Chapter 10: Technologic Park!
'Will's system deleted Gideon's virus, thus turning the control board back into a good guy! However, the team lost a very valuable member of their cohort. A moment of silence for the fallen member!'
Previously
"What's going on here?!" Gideon snaps, unpleased at what he just witnessed. "This wasn't a part of my plan!"
"I'm what's going on here and let's just say your plans are washed up!" Will replies now stepping into view and waving at Gideon. "I hope this little display was enough to wet your palette as you requested. I'm no longer under your control and now have full control of my program again! How do you like me now?"
"Way to go Will!" Mabel cheers to him with Gideon placing his hand over her mouth.
"The betrayal!" Gideon screams, now turning to his group. "We have to regroup! Let's go!"
Yanking Mabel along, Gideon and his group now exit the emperor's box, heading back to the castle.
"Will you're back!" Princess screams, her and Wyn now glomping the control board and nearly knocking him over. "But how? I thought you were evil?"
"Well temporarily I was due to Gideon blocking my program code from updating my system, but somehow my code worked around his viral code, updated my files, ran my anti-virus program, and deleted his code, therefore restoring me back to well, me." Will explains with Princess gaining a confused expression at the technical talk Will just gave both girls. Noticing the look on her face, Will playfully rolls his eyes. "My system was able to work around his virus to restore my program back to working order."
"Now with our monsters destroyed, what are we going to do about Dipper?" Wyn questions as she turns and notices Rumble perform an uppercut on Dipper, the boy's life bar now at less than fifty percent from the hit. "Without weapons, he's a sitting duck!"
"You just leave that to me!" Will speaks, placing his hands together while cracking his knuckles.
"But I thought you couldn't interfere in fights with level bosses." Wyn says to Will.
"That's the thing about rules, they are meant to be broken in certain instances." Will replies.
Currently
A huge fireball from the fired up fight fighter slams into Dipper's chest, the injured player now hitting the ground as he flashes orange, an indication that he has less than forty percent of his life bar left and that another hit like that from Rumble will delete the player from the game permanently! A half of a golden heart now appears over Dipper's head, showing everyone how many lives he has left to his stats.
"I see you have deceived both yourself and myself." Rumble speaks to Dipper as he now hovers over the fallen player, who lifts his head to look to the fighter despite how much of a struggle it is to do so. "You have only improved to the point of still being beaten by me!"
"Winners…..don't….lose." Dipper weakly speaks to the fighter as he begins trying to climb to his feet, only to fall back to the ground with his sword lying under him. "I….won't….be….beaten…by….you! Not…..a….second…time!"
"You do not have the power to defeat me a second time!" Rumble continues, now picking the injured player up off the ground by his neck as a mother cat would do when carrying her kittens in her mouth. "You will not stop me from flying to the Soviet Union and defeating the one who killed my father again!"
"Will, whatever you're going to do, you better do it and fast!" Princess urges the control board, seeing that Dipper is flashing different colors, a clear indication that the player doesn't have much energy, let alone lives, left in him to fight.
"Way ahead of you Princess." Will replies to the blonde, his eyes still on the fight between Dipper and Rumble. Having cracked his knuckles, Will now places his hands together with the palms of his hands now shining cyan with a plan quickly forming in the control board's mind as to how he is going to help Dipper defeat the nine pack fight fighter.
Holding Dipper by the neck with his right hand, Rumble now balls up his left hand with it beginning to glow a bright cyan, surges of power forming around the appendage as if it were a machine powering up to release a large amount of energy so to power an entire city!
"Are there any last words before I lay you to rest?" Rumble questions to Dipper, who is looking as if he is on the verge of passing out at any moment. With what little energy Dipper has left in him, he looks to his right to spot Will watching the battle with the palms of his hands glowing brightly. Sending a wink in the weakened player's direction, Dipper manages to muster a tiny smile.
"Yea….just…a…few.." Dipper stammers out. "I've…won!"
Becoming confused by the boy's choice of last words and before he can respond to them, Rumble is now hit directly in the chest with a large blue beam, which makes the fighter drop Dipper as he is thrown back onto the dirt ground. Being free from the fighter's hold, Dipper is now encased in a blue force field and like the sun above providing the earth with his rays of light, the force field now shines specks of rays directly onto Dipper, the boy's visible injuries now beginning to heal. Not just the injuries, but the player's lives and points lost to Rumble are now replenished along with his life bar being refilled back to its max! The supposed protective suit of armor that is heavily dented is now replaced with an indestructible suit of armor, the metal material being the same as Wyn's armory shield. With his injuries completely healed, his suit of armor replaced, his lives, points, and life bar refilled, and his sword now getting a last minute upgrade, Dipper is now back to full max and ready to finish the fight with Rumble!
Feeling a sense of renewal and with all of his resources back to where they were before taking those deadly hits, Dipper now jumps to his feet with the force field around him disappearing. Wielding his sword, whose blade has grown a foot longer and is now glowing with a golden aura, a grin forms on the boy's face as he eyes his opponent.
"You ready to finish this?" Dipper speaks to Rumble, his tone full of determination.
Having taken that direct hit in the chest from Will, Rumble now climbs to his feet, despite changing different colors and his life bar at fifteen percent, a result of the attack from Will.
"I am determined to fly to the Soviet Union and take down the one who killed my father!" Rumble repeats as he places his palms together to summon another fireball. "You will not stop me!"
"How about I send you to see your father?" Dipper speaks. "First Class!"
Gripping the handle of his sword and in the blink of an eye, a flash of gold quickly passes in front of Rumble's vision, the fighter now falling back onto the ground with his body glitching horribly and his life bar now at point five percent! Noticing his enemy down, Dipper approaches him as he places his sword to his right side.
"I do not understand!" Rumble begins. "I am the greatest fight fighter! I cannot be defeated by you! I won't be able to defeat the one who killed my father again!"
"When you see your father, tell him I have a little present for him." Dipper hisses as he raises his sword, both of his hands now gripping the handle of the weapon. With a glint of rage sparking in his vision, Dipper now brings his glowing sword down on the nine pack fighter, stabbing him directly in the chest! The point five percent life bar now empties to zero with Rumble glitching and now fading away like dust in the wind.
With his greatest enemy defeated, Dipper falls to one knee and is panting heavily as he slightly leans forward on his sword's handle, the battle between himself and his long time nemesis now at an end. Shutting his eyes tightly, Dipper draws in a breath but just as quickly releases it while opening his eyes.
"As I said before, Winners Don't Lose!" Dipper says as if talking to the defeated player.
"Dipper you did it!" Wyn and Princess shout with glee to Dipper as they run over to him and help him to his feet, the boy still slightly exhausted from the battle. "You defeated Rumble!"
"Hey, I said winners don't lose right?" Dipper gently replies to the girls with a smile as they hug him and he returns the hug to them. "I like to keep my promise any way I can."
"You three are absolutely outstanding!" Will praises the three as he approaches the team. "Definitely better than any player I've ever encountered through all of my years of controlling this game!"
"We couldn't have done it without you Will." Princess replies to the control board with a praise of her own. "I'm so happy you're the good guy again!"
"Yea, speaking of that." Dipper begins with the girls releasing him. "I thought you were working for Gideon. Why did you help us?"
"Well I was working for Gideon due to a virus code that he used to take over my systems." Will explains, a ping of guilt hitting the control board. "But somehow my system was able to override his code and delete it entirely, thus returning me back to me. I have full control over my systems again with no way for that little skunk to take control of me again as I was upgraded with one powerful firewall that not even the most powerful of malware can get around!"
"So the maze some ways back was your doing!" Dipper points out. "But I now know why. Its glad to have you back on our side man."
"You have no idea how good it is to be back, but it's not just me that is back on your side." Will replies, a wide smile appearing. "Someone else wants to say hello again as well."
Turning from the team, Will places his hands side by side and swiftly pulling them apart, a large yellow orb now appears in front of everyone with it taking a very familiar shape. The shape of the orb now becomes more defined with it disappearing to reveal Spider, the arachnid looking around the area as if it has returned from a stray path!
"Spider!" Wyn, Dipper and Princess shout as they run to the arachnid and engulf it in a hug.
"I thought we lost this guy for good!" Wyn speaks. "It's good to have you back buddy."
"Despite how freaky you look, I missed you too." Princess says to the insect, it purring at the love it is receiving from the team. "We've couldn't have made it this far without you."
"Ok everyone, now that the level boss has been defeated and level three is complete, you have officially finished the stage per the requirements, despite the setbacks that occurred, and are now free to move onto level four." Will says to everyone, them turning to the control board and noticing him balancing a spinning gold coin on the tip of his right index finger. "I can't say enough how proud of you guys I am with each stage you complete, but I must warn you, level four is a real nail biter and if you think the world is far from the space age, you've got another thing coming!"
Tossing the coin into the air, it vanishes with the colosseum disappearing and the gates of level four appearing in front of everyone, the same direction as the former grated doors of the colosseum. The doors of the level now open with everyone seeing just what Will was talking about, a complete and total technologic upgrade from the past three levels. A laser cannon from the ground now fires into the sky with what looks to be a plane now crashing to the ground and exploding into white hot flames! Seeing the explosion, Spider winces with Princess and Wyn gasping at the sight of the machine burning right before their very eyes. Having witnessed the explosion himself, Dipper is unphased by it considering what he just faced with the level boss!
"Shall we proceed everyone?" Will speaks to everyone, the team now approaching the doors of level four with Will and Spider bringing up the rear.
Now entering the level with the gates closing behind them, the trio, Will, and Spider now step onto an elevated platform with them getting a good look at what they will be facing very soon. On the ground just below the platform everyone is standing on, motion and heat detected/sensor laser cannons are randomly planted as they search around for their next target, hanging and swinging from the ceiling are large guillotines that are swinging between four leveled platforms that lead to falling spikes that are blocking the path between the fifth and sixth leveled platforms as it rises and falls. The spikes are so sharp that the pointed ends rival that of several scalpels that doctors use in surgery!
Far beyond the spikes and guillotines are laser beam traps that quickly appear and reappear and are blocking the next land of ground that is sitting right before a clear path with metallic flowers that are peacefully planted on the ground. Just seeing the amount of metal and death traps that await them, Princess can feel her right eye beginning to twitch.
"We do get all new weapons so to make it through this death trap right?" Princess questions to the control board, her eyes never leaving the area ahead of her.
"Now would I ever let you guys go into something like this without the proper weapon system and game plan?" Will happily replies to the blonde. "I might have been evil once, but I can never do that to you guys!"
"I never knew my game had this level in it." Dipper dryly speaks, his left eye now beginning to twitch from seeing another plane get shot to the ground. "I thought it was completely prehistoric."
"Hello! Micro-chips to Dipper!" Will says to the player. "This game got a complete turn over thanks to the dictator on level twelve! This game was peaceful before he took over and level four was once full of life. The lushest green grass that you only see in dreams, happily frolicking animals, even the plant life was peaceful, but now it's nothing more than a technologic wasteland. Luckily, I have the perfect guide in mind that will get your team through this with very little scratches as possible! So huddle up everyone as I have one sweet plan that will give you all the full court advantage!"
"I still opt for no scratches." Wyn replies as everyone now turns to Will.
"I'm with her." Princess agrees, her eye still twitching.
Level 12 (Control Room)
Having lost what he considers the team's life line, Gideon is pacing back and forth in front of the controls with a disgusted look on his face as were-Robbie watches him pace. The werewolf can feel his vision beginning to blur from watching Gideon pace back and forth!
"That traitor!" Gideon shouts, throwing his arms in the air. "That gosh darn TRAITOR! How dare he defy me like that! I was so sure I had the advantage this time, but yet, that pesky control board manages to override my virus and helps them out! Just what is it going to take to take them down?! Everything I tried to this point has failed! This is so frustrating!"
Were-Robbie grunts in response to Gideon's ranting with the boy whipping his attention to him, a scowl crossing his face, his cheeks as red as tomatoes, and his teeth grinding together as if trying to ground themselves down to stumps! If the albino had a lid to blow, it would have surely blown by now!
"You keep quiet!" Gideon snaps to the monster. "No one asked your opinion at all! You're barely any good to me now as it is! If it weren't for you keeping my goddess in line, I'd have no need for you at all!"
Whimpering at Gideon's harsh tongue lashing, were-Robbie cowers a bit in the corner that he is currently standing in.
"I have to find a way to stop Dipper, but what can I come up with that I haven't already tried?" Gideon thinks out loud while continuing to pace around in a circle. Coming to a halt, Gideon turns his attention back to the monitor and notices what level everyone is on now, the sensor/motion detected ground laser cannons and swinging guillotines now becoming of interest to the boy. As if hypnotized by the heavy machinery on the level, Gideon walks over to the monitor and leans in closer so to get a better look at all of the death traps the level consists of, the laser traps included. With a wide smile coming to the boy's face, he begins laughing in a hysterical manner with each bout he releases getting louder by the second.
"That's it!" Gideon finally speaks, his attention still glued to the screen. "That's it! Why didn't I think of this before?! I totally overlooked the obvious!"
Pulling the chair away from the desk, Gideon plops down in it and begins quickly typing on the keyboard as fast as his chubby fingers will go while jiggling the joy stick. The screen now changes from the team and to a completely blank black screen with an outline appearing on it. Hitting the control and shift keys at once, the outline now fills in revealing the outline to belong to the Gideon-Bot!
"I can't believe I almost missed this!" Gideon repeats, his vision darting between the screen and the keyboard as he continues furiously typing away with tiny beads of sweat now springing up on his forehead. "This was one of my most advanced if not better weapons back in Gravity Falls, despite Dipper bringing it down!"
Entering in the program that he has in mind and hitting enter, a small screen now appears in front of the bot's picture, it listing what weapons and abilities the robot currently has and a list of weapons/abilities that can be added to the robot upon command. Reading through the screen, Gideon squints his vision.
"Ok, can lift an object twice its size, can run accelerated circles around any object at lightning speed." Gideon begins reading off the robot's current abilities. "Can crush anything with just one finger, with just one foot can level an entire city, can protect itself with its high voltage force field currently set at fifty volts….."
Seeing that the robot has a force field set at such a weak voltage, Gideon pauses as his vision lingers on the words: Fifty volts! Not bothering to read the rest of the list, the boy is in utter disbelief at what he just read!
"Fifty volts?! Fifty volts?! Just fifty?!" Gideon repeats, being in disbelief that his once powerful weapon that nearly destroyed Gravity Falls for journal one only has a force field strength that is only powerful enough to fry the magnetism in a magnet! "That's all it has to protect itself?! No wonder it was able to be taken down so easily before, but I can guarantee that that will never happen again as it is going to get one heck of an upgrade!"
Hitting the down arrow key on the keyboard, Gideon selects the force field in the window of the robot's current abilities and hits enter with a scroll bar, much like the volume bar for the computer's sound level, appearing with a prompt asking to increase voltage. Nodding his head, the boy continues pressing enter until the bar is now at the other end of the line, indicating that the force field is now at its maximum voltage, that being five hundred volts!
With the force field taken care of, Gideon begins selecting other weapons within the window that he wants his robot's upgrade equipped with such as High Octane Laser Eye Cannons, Tornado Body Twist (the robot's ability to twist it's body around in a circular motion as a last defense action while creating its own funnel vortex), turbo boosters in itself feet, miniature hydrogen bombs that the robot will release from its mouth towards the players, and Robotic Fist Slam, an ability to create a powerful shockwave once the robot bumps it's closed fists together! Being satisfied with the Gideon Bot's total upgrade, Gideon turns the joystick to the right, which confirms the changes he has made with the screen with the players on it returning.
Seeing Will explaining to the trio and Spider their next moves through the level, the boy cracks a twisted grin as a shadow appears on the left side of his face.
"Oh yes, lead them to their doom Will." Gideon whispers in a hiss. "Lead them to their doom that will take place in my personal playground or better yet, a place I'd like to call my Technologic Park! They will never make it to level 5!"
Master Bedroom
Having been brought back to the castle and locked back in her room, Mabel has began her own pacing while trying to come up with a way to escape back into the game so to help her team. Having witnessed Will override Gideon's virus code and return to himself, she has to find a way to get back to her team or at the very least, reach Will so he can help her get back into the game!
Bill has taken a seat on the bed and is watching the girl pace back and forth, his vision darting back and forth with each movement she makes.
"I have to get out of here Bill!" Mabel speaks with impatience. "I have to get back to Dipper and the others! This has nothing to do with me, but more Gideon going after Dipper! Not that I want him going after my brother, but you get what I'm trying to say! The plan I gave you so to distract Gideon long enough so I can contact everyone only worked for such a short time, but still failed! I'm all fresh out of ideas! What am I going to do? Ugh, blarg! I hate being the damsel in distress!"
Turning his vision to the ground, Bill begins thinking of how he can cheer Mabel up or at least try to help her take her mind off of the situation at current. Considering that he has fallen for the older Pines, he has taken an interest in knowing exactly what the girl looks for in a guy, but would right now really be a good time to ask her such a question?
"Shooting Star." Bill begins as he lifts his vision to the girl, noticing that she has stopped her pacing and is now looking in his direction. "I know right now may not be a good time to ask this, but what exactly do you like in a guy?"
A confused look now crossing her face at hearing what the demon just asked her, Mabel is taken aback by the question, clearly confused at why Bill would ask that question, especially now of all times!
"Bill, why would you ask me something like that?! Especially now of all times?!" Mabel asks, feeling her temper beginning to flare as she approaches the demon. "Now is not the time to ask me what my perfect guy is or what I would like in him! I'm trying to figure out a way to get back into the game so I can stop being the typical damsel in distress! If you really want to help me out, you can start by helping me get this ring off my finger!"
Cupping her right hand's thumb and index finger around the ring for the sixth time since being locked in her room, Mabel once again tries prying the piece of jewelry from her hand with all of her might, despite the lingering pain in her hand from trying previously.
"Why won't this stupid ring come off?" Mabel chokes out as she continues trying to pry the ring off, it remaining stuck to her hand as if it were placed on with industrial strength crazy glue! Feeling her strength quickly cycle out, Mabel once again gives up at trying to remove the ring that Gideon placed on her. "It feels as if he crazy glued this ring to my finger!"
"Let me give it a try." Bill offers to the girl. "I believe it needs a demon's touch or should I say, Bill's touch!"
Lifting off of the bed, Bill floats over to Mabel and places his tiny hands around the ring while gathering as much as of his strength as possible with Mabel positioning herself so to pull back as Bill pulls forward.
"Now when I pull forward, you pull back on three." Bill instructs with Mabel nodding her head in agreeance. "One, two, three!"
At that count, Bill begins pulling forward while Mabel begins pulling backwards, the force of both trying to pull the ring off making the girl feel as if her finger is going to be pulled off of her hand at any moment! With both continuing to pull in their respective directions, a sharp pain now shoots through Mabel's hand with the girl shouting, "Stop!"
Quickly letting go of her hand, Mabel plops down on the vanity stool as she rests her chin in her now cupped palms while releasing a sigh of defeat.
"If only my perfect guy would come and rescue me." Mabel sadly states as she swivels around towards the vanity mirror with her vision lowered. "He would be strong, have blonde hair, perfect smile, courageous, and he would kick the living stuffing out of Gideon for even kidnapping me!"
As Mabel spouts off her perfect guy qualities and traits, she is unaware of Bill's body now becoming surrounded by several streams of the binary code, the demon becoming very confused at seeing the streams circling his body. The circling codes now enters his triangular form one by one with Bill's body turning completely transparent and into several tiny streams of the binary code as he is engulfed in a golden bright light.
"His eyes would be a soft grey, he could make me laugh, and it wouldn't hurt that he is a great kisser as I have always dreamed of a guy that would know when and where to kiss me at just the right moment." Mabel continues, her sadness now being replaced with an uplifting hope. "With the softest lips I ever felt. It wouldn't hurt that he is tall as I have always liked tall guys."
Still engulfed in the golden aura, Bill's triangular body now transforms into a human figure with long legs and long arms sprouting with two coat tails belonging to a fancy blazer falling behind him, and his hat appearing over his now wild hair. The signature singular eye the demon normally has now splits into two with the right eye now being covered with an eye patch.
"I want him to be able to assure me that everything will work out despite how bad things look at that moment." Mabel continues expressing with her back still facing the demon. "He will have one of the most alluring tones of voices that I ever heard."
With his body completely transformed from dorito to human, the light surrounding the demon disappears to reveal a now human Bill Cipher wearing black slacks, black shoes, a yellow brick design blazer with coat tails, white shirt underneath the blazer, and a bow tie around his neck that matches his top hat that sits atop his wild blonde hair. Being free from the light's hold, the now human Bill Cipher hits the ground rather roughly, which catches Mabel's attention, her whipping around to see the man lying on the floor on his face. Quickly jumping to her feet, the older pines puts distance between herself and him as she looks around the room for triangular Bill Cipher.
"Ok who are you and what did you do to Bill?!" Mabel asks with panic surging through her vision and voice. "If you're one of Gideon's minions that he sent in here, you better believe I'm not going let you drag me out of here to him! I'm going to fight you un-"
"Relax Shooting Star, I am Bill." Bill answers the frantic girl as he places his right hand to his now human head while lifting himself up. "And could you please keep the shouting to a minimum? I have a splitting headache."
"I'm not buying it!" Mabel angrily retorts. "There is no way you're him! What did you do with him and you better start talking now or else you'll have to face my wrath!"
"I can assure you I am who I say I am Shooting Star." Bill replies, noticing the furious girl grab her hair brush off the vanity counter and hold it up in front of her in defense. "Who else would know the name that only I gave you?"
"That isn't saying much!" Mabel snaps, her gripping the handle of her brush and being ready to strike the now human demon if he so much as takes a step towards her. "If you're really Bill Cipher as you say you are, say something only he knows!"
"Your dream boys were so brightly colored, I nearly went blind from staring at them against all that grey in your uncle's mind and who taught them how to play that kind of music?!" Bill replies as he now sits up into seating position, his right hand still on his head. "Synthetic music is the absolute worst!"
Hearing what Bill just said to her, Mabel is now hit with a wave of shock as her mouth gapes open and the brush she was clinging so dearly to falls out of her hands! Only the real Bill Cipher would be able to recite such a thing as he was the reason why the boys appeared and why the gang were in Stan's grey scale mindscape to begin with!
"Bill?" Mabel squeaks out. "It is you, but….but how? What happened?"
"Your guess is as good as mine is Shooting Star." Bill replies, now catching with the girl's gaze. "But I'm assuming when you were describing your perfect guy, I somehow got turned into him and you can be sure of one thing, I plan to get you out of this mess by any means necessary."
Level Four
A holographic map is now open in front of everyone with a metallic helicopter sitting in the middle of the screen.
"So one hit from these guys and three lives will be taken off your stats." Will continues explaining to the group. "But the good thing is, you can turn the tables on these little guys by deflecting their attacks back to them using the armory shield that Wyn obtained last level. Not only that, if you get them in the way of the heat sensored/motion detected laser cannons, they will be shot down."
"So how is the armory shield going to help me, Dipper, and Spider when only Wyn has one?" Princess points out, the girl flinching slightly at the sound of the ground laser cannon loudly firing at an object in the sky.
"Princess, I thought you knew me better than this." Will replies to the blonde with a laugh. "Of course you're all going to get armory shields, including your newest member of the team, but that's not all you're getting."
"So aside from the enemy planes here, the oil slick flowers, the mechanical tarantulas, the ground cannons that will pop out at us both at machine gun rate and laser blast, and the other death traps that we can clearly see here, are there anymore enemies we need to watch out for?" Dipper questions.
"There are always other enemies that you have to watch out for, but for the enemies that I gave you a heads up on are the enemies that will be the most deadly to you." Will answers Dipper. "But being the great guide that I am, you will not have to face them empty handed."
Raising his right hand into the air, Will now waves it above everyone with the team now being changed into the proper gear and being given the proper weapons for the stage, Spider included. With Dipper already wearing an indestructible suit of armor, an red infrared sensor now appears over his right eye as little numbers and data scrolls along the red lens along with an armory shield appearing on his right wrist. Princess and Wyn are now changed from their outfits and to a suit of armor that is similar to Dipper's but made to fit the female form, an infrared sensor appearing on their right eyes and an armory shield appearing on Princess's right arm, same as Dipper's. Spider is covered from head to toe in armor with a medium sized shield attached to its forehead.
"Now as a late minute note, the sensors that you all wear over your eyes will help you detect enemies from their energy signatures, even from behind you." Will explains. "I also included interchangeable arm cannons in your suit that you can switch off from your shield when it's not needed."
Hearing what Will just said, Princess raises her right arm with her shield now changing off to her arm cannon and it blasting a large red beam into the air! From that shot, a silver blur now hits ground beside them with a moan of pain being heard. Looking down, Dipper's eyes widen at the half human half robot lying in front of them with his mouth falling open!
"Soos?" Is what leaves the boy's mouth.
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