the feeling is a little stronger. Mabel says, "This way?"
Wendy says, "Are you sure, Mabel?"
"My feeling on my brother is never wrong."
They all follow Mabel, out of the school pool area and they are running down the hallway quickly hoping they won't get caught in any more traps. And then suddenly they are led to the hallway where just several yards away a set of double doors that lead straight into the auditorium/theater.
Talon says, "Mabel, everyone let me handle this one, I can deal with it, I owe Wendy this."
Candy says, "Are you sure about this?"
Talon gives a slight nod and says, "Trust me."
A few spotlights are on one the stage and then a spotlight is on Dipper. He is looking around and wonders why he's on stage let alone how he even got here at all. Suddenly there is a light shown on the podium and for some reason he feels compelled to walk toward it and just as he steps up he sees there are lots of people in the audience. But their all quiet and he can't really see their faces since there is juts pitch black darkness and shadow covering the faces. Then Dipper he comes up to make his speech and just as he is speaking suddenly he makes some sort of garbled sounds. Then he hears a big sum of people laugh which is a little quiet, but he hears it, though the laughter doesn't sound like the typical amusing type but cold almost the kind some person who feels nothing for hurting or killing another person.
Then he tries again but suddenly his voice is mumbling, Dipper doesn't understand what's happened to his voice but then he hears the laughter of one male person and he laughs in a very flat and slow tone but then it suddenly catches on as he suddenly hears laughter from other direction where its' another person and then another. The same flat tone and then it just grows and grows the laughter becomes more hysterical and sinister.
Dipper doesn't understand why everyone is laughing but suddenly he feels a itching sensation and he sees his arm and it is dry and itchy all over as he is infected with what looks like some sort of eczema as there are some spots and dry cracked surfaces from his forearms to upper and hands itself and some of the cracks and sores bleed out blood and puss that spreads throughout the skin making the skin feel almost a slight burn sensation which makes the pain worse. He then feels his face which seems to be covered with some blubs everywhere almost like tumors. He constantly hears the laughter and he look toward the audience and sees their all pitch black skinned completely dark as shadows or oil, they hardly had any features at all there was no eyebrows or hair their scalp was completely smooth.
Two things that were visible were their eyes that were multicolored and their mouths which displayed big grins that revealed shark teeth. All are cackling, baring and opening their teeth. Suddenly a few of the sores on his face pop open spewing out some more blood and puss. Dipper then feels the temp of the spot light which is burning a bit of his skin making the cracks on the skin a little wider and the flow of blood and puss a bit faster. But non were ever worse than the sound of the laughter that were drowned him, he could barely breath the humiliation was to much and he goes down on this knees from aches he suddenly feels from parts of his legs which have some sort of blood shots and he tries to take over his ears which he can barely do as there in intense pain just as his soul is from the roaring laughter.
Then suddenly the double doors burst open and its Talon that comes out.
Talon says, "The comedy club's closed!"
Suddenly his bionic arm then transforms, his bionic arm and hand does a series of configurations by splitting apart his forearm and hand and in the middle there is a muscle, both the split parts of his bionic arm then slide to the bottom and connect acting as a cradle for the muscle but also at the bottom the split hands have put together a mini power pack for the muscle. He then aims the arm cannon and then shoots out some fire toward the demonic audience. A large sum of them in the middle get engulfed in the flames and some of them are flailing as the fire is eating away at their skin and body. He then changes the flame unit to mode 2 and it then fires out three fire balls out in Northwest to east quadrants of the auditorium.
When the fire balls reach their destinations they immediately detonate and spread fire in a wide radius of fire engulfs and hits all the demons stationed there and some instantly collapse from the flames and a few are able the flay and run.
All the fire in places distracted the demons and gave Talon an opening to get to Dipper. Talon runs toward the stage; one demon gets up out of an aisle and charges him but Talon back hand whips the demon in the head which breaks an eye socket bone of the demon and it goes down while Talon still runs. Then a couple more from the isles come out toward him, Talon then at the right moment then executes a right spinning hook kick connecting with the first charging demons head and then a right jump spinning hook kick which connects to the other demon's head.
Talon then continually runs and then executes a summersault onto the stage. Dipper sees Talon and weakly backs away, but Talon puts his hand up and comes slightly closer. Talon says, "Have no fear, I won't hurt you, Wendy sent me."
Talon sees the demonic grinning audience they are trying to run up to the stage and Talon he turns his flame unit up real high and then spreads the fire near the auditorium and creates a fire wall which keeps the demons from coming to them. Talon gives out his hand and Dipper at first is hesitant but then takes it and both are exiting form back stage while the auditorium is on fire and spreading. Talon and Dipper go out a door and Dipper has Talon's military jacket over his face covered and Talon helps escort Dipper the right direction out.
But just as their about to leave as the auditorium is falling apart, suddenly there is one person that jumps though the wall of flame and onto the stage. Dipper and Talon sees who it is and immediately recognizes whom it is, whom is wearing the grey black skull hoodie and has grey and decaying skin and eyes in hollowed in sockets. Both Dipper and Talon immediately recognize who it is. The zombified Robbie looks at Crimson and says, "Who's the loser with the steel arm?"
Talon then point the muscle of his arm canon and says, "The Kiss Army."
He then blasts the zombified Robbie with napalm flames and zombie Robbie flays in pain and agony as the fire burns right though him and he runs and falls into the wall of fire.
Talon says, "I've wanted to do that the day I meet him."
Talon he takes something out of his own wallet which has a driver license with his picture still in uniform and mask, and in one of the folds he takes out a folded piece of printed paper, unfolds it and then walks toward Mabel says, "Mabel take a look at this photo and focus really hard." "What are you trying…." "Just trust me." Normally she doesn't but with
As soon as Mabel has the image in her mind clearly inside and out she then says to Talon.
"Alright got it."
"Alright now we'll both look at it together and concentrate hard."
Mabel and Talon while he holds the picture in front of them both have the place in their mind and suddenly there is something from out the fields and it is glowing green and suddenly a big building block emerges and glows green and then suddenly it's a place a restaurant and fun zone with multi colored letters called Explorer Zone.
Talon then waves everyone in, "C'mon don't worry it's safe."
They all go inside, and the door slide open. Everyone is inside, and they see a place that just spells fun all over as in one section there is a big area where there is an interconnection of colored pipes and tubes, mazes which lead to slides that go down several placed ball pits. Another which is a room that has a series of video games cabinets in endless rows that go on almost several miles long. And plenty of other places within the place. Dipper then runs and Mabel she sees Dipper running and says, "Hey, Dipper where are you going."
They see him going into a section which is the laser tag maze area. Mabel is about to go in but then Wendy holds her hand in front of her along with her other hand for the rest.
Wendy says, "I better go and talk to him."
Mabel really want to be the one to do it but realizes that having her do it may help bring Dipper back from the brink and she nods and then Wendy runs into the maze.
Wendy is looking all over the maze and is calling out to him. It takes a while but then suddenly she sees Dipper and he is on the top floor of a fort like structure which has a couple of ramps on the right and left side of it, windows on it's three castle like walls. Wendy climbs up the left ramp and then sees Dipper whom on the left-hand corner of the walls. Dipper he is still covered in Crimson's jacket and is facing the wall still afraid of the appearance he can display, afraid of the ugliness she's about to see and the ugliness he feels. Wendy, she approaches Dipper slowly and then before she comes close Dipper suddenly he turns around just to get it over with. She can't see his face as the cape completely covers his face.
Wendy then breathes out and says, "Let me see your face."
Dipper says, "Wendy please go away."
"You never wanted me away in your life, why now."
"I've, I'm…. I'm a monster."
"That's not true."
"No, what ever you do don't touch me or even look at me."
"I want to look at you, I want to see you, but I also want you to see me; look I understand what you've been though the same thing happened to me and I beat it, and so can you, we can beat this thing together"
"But…."
"No, buts Dipper, we promised that to each other remember."
Dipper his head is bowed, and he is very still for a moment thinking about what Wendy has said to him and he slowly turns himself around to face her, but he is still conceal in the jacket Talon game him and his face is in the darkness of the collar used to veil his face.
Dipper says, "You might not like what you see, are you sure."
"I'm willing to take that risk, you know me just as I know you."
She put her hand out at first touching the shoulder area and feeling how warm Dipper's shoulder feels and she then pulls back part of the coat and as she lifts it she sees Dipper's arm look normal as it is the normal color of human flesh and uncorrupted. She slowly uncovers the other jacket and it's the same think with the other arm. Wendy then makes it to the final touch as she then pulls back the collar part of the coat that Dipper used as a hoodie to cover his face. She then pulls back the hood completely and she then touches Dipper's face but once she does Dipper doesn't feel any more tumors but Wendy's fingers touching smooth flesh and Wendy's hand runs it on his face a little more. He touches his face and feels an actual face and he then produces a smile slowly and then both kiss with a passion.
After the kiss they get back to the matter at hand, just like with Mabel, Dipper leaves the dream world briefly, the Mystery Investigators all of them are at the café part of the fun zone as it has a sort of almost retro look as it's sort of done to look like the 80's with the amount of color, in walls there are movie posters for films that have already came out in the 80's, let alone spinning chairs, color that has brightness, neon and some crazy designs. All are sitting down on one of the café couches in a seated booth waiting. And Dipper comes back, and he is whole once more as he's in his usual kaki shorts, red T-shirt, Blue vest, and Cap with a Pine Tree on. Mabel runs to him first and hugs him and so does Wendy and like wise Candy except for Talon as both Dipper and him are both still enemies which might complicate things, but underneath the face plate Talon is smiling. After everyone has had their moment they all get back to the matter at hand.
Mabel says, "We've got to find Adam."
Wendy says, "But where could he be?"
Dipper says, "Knowing him he could be just about anywhere, he has multiple hobbies, he hates being in one place too long, and in the dream realm this place has infinite possibilities."
Along the walk someplace else and he is thinking about where his brother could be. Candy comes to him and wonders what he's thinking.
Candy says, "Darrien?"
Talon then says, "How can this person, really hurt Adam, what could my brother fear?"
But then suddenly all of them hear some loud noises coming from someplace and Talon he then walks right to the front doors along with the rest and they see out from the front door windows there is noise and light that are beaming and moving along with lots of heavy noise of cheering and just all-around excitement.
Dipper says, "Of course that's where he'd likely be."
Talon says, "Your right Football is one of my brother's favorite sports, mine too."
Candy says, "How would playing football be made into a nightmare?"
"I don't know but we'll find out."
They all then get out of the school and run straight across to the Football stadium as they hear the crowd which is massive and seem rather monstrous as they hear some sort of roars going on and other noises they both can't identify. They both go in silently into a stadium with crowds demanding excitement and blood.