Time for the heroes and villains to meet once again.

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Chapter 24: The Road to Shambala

Dipper: (aggravated) Son-of-a-bitch!

(He pulls a gun out and runs back to the door as the voices get closer.)

Pacifica: (worried) Now what do we do?

Dipper: Just stay behind me.

(They back up against the wall next to the door. A solider runs in and Dipper grabs him from behind and holds his gun to his head. Pacifica stands behind them.)

Dipper: (stern) Drop the gun! Do it!

(The soldier drops his gun and several more soldiers run in and point their weapons at them.)

Dipper: Stay back.

(The soldiers keep their distance but hold their weapons up. Dipper sees Ivan himself walk into the room. He knows it's been a while since they last met and how much trouble he's given him since.)

Dipper: (frustrated) Ah, shit.

(Ivan walks up to Dipper and glares angrily at him.)

Ivan: I should have killed you myself when I had the chance. Not a mistake I will make twice.

(He points his gun at him. Pacifica walks up beside Dipper and points her gun at Ivan.)

Pacifica: (threateningly) Back off!

Ivan: (tauntingly) Oh, pull the trigger, little one. See how long you live. (to Dipper, sternly) Now, you will open the passage to Shambhala.

Dipper: (bitterly) Go to hell.

(Ivan lowers his gun and smirks.)

Ivan: Are you a student of history, Mr. Drake?

Dipper: I've read a book or two.

Ivan: Hmm... Genghis Khan, Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot... They were all great men. But do you know why they prevailed?

Dipper: I'm sure you're gonna tell us.

Ivan: Because they had the will to do what other men would not.

(He suddenly shoots the soldier in Dipper's hold in the face and he falls to the floor dead. Dipper and Pacifica are shocked.)

Ivan: (serious) Compassion is the enemy. Mercy defeats us. Now, unless you wish to test me still further, you will drop your weapons!

(He points his gun at Dipper again. His men move closer with their guns. Dipper hesitates for a moment and then lowers his gun.)

Dipper: (sighs) Do it.

(Ivan points the gun at Pacifica and they both drop their guns on the floor.)

Ivan: Kick them away.

(They kick the guns across the floor.)

Ivan: So, you have tested my will. Now it is my turn to test yours.

Pacifica: Killing us won't get you anywhere.

Ivan: Killing him, yes. But you...

Dipper: (serious) You hurt her, you'll get nothing from me.

Ivan: Well then it appears we are at a stalemate... Unless I add another pawn to the board. (calls out) Bring her in!

(Rumble marches into the room with Wendy. He's holding holding her arm and pointing his gun against her. She looks agitated. Dipper and Pacifica realize that Ivan finally found out she was conspiring against him.)

Dipper: Shit.

(Ivan tries to grab Wendy but she pulls away and walks over to Dipper's other side.)

Wendy: (irritated) Get your hands off me.

(Ivan laughs and aims his gun back and forth between Pacifica and Wendy.)

Ivan: Now, one we will use as a lesson. And the other we will use as incentive to cooperate. You choose.

Wendy: This is bullshit, Dipper.

Pacifica: Yeah, don't play into his game.

Dipper: (stern) You want my help, you let them go.

Ivan: (enraged) This is not a negotiation! Who would you sacrifice? And who would you save? Want this one? You want to save this one? Or maybe this one? Hmmm?

Dipper: (irritated) Y'know what, enough of this shit. Alright, quit the theatrics. I'll do what you want.

(He goes up to the blue orb in the center of the room and reaches into his pocket. Everyone except Pacifica and Wendy draw guns on him.)

Dipper: (sighs) Calm down.

(He holds up the small box of resin he found in the mountains and waves it at them. He empties the resin into a stone bowl under the orb. He looks at Rumble.)

Dipper: You, asswipe, gimme your lighter.

(Rumble looks over at Ivan who motions at him to do it. Rumble takes out his lighter and throws it over to Dipper. He lights the resin and makes a blue flame. He backs away as the flame illuminates a carving of a tree on the big wall in the back of the room. He walks up to the wall and finds an illuminated triangle-shaped hole under the tree picture. He takes the dagger out and pushes it into the hole. The dagger is pulled into wall and the wall slides into the ground, revealing a wide cavern with a bridge over a deep chasm. Everyone enters the cavern. The soldiers still have their guns trained on Dipper, Pacifica and Wendy.)

Dipper: (amazed) Holy crap...

(They're about to walk across but the elevated bridge suddenly separates into sections and rotates to the side, preventing them from crossing. Ivan turns to Rumble.)

Ivan: (baffled) What is this?

Rumble: (shrugs) How should I know?

Ivan: (strict) Find a way across, and fix it!

(Rumble starts walking towards a ledge on the side, annoyed.)

Ivan: (points to Dipper) And take him with you. Maybe this time it will get done right.

(Rumble sighs and pushes Dipper forward.)

Ivan: Oh, and Mr. Drake...

(Dipper looks back at him.)

Ivan: ...don't try anything clever.

(Rumble takes Dipper to the ledge.)

Rumble: After you.

(He rudely pushes him down onto the ledge and jumps down after him. They start moving along a rocky path along the side of the cavern.)

Dipper: You backstabbing son-of-a-bitch.

Rumble: (smirks) Yeah, well I learned from the best, didn't I? Get a move on. C'mon. You first, darlin'.

Dipper: Yeah, big man with that gun aren't ya?

(He starts following the path as Rumble follows him with his gun trained on him.)

Rumble: Don't go far!

Dipper: Try to keep up!

Rumble: I am keeping up, I'm letting you go first.

(Dipper climbs around a ledge and reaches a high wall.)

Rumble: (tauntingly) Hold on. Wait for me. Daddy's got a gun.

Dipper: (rolls his eyes) I can't believe Ivan hasn't killed you yet.

(Rumble gets to the high wall.)

Rumble: Gimme a boost, buddy.

Dipper: Huh... "buddy".

(Dipper boosts him up to the wall.)

Rumble: There we go. Oh, look out, it's a stone's throw.

(He kicks a large rock down in front of Dipper.)

Dipper: Huh? Hey!

Rumble: Sorry. Is that blocking your path?

Dipper: Glad you find this so funny.

Dipper climbs up the wall using the stone. He sees Rumble jumping across to another platform.

Dipper: No wait for me -!

(Part of the platform breaks off.)

Rumble: Sorry 'bout that.

Dipper: Great.

Rumble: What's wrong mate? Don't you trust me?

(Dipper jumps across to the platform. Rumble grabs him.)

Rumble: See, you should have more faith in me, chum. (pulls him up) There you go, sweetheart. (kicks him forward) Get ahead of me. Go on.

(They get up to a narrow part of the cavern.)

Rumble: You better not be leading me into a dead end.

Dipper: It's through here.

(Dipper squeezes through a crack in the wall.)

Rumble: I don't think you're gonna get your stomach through there.

(Rumble follows him and they find a large boulder blocking their path.)

Dipper: Help me move this.

Rumble: Aye aye.

(They get the boulder loose and push it down into the water below.)

Rumble: Okay, teamwork. Just like the good old days, eh?

(They drop down another platform where a big cart is just sitting there.)

Rumble: Now how did they get that cart there?

Dipper: Who cares? We just have to get up high.

Rumble: It's like Stonehenge, isn't it?

Dipper: (sigh) No. Help me push this.

(They push the cart forward and climb up to a ledge above them.)

Rumble: C'mon, girlie girl. There you go.

(They scale over some demon-like statues on a wall.)

Dipper: (jokingly) Statue of your mom.

(They jump across to another platform and see a big demon statue on the wall next to it.)

Rumble: Oh, look, it's a life-size statue of your ego.

Dipper: (mutters) That was a sorry excuse of a comeback.

(Dipper jumps across to another ledge.)

Dipper: Hope you can make that jump on your own 'cause I'm sure as hell am not gonna help you.

Rumble: If you can do it, I can. (jumps across) Little help, little help. Never mind. Just kidding.

(They finally reach the back of the cavern where there's a staircase and a large door.)

Dipper: Alright, let's open it up.

(They push the doors open and enter a big room with an even bigger door.) One each side of the room is three cells with a symbol on them.)

Rumble: Y'know what they say, behind a door... is another door.

Dipper: Okay...

Rumble: So what do you have to do? What do we have to do?

Dipper: Just wait here. As usual, I'll take care of everything.

Rumble: Would you?

(Dipper sees three huge metal cylinders with Tibetan symbols on them on either side of the room.)

Dipper: Wait...

Rumble: What?

Dipper: Those symbols... I know those symbols...

(He opens his journal and finds a page with same symbols in some sort of order. He gets up to the platform with the cylinders and starts rotating them.)

Rumble: Such a little book, such big cylinders.

(Dipper carefully rotates the cylinders to match the correct symbols in the journal.)

Rumble: (impatient) As the world turns, so does my boredom. Could you hurry up?

Dipper: Hold on, I'm trying to concentrate.

(He finishes matching the symbols on one side and goes across the room to proceed with the other side.)

Rumble: Come on, mate, we haven't got all day. Wouldn't want to piss off Ivan now, would we?

Dipper: (irritated) Do me a favor, Rumble, shoot my ears off. Please.

(He matches the correct symbols on the other side and a circular platform with wooden bars sticking out rises out of the floor in the middle of the room.)

Dipper: That should do it.

Rumble: What's that, just came out of the floor?

Dipper: C'mon, make yourself useful.

(They push the bars and rotate the platform.)

Rumble: Agh, what are we grinding wheat? What is this?

(The platform stops moving and sinks back into the ground.)

Dipper: Ah, there we go.

Rumble: Sounds like water.

(They look up at the statue of a giant head on the wall. Water flows out of its mouth. In the cavern outside, the water rushes into the cavern below the platforms. The platforms rotate again and the bridge is put back together. Suddenly, all three yetis from before appear from the walls and drop down into the room.)

Dipper: (shocked) Oh, crap!

Rumble: (frightened) What the hell are those things?

(The yetis roar and prepare to attack.)

Dipper: Rumble, I'm gonna need a gun!

Rumble: No way!

Dipper: No time to argue!

Rumble: Son-of-a - alright! Here!

(He pulls out a spare gun and throws it over to Dipper.)

Dipper: Thank you!

(The two of them dodge the attacks from the yetis and shoot at them as they come near. The yetis back off when shot at but don't go down. Eventually, one of the yetis charges at Dipper, lifts him up and slams him on the ground knocking the gun from his hands. Another yeti corners Rumble who keeps shooting. The yeti pining Dipper down is shot in the back by a shotgun blast and falls dead on top of him. The one attacking Rumble is also killed by a shot. Ivan walks into the room with his men behind him. He holds up his double-barrel shotgun and shoots the third and final yeti as it charges at him. It falls dead as Dipper gets out from under the first yeti's corpse. He sees all three of them dead.)

Dipper: (confused) How did he kill them with one shot? He load that thing with silver or something?

(He then sees the gun he dropped and reaches for it. Ivan sees him and points his shotgun at him.)

Ivan: Ah-ah-ah-ah. Hold him.

(Two soldiers grab hold of Dipper. Rumble walks up to one of the dead yetis.)

Rumble: What the hell are these things?

(Ivan kneels down beside the body and reaches under its face. He pulls it off and revels the face of mutated human with purple skin. He laughs menacingly. Dipper is even more confused.)

Dipper: What?

Ivan: Scarecrows... Guardians to frighten trespassers.

Rumble: (frustrated, kicks the body) Yeah, well, it's bloody effective.

Dipper: Are we just gonna gloss over what it looks like on the inside? This thing is not human!

Rumble: Shut up!

(Dipper sees more soldiers enter the room with Wendy and Pacifica. He forgets about the yetis and turns to Ivan.)

Dipper: (firmly) Ivan, I've done what you asked. Let them go.

Ivan: (smirks) Always bargaining... But you have played your last hand, and lost.

(Rumble points his gun at Dipper.)

Rumble: (grins evilly) Looks like it's the end of the road, mate.

Ivan: No, no, no, no, not yet. I want him to see Shambhala... and die knowing that I have taken it from him. (calls out) Open the gate!

(Two soldiers go up to the large door and turn a wheel on both sides to open it. Everyone goes up to the door as it slowly opens. A bright light shines in front of them as they step through. Before them is the marvelous sight of Shambala, a huge city of ancient structures and exotic plants under a beautiful skyline of mountains. They walk out onto a walkway completely amazed by the sight. Before them is a long bridge leading to a large temple looming over smaller buildings. They all stare out in the distance until Ivan breaks the silence.)

Ivan: Now... (turns to Dipper, enraged) You have been a thorn in my side for far too long.

(His men line up Dipper, Pacifica and Wendy next to each other. Ivan takes a gun out.)

Ivan: On your knees.

Rumble: Hey, hey, uh, Ivan, we had a deal.

Ivan: I do not suffer traitors.

Rumble: Oh, right, so I suppose you know exactly how to find the Stone, then… won't be needing me...

(Ivan sighs and walks up to Wendy. He pushes her over to Rumble who grabs her from behind.)

Rumble: (smiles) Thanks.

(Ivan glares at Pacifica and Dipper.)

Ivan: On your knees!

(Soldiers from behind try to force them down on their knees. They try to resist. Suddenly an arrow hits one of the soldiers in the back and he falls down dead.)

Ivan: (shocked) What is this!?

(They turn and see a bunch of muscular, human-like purple mutants jump out of the trees with crossbows and shoot arrows down at them.)

Ivan: Fire, you fools!

(The soldiers open fire on the guardians. Some of them get hit by arrows. The guardians are hit by bullets but aren't affected much.)

Dipper: Oh, shit.

(As Rumble is stunned by all of this, Wendy elbows him in the face and he lets go of her.)

Rumble: Son-of-a -

(Pacifica punches the soldier holding her and she breaks loose. Dipper sees them and runs off with them.)

Wendy: Run!

Dipper: Go!

(Ivan and his men keep shooting at the guardians who shoot back.)

Ivan: Onto the bridge!

(As the battle occurs, Dipper, Pacifica and Wendy jump off the walkway and run away into the city.)

Finally made it to Shambala. Problem is it's inhabited by purple mutants on steroids. What becomes of this now?