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Chapter 6: Desperate Times

(Dipper and Wendy head down the street and hide behind some pillars in front of an open area with a small open temple. Several soldiers occupy the area with a parked truck. Dipper sees there's no chance to sneak past them.)

Dipper: (skeptical) I don't like these odds.

Wendy: No?

Dipper: No, I think maybe we should cut over to the hotel a different way. Just avoid this crew altogether. (sees Wendy holding a grenade) I'm sorry, do you have a plan to go along with that grenade?

Wendy: (confident) Yes I do. I'm gonna circle round this way, break up their little party.

(Dipper sees a guy with an RPG in the back of the truck and points at him.)

Dipper: Aren't you forgetting about somebody?

Wendy: Well, that's were you come in, sweetheart. I need you to take care of him. But, ah, do it quietly.

Dipper: Do it quietly...

Wendy: Yeah.

Dipper: Are you sure about this?

Wendy: "Desperate times", right?

(She sneaks off towards the temple.)

Dipper: (confused) What does that mean?

(He sneaks off towards the truck. He silently climbs into the back and knocks out the RPG guy. Wendy comes around from the back of the temple.)

Wendy: Here it comes!

(She tosses the grenade as the soldiers heard her. The grenade takes out some of them and distracts the others. Dipper picks up the RPG and blasts more soldiers away. They proceed to shoot down the remaining ones in the temple.)

Wendy: Oh, crap. Reinforcements!

(Dipper sees another truck pull up next to the temple. A few more soldiers get out and a turret on the back opens fire.)

Dipper: How many soldiers did Ivan hire!?

(As Wendy draws the attention of the soldiers, Dipper quickly goes behind the temple and gets in the back of the truck. He knocks out the guy on the turret and gets on. He shoots down the remaining soldiers on the street. It gets quiet once again.)

Dipper: I think that's the last of 'em.

(They head down the street and turn into an alley where the hotel is.)

Wendy: Well, this is the hotel. Now we gotta find a way up.

(They find a fire escape. Dipper gets down and Wendy climbs on his back. He boosts her up. She drops the ladder down for him and the go up the stairs until there's a dead end.)

Wendy: There's no way in from here.

(Dipper sees street signs next to the escape. He jumps to them.)

Wendy: Very resourceful.

(He climbs up the signs and onto a ledge on the building. Wendy follows him. They enter the hotel through an open window and move through a wide hallway with an elevator. The elevator door suddenly opens and two soldiers come out. One has an assault rifle, the other has body armor, a helmet and a shotgun.)

Dipper: Oh, crap.

(Dipper and Wendy take cover behind some columns and engage in another shootout. After putting the soldiers down, the duo enter the elevator and go up. When they're almost at the top, it suddenly stops with a rough jerk.)

Wendy: (annoyed) Well, that was unpleasant.

Dipper: They must've hit a generator. Gimme a hand.

(They tries to pry open the door. Dipper gets in between it when it's slightly ajar.)

Dipper: (struggling) Just a little more...

Wendy: Dipper, move!

(She pushes him out as the door snaps shut, separating them. Dipper tries to open it again to no avail.)

Dipper: It's no good. I'm gonna have to fix the power to get you out. You gonna be okay?

Wendy: Yeah... Just wish I'd brought something to read.

(He looks at an emergency map of the elevator on the wall.)

Dipper: Looks like the circuit breaker's on the top floor. Just sit tight, I'll take care of it.

(He runs down the hallway.)

Dipper: (irritated, mutters) Great, the power's out, and a girl's trapped. I swear to God, if there's a zombie around the next corner...

(He gets to the end where there's a room with the wall blown away. He goes to the hole and scales the side of the hotel up to the next level. He goes through some rooms and finds more soldiers patrolling the hotel. He sneaks around them and knocks them out before having another shootout with the rest. He gets higher up the building and eventually finds the circuit breaker and an opening to the roof with a ladder. He hears Wendy's voice from the elevator shaft.)

Wendy: Dipper? You haven't forgot about me, have you?

Dipper: Found it.

(He activates the circuit breaker and the elevator comes up and the door opens. Wendy gets out and rejoins her partner.)

Wendy: (relieved) Oh, thank God.

(Dipper gets down again and Wendy gets on his back. He lifts her up to the ladder.)

Dipper: (teasingly) Up she goes!

Wendy: (amused) Oh, I think you're liking this a bit too much.

(She drops the ladder down and they go up to the roof. They find a deserted area with a pool and a bar. Dipper smirks and gets in the pool, wading around in the shallow water.)

Dipper: (laughs) Hey, check it out... Marco -

Wendy: (annoyed) Really?

Dipper: Come on.

Wendy: No.

Dipper: Marco -

Wendy: (sighs) Polo...

(Wendy just watches him as he gets out.)

Dipper: (laughs) Fish outta water!

Wendy: (shakes head) You are so unprofessional.

(They go to the side of the roof and find a ladder leading up a higher level.)

Wendy: And still more climbing...

Dipper: Yep, that's usually how it goes.

(The duo climbs the ladder and get to the very top of the roof. They now have a clear view of the entire city around them.)

Wendy: Well, here we are.

Dipper: Now we just gotta find the right temple.

(He pulls out binoculars and looks around.)

Wendy: Well, that may be easier said than done.

Dipper: Yeah, tell me about it. Maybe we can- (spots the temple with the symbol) Oh. Bingo. There it is.

(Wendy looks through the binoculars at the temple.)

Wendy: (skeptical) That's the one?

Dipper: (confident) Yeah, it's gotta be.

Wendy: The one in the middle of all the gunfire and explosions?

Dipper: Lucky us.

Wendy: Dipper, that's right where Ivan is camped. I was hoping we'd be headed in the opposite direction.

Dipper: Well, "desperate times", right?

(Some static is heard on Wendy's radio. She turns it on and a soldier's voice is heard.)

Soldier: (through radio) ...Drake has been spotted in sector 18.

Dipper: Aw, crap. Any chance this is sector 19?

Soldier: (through radio) Sweep the city! Find him and take him out!

(They look out and see a pair of helicopters patrolling above areas in the distance.)

Dipper: Son of a bitch...

Wendy: Right. Time to go.

(They find a long wire leading down to a shorter building. They used their pistols to zip line down the wire. They find a bridge connecting buildings that was missing its middle part. Dipper sees a long wooden beam going across and pulls himself up to it.)

Wendy: Be careful...

(Suddenly, a helicopter with a mounted machine gun and rocket launchers emerges from the buildings in front of them and comes face to face with Dipper.)

Dipper: (alarmed) Holy shit!

(The copter opens fire and breaks the beam and remaining parts of the bridge. Dipper falls and grabs the side of the building Wendy is on.)

Wendy: I've got you!

Dipper: Just go!

(He pulls himself up and the two take off jumping along the balconies of the building and drop down on the roof of a smaller one. The copter follows shooting in their direction. The get to a hole in the roof.)

Dipper: Down here!

(They drop down into a hallway and run through. Outside, the copter shoots a missile at the building and blows a hole in the wall, knocking Dipper down. He quickly rolls away from the hole as the copter shoots its machine gun at him.)

Wendy: You okay!?

Dipper: Never better...

(They keep running down the hallway and get to an elevator next to a staircase. Some more soldiers come out of the elevator and another shootout occurs. Because the copter's fire shakes the building, the soldiers lose their concentration and Dipper and Wendy easily take them down.)

Wendy: Not the elevator.

Dipper: Good point.

(They go down the stairs into a large office. More soldiers show up and the copter blows another hole in the wall. Dipper and Wendy take cover behind some desks.)

Dipper: What the hell are they doing!?

Wendy: This isn't good...

(The copter keeps firing and the building keeps shaking. Furniture and tools start flying around the room. The soldiers lose their balance and fall down. The building starts to collapse.)

Wendy: Whoa!

Dipper: We're going down!

(When the copter is out of range, they make a break for the hole in the wall. As the building collapses, Wendy grabs onto Dipper and they jump out of the hole and through the window of the next building. They roll on the floor as the building they just escaped from tumbles to the ground taking the soldiers with it. It soon gets quiet again as the duo help each other up and catch their breath.)

Dipper: (panting, relieved) Haha... We-we were almost in that...

Wendy: (smirks) Guess we caught this hotel in the down season, huh?

Dipper: Haha, come on.

(They move through the building they're now in and get to the roof. The find a narrow metal bridge connecting to the next building.)

Dipper: A bridge. Sweet.

Wendy: Yeah, tell me about it. The resistance fighters built them to get across the rooftops

Dipper: Lucky for us.

(They encounter more soldiers occupying the next rooftop. One of them shoots a grenade launcher at them. Dipper takes him out first and then the others. Suddenly, the copter appears out of nowhere again and stares down at them.)

Wendy: (frantically) Dipper, look out!

Dipper: (irritated) This guy doesn't give up!

Wendy: Get down!

(Dipper takes cover as the copter opens fire at him again. Then he sees the grenade launcher from the downed soldier and gets an idea. Wendy distracts the copter as Dipper grabs the launcher. He points it up and fires. A grenade hits the side of the copter and it starts to smoke.)

Dipper: (excited) That's what I'm talking about!

(He shoots again and gets more damage on it.)

Wendy: (excited) That's it, Dipper! Just a couple more hits!

(The battle turns in Dipper's favor as he makes himself a hard target for the copter while the copter is an easy target. He shoots the launcher enough that the helicopter catches fire and spins out of control. It descends and disappears behind the buildings. Then a loud crash is heard and explosion is seen. The helicopter is destroyed.)

Dipper: Down she goes!

Wendy: Wahoo!

(Dipper drops the grenade launcher and he and Wendy rest a bit before going to another rooftop and finding a cable that goes down to a shorter building.)

Dipper: That wire. That's our way down.

Wendy: Alright.

(Wendy zip lines down and Dipper follows. She reaches an open window before the cable snaps and Dipper swings down before he can reach the window.)

Dipper: Oh, crap!

(He hits the side of the building and falls into the alley below. Wendy looks down at him.)

Wendy: Are you okay?

Dipper: (groaning) Oh... God that hurts...

Wendy: I'll make my way down.

Dipper: Alright.

(She leaves the window as Dipper gets up and shakes off the pain. He turns the corner and heads to the street. Then he hears voices up ahead and takes his gun out once again.)

The stakes have been raised high in this installment. That was just the first in some major action sequences. A lot's happened so far and there's still 20 chapters left! Plenty more down the line. Next we bring back a familiar face...