A pine tree Diverges in the woods ch. 37
I OWN AND REGRET NOTHING!
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Dipper barely heard the shouts, the angry cries, the accusations...it all barely registered...he shot a person...And not just any person...May...sure they weren't that close...but she'd done a lot for him and Mabel over the summer...and he shot her...
The next thing he knows, he's sitting in Phil's office with him standing not too far away. "I'm here for you Dipper...you know that right?" Asked Phil. And suddenly Dipper cried, he confessed everything. What Garret said to him and how he had the opportunity to slit an unconscious Gideons throat in the robot...but didn't-
Phil groaned and rubbed his face in frustration...finally he looks Dipper straight in the eyes.
"I'm sorry you had to go through that...But maybe it's for the best...take this tragedy, learn from it...had you hesitated with May like you did Gideon...Well, she wouldn't have her arm in a sling right now"...
Dipper's eye's lit up as he remembered an old proverb. "Better that ten guilty persons escape then that one innocent should suffer." Quoted Dipper in realization.
Phil nodded. "Now your getting it...and that's what sets us apart from the bad guys...when we kill it's only as a last resort...But more importantly; we make sure that person is guilty before we condemn."
Dipper nodded in understanding. Than Phil thought of something else. "As for Gideon- Phil pauses to toss Dipper a night-night gun. "If your ever in a situation like that again...just take them down not out."
Dipper smiled. "Thank you- "Do you read?!" Interrupted garrets voice over the com-link. "Do you read, 6-1-6? - Where's that coming from? - Close. Enemy aircraft on my tail. Over." Phil groaned. "Well talk later!" He shouts as he runs off...
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"I suggest we send more men, shoot that airplane out of the sky." Said one agent at the hub. "No." Stated Hand flatly. "We couldn't seize automated control of Garrett's jet, so I wrote it off as a loss. But now that he's with Coulson, we can cross him off with the rest when they land. Preserve the aircraft."
Agent Shaw musters up the courage to speak. "Uh, mam? What about the kid?" Hand cursed. She'd completely forgotten about him! She groans...the gives a resigned sigh. "Alright...tell the boarding party that if they can, they avoid harming the boy...but the main priority is bringing down Phil...he's too dangerous for us to take any chances."
Another thought occurs to her. "In fact, it's probably best we secure his sister, uncle and friends as well." The men didn't need to be told twice, they were on their way...
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Despite Fitz's best efforts, she'd run into a bit of a dead end. So she had Soos rig up a secure line to Agent Weaver for guidance. "You're positive this line is secure?" "Yeah, but be quick. Nothing looks more guilty than sneaking around." Explained Soos. Suddenly the holographic form of Agent Weaver appeared. "Agent Weaver, thank you for joining me. I-
"Jemma! Thank glob you're still alive!" Interrupted Weaver. "Is the Hub still secure? Are you with your team? Get somewhere safe and lock the door!" "What's happening?" Asked Wendy concerned. "Have your commander report that the academy is under siege! We don't know how long Hydra's been inside S.H.I.E.L.D. But they are taking control!"
Suddenly sounds of gunfire could be heard on the hologram. "Hydra? What? Where?" Asked a bewildered Fitz.
"Everywhere! Among us! If you survive, you'll know where to find me, don't trust anyone!"
BOOM!
And with that, the screen went to static. Stan had already dialed up Mabel's com-link half-way through the message. And breathed a sigh of relief when she tells him that Tripp had already suspected something was up and had moved her to someplace more secure. Which left the next order of business: escape. One quick peek in the hallway showed a large amount of soldiers heading there way, so that was out. Then Wendy got an idea. "The air vent!" Shouted Wendy suddenly. "Quick, help me up!" Quickly they oblige, Wendy has just squeezed herself in-
CRASH!
The door came down, and the soldiers swarmed in. "Hands over your heads! On the ground now!" Fitz, Soos, and Stan quickly complied. Wendy fueled by adrenaline, made her escape. Promising to herself that she'd come back for them...
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"What do you mean you can't find them!?" Demanded Hand while simultaneously watching monitors that showed her men trying to board the Bus. "Mam; Agent Tripp, Mabel Pines, and Wendy Corduroy are all still unaccounted for." Reported an agent.
"Uh, can I just say that whatever...this is, it has nothing to do with me, my family, or my employees." Stated Stan suddenly.
Mrs. Hand glares. "Correction; you weren't involved. But then you got yourself involved regardless...and when a man with a rap sheet as big as yours gets involved with matters such as these...Well, you'll forgive me if I'm not more than a little suspicious."
Right on que an agent reluctantly handed Hand a large file. She looks down on it, frowns and turns to the agent. "Is this a joke?" She asked irritated. "Mam; I swear I quintuple checked it all. And it's all accurate...somehow."
Hand looked over the file incredulously. "This is his rap sheet? Snack evasion? Bingo fraud? Woodpecker baiting? Pug trafficking? Burglebezzlement? Llamacide? Telling overly long jokes that go on...and...on"... She trails off on that last bit.
"Right, okay. New plan. Take these two away." She points to the Stan and Soos. "I don't care where you lock them up, just as long as it's far away from me. I can't deal with this cartoonish nonsense. I need to deal with, real, serious, adult problems."
The guards looked at her confused, but obeyed. "Llamicide?" Asked Agent Shaw confused as he takes Stan away. "Hey, that llama knew too much!" Shaw looked at him incredulously. "I'll...take your word on that, sir"...What else could he say?
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Ward was being overwhelmed and beatdown by a dozen guards...everything...everything was going dark-
FWOOM!
GAH!
Ward looked up just int time to see most of the guards badly burnt, quickly he's lifted up by Sky. "You should really look up the word "boring" in a dictionary." She said as Wendy finished off the remaining guards-
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-You don't put someone like her on ice!" Ranted Garett in the control room with Phil, May, Simmons, and Dipper listening in. "She had Skye shot in the stomach, In the stomach! Because she was curious. Mike Peterson burned alive and turned into some kind of freak. She tortured you, using the same machine she used to brainwash that bitch in the flower dress-
-Wait, I never said Raina had been inside the machine." Interrupted Phil suddenly. "I never told that to anybody."
Garret frowned. "I must have read it in a report, then. The point is, how many more have to suffer before Vic gets hers?"
Phil wasn't really listening, his mind was racing. "You weren't with us... You showed up right after- After Skye was shot... Quinn said it was so I would lead the Clairvoyant to the cure...And that's exactly what I did...I walked you right in there with me."
You could hear a pin drop. Garrett chuckled playfully. "Phil look. It's been a rough day. I-I get it. But you need to take a second and...He trails off when he sees that no one buying it. He sighs. "Dawm it-
ZAP!
GAH!
Garret went down like a sack of potatoes. Everyone looked at Dipper, Night-Night gun still smoking in his hand. Phil couldn't help it, he had to applaud. Garret groaned. "The irony of this...is not lost on me." He admitted right before he lapsed into unconsciousness...
BOOM!
Suddenly the door was smashed down and out swarmed numerous guards. "Freeze! Don't move! - Hands where we can see them!" "Phil obliged. "Take Agent Garrett into custody! He's the murderer they call the-
CRUNCH!
Phil gaped in disbelief as a golf cart feel from the ceiling a crushed all the soldiers, killing them all instantly. "Or...Okay, never mind." Stated Phil in disbelief. Ward and Sky frantically crawled out of the passengers seats. "Never again!" Snapped Sky at Wendy. An equally frazzled Wendy stumbled out of the drivers seat. "Hey, I got us here in one piece; didn't I?" She retorted dizzily. Hand, who was listening...just put her head in her hands...
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"Wait, so Hand thought Phil was the Clairvoyant and Phil thought Hand was the Clairvoyant...but it was actually Garrett?" Asked a confused Mabel. Dipper could only nod. It had been several hours since everything had been cleared up between Hand and Phil...Yet if anything the activity around here only increased.
Soos just shook his head. "I gotta say...I'm not crazy about the darker and edgier atmosphere they got going on here...I really I think I prefer the lighter and softer Gravity Falls."
"Well, I think we can help you there." Said Agent Hand as she and Phil enter the room. Dipper immediately stood up. "Phil! What's happening!? Is everything alright?" He asked concerned.
Phil sighed. "I'm not going to sugarcoat it...Despite the fact that Captain America foiled HYDRA'S main master plan and killed their leader...Were still in dire straits...The majority of our installations have been overrun by HYDRA...The United Nations has officially disbanded SHEILD and labeled all remnants as terrorists."
Dipper couldn't believe what he was hearing! "So what do we do now?" Asked Dipper. Phil shook his head. 'We' aren't doing anything. I'm sending you guys back to Gravity Falls."
"What!?" Exclaimed Dipper. "You can't do that! Phil, we can't just leave you like this! Not after everything-
ZAP!
GAH!
Everyone screamed(or in Wendy's case slapped him...Dipper really dose have good taste. Thinks Phil to himself later) in outrage at Phil as Dipper feel unconscious. "I know! I know! I'm not proud of it! But we really don't have time! The military will be here to arrest us all any second!"
That was all they needed to hear! Pausing only long enough for Wendy to scoop up Dipper. The Mystery Shack Gang prepared themselves for a long...bittersweet journey home back to Gravity Falls...
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TO BE CONTINUED?
Back to Gravity Falls!...what will be the fallout from this?
The first rule of Review Club...Is that we don't talk about Review Club