Chapter 2
Night Hawks
Both Adam and Dipper meet up at the Aitken Park after they've taken the bus and are walking the sidewalk and Dipper is wearing a reflector vest along with Adam and both wear white joggers clothing Adam neon green and Dipper white. Both are patrol the Footlights Ranch neighborhood, they're now covering.
Adam says, "Man, for once this where I really hope the Gasser show up because my feet are killing me."
Dipper says, "I know I wish I brought one of the golf carts along."
"I honestly hate riding the bus, they make me hurl and it's no vehicle for a ninja."
Dipper looks at Adam curiously from the comment.
"I mean a cool two like us."
Dipper still a little suspicious about Adam's word slip, he takes the comment.
Dipper says, "Actually, it was a good idea you we didn't as the Gasser could hear it."
"Yeah, but we could take these reflectors and joggers clothing off, it's like were practically advertising ourselves to them."
"Yeah, but it's part of night safety and as soon as we spot a Gasser from a distance, we'll immediately take them off, also I how you're wearing something underneath those runners' clothes."
"Don't worry I'm not planning on going streaking."
"Good, speaking of which we should take another little break and do a little equipment check.
"We've done three already."
"Yeah, but you can never be too careful, things can go sideways really fast."
Both they make a stop to a bench to the Kyteler park they just came up to and then they both open their back packs; both take their camcorders out along with cameras and do systems check. Both don't take anything else out despite other things than video and vision equipment, except for Adam which is just a small plastic Jellybean bag.
Dipper has a video camera on along with Adam with his camera in night vision mode on. Both there patrolling the neighborhood and are looking for the Mad Gasser.
Dipper says, "Man, I can't believe were doing this, this goes wrong were going to be the next episode of "Month Line" about to happen and you know they don't forget in a month.
Adam says, "Will you relax, it's too late to turn back now, let alone were not doing anything wrong we're being nightwatchmen and reporters, servants of the community."
Dipper says, "Well it still feels weird."
"Just take a breath and have a jellybean."
Adam gives Dipper one and Dipper puts it in his mouth, but then spits it out on the sidewalk, Dipper looks at him and says, "That one was soy sauce."
Adam looks at him in a surprised look and says, "What oh sorry forgot, here take this one."
Adam gives him a blue one and then Dipper put it in his mouth and says, "Mmmm, blue raspberry, thanks Adam that's what I needed."
Adam says, "Thank god I brought these, always gives me the energy boost."
Adam then takes one Jellybean.
Adam says, "Mmmm, root beer."
Dipper takes a breath and says, "Alright here's the plan, as soon as we spot one or both of them, we'll have at least 40 or 50 secs to set the cameras up for evidence, pick a good open spot."
Adam says, "As for stopping the Gassers."
Dipper he then shows the backpack, and he says, "I have my device of capture."
Dipper then takes out a single soup canister which is labeled "Randall's Soup" "Split Pea and Ham".
Adam says, "I don't think we have time to cook up dinner right now Dipper."
"No, this isn't an ordinary soup can in fact it's a fake, this is actually a sensor perimeter net grenade."
"I'm not sure I understand."
"Well you first hook these up to your computer."
Dipper shows where the outlets of the soup cans are which are at the very bottom rim.
Dipper says, "Once you do, you program them if you have one of them as a mine just set it someplace but first make sure you program it first to set your perimeter range but also the type of personal you want captured as soon as they enter."
Dipper then turns the can to show Adam the top.
Dipper says, "To activate you press the top in the middle there's a concealed button, lob or roll it to the target and out the net goes."
"And once we have them, the cops will be able to haul them away."
"Then that will be the end of the Gasser's hold on the neighborhood."
"If lucky a front-page story as well."
"What about you, you've got something to catch them."
"Just a typical net strong enough to trap a wild animal."
Adam pulls on one of his nets in his backpack a little just to show Dipper and then Dipper nods.
Dipper says, "Alright, just remember the plan and things well go smooth like caramel."
Both then put their things away.
Adam says, "One quick question."
"Yeah."
"You and your sister Mabel, she usually in the stories with you but recently she hasn't been in the latest stories, why?"
"Well, I'm not sure myself, I noticed Mabel drifting from me since eighth grade, she never really said what it was herself, I don't know the only thing she said to me was that she had plans of her own, there were things she wanted to do."
Dipper takes a small breath and continues.
"It's understandable it is teen life after all, but still I missed her when she wasn't with me."
"I know the feeling of missing someone, maybe she'll comeback, may 'be she just needed a break from it all or a needs time for herself."
"And if she doesn't."
"Well, if that's her choice then that's her choice."
"You might be right."
Dipper he then has his finger to his mouth which is the sign for quiet. Adam at first is a bit puzzled by the gesture but then it makes sense to him, and he is immediately silent. Dipper then points his direction and Adam then turns around very slowly and then sees there are across the street what looks like two shadows that are moving, almost spider like as both are barely making a sound. It was hard to make out if the movements are from people as the figures seem to just blend with the shadows as if their one with them. Dipper then signals Adam to follow him.
They follow the two gassers toward a suburban home which looks like any other medium sized, white, with garage on one side and the homestead on the other. Both Gassers they then move to the right of the house. Dipper and Adam are close behind but also distances away, both put their backpacks down and they start to take their reflectors and running clothes off. Dipper is in his usual look only his shorts are black, vest is grey, t shirt black, he puts on his cap which is all grey except for the pine symbol which is black. Dipper see Adam's outfit is completely black and covers his whole body.
Dipper is suspicious about Adam's wardrobe as it seems familiar but has no time to ponder and at least is the appropriate attire for their operation. Both are behind some big bushes which have a medium sized row of small trees. Adam then starts to get the equipment out for set up. Dipper he looks to Adam and then point to him and then points to the ground and then points to himself and then points to the back yard area where he saw the other gasser go. Adam has a small look of concern for him and the whole thing in general but Dipper he then gives Adam two of the soup net canisters for safety and then Dipper gives him a thumbs up signal and then goes off.
Adam shakes his head and immediately gets to work he sets up one video camera carefully in one of the trees, where one of them has a knot hole big enough to store and position it right. He turns on the camera and then has his snapshot camera placed carefully in one of the bushes where the branches are strong enough to hold it level. Adam activates the snap shop where it's programed to shoot multiple photos the moment of activation. Adam then puts on his mask and then activates the ski like visor which has the vision on what is currently happening.
Adam he see the gasser whom looks male, his whole outfit in complete black which just about bends in with the darkness around him, except for that gas mask which is one from a time long gone. Adam can't get over those visor eyes which are a complete circle that is just a pool of blackness. Adam then takes out his cell phone which is on silent vibrate and he dials 911 for the police but then he looks at his phone and sees that the battery is completely dead. Adam is puzzled by this as the battery was full today. He then goes to his secondary emergency phone but then he sees that is also dead too, Adam is once again puzzled on how this is possible.
The Gasser he moves his right hand to his left wrist which has a small wrists gauntlet, he presses a button and then on his pack to his left, a small cylinder it shoots out what looks like some black snoke which covers his body and the area. Adam he is unable to register the presence on his visor and what he doing as the black smoke envelopes the gasser and the area completely.
While Adam struggles to get visual again, the male gasser he takes out some sort of handheld device. He turns it on, and it makes a humming noise. He has it pointed straight toward the window seal. The gasser then has his hand on a dial and then turns it slowly counterclockwise and then the knob on top of it turns until the lock on the window clicks to confirm it's unlocked. The gasser then puts the remote away and then takes out two devices which are small ruler like sticks. He puts them on two sides of the window and then he presses the button.
Meanwhile on the other side, Dipper is also having the same problems as Adam as both his phones don't work and the black smoke is completely disorienting.
The female gasser she is near the sliding glass door she also puts a remote device away. But before she slides the door open, she then takes out another small device which is a tiny aerosol canister, and she puts it near the crack of the sliding door and discharges some sort of black substance that forms up and fills the crack in. She the puts the canister away and then she grasps the door open. The door makes no sound not even a single squeak. The black foam then dissolves into complete nothingness after opening it. She is about to take the first step into the house but suddenly she feels a big impact on her face which makes her fly straight to the ground.
The Gasser quickly recovers as the instrument that hit her hit only the mask, she sees the instrument which the head of a golf putter and it's held by a teenager with a blue, white cap with a Pine symbol.
Dipper says, "There are no break ins on my watch."
Meanwhile, the male gasser is coming inside the girl's room as he was able to successfully slide the window up. The gasser comes into the room and sees it's completely vacant except for all the kinds of things you would normally see from a bed with white sheets, a make up desk and mirror and a white drawer with some decorations on top, walls decorated with music posters, etc. The gasser then is about to advance inside to search for any presences, but then suddenly feels a violent tackle from behind and it's Adam/Shadow Dancer that has just came inside.
Both Adam/Shadow Dancer and the Gasser roll onto the floor for a while around. The gasser can push Shadow Dancer off him and Shadow Dancer crushes to white drawer and one object a music box with a ballerina falls about to hit the ground, but Adam catches it and puts it back on top carefully and breaths a sigh of relief.
He then turns around to face the Gasser and puts his hands up and the gasser slowly stands up, Adam sees he's slightly taller than him, but he's not intimidated, he then attacks by delivering a couple of punches toward the Gasser's face and the Gasser moves his head from a couple of the punches, but it still planted still. Adam, he shakes his hands in pain, realizing he hit the gas mask.
Adam says to himself, "Damn that was a bad idea."
The gasser just stares at him takes a heavy breath which sounds almost like a dog's growl. The gasser takes out a particular deice form behind through Adam/Shadow Dancer doesn't know where and presses a button, it retracts a pole with a steel ball attached. Adam/Shadow Dancer sees the device, and Shadow Dancer says, "What a coincidence I have one of those, too."
From the back of Adam/Shadow Dancer's belt he takes out one arise stick and does a little twirl for a brief warm up. And then both the gasser and Shadow Dancer they cominse attack. Both swing and block each other's strikes furiously while moving in a semi circle, charging, and retreating. But the gasser he executes an overhead strike, Shadow Dancer blocks the strike with a roof block but then quickly whips to the right and hits Shadow Dancer with the baton on the lower left rib which Adam's uniform slightly protects him from to minimize impact, but Adam still feels the hard blow. Then the gasser he ducks down quickly and executes a back handed swing which hit's Adam/Shadow Dancer in the right knee, and this makes Shadow Dancer go down on to the ground.
The Mad Gasser puts his baton weapon away back in his suit despite no pockets and then from a holster on his leg takes out a wand like device attached with a wire to the small gas canisters behind him ready to discharge any presence that comes within his way.
Suddenly someone comes into the room and it's a young teenage girl whom has a deep tan skin tone of Indian decent, black hair which is cropped short and a little damp. Has just a blue robe on and looks terrified at the presence she's seeing; she is just stunned and unable to move as the gasser has the wand device pointed at him. But then suddenly before the Mad Gasser is about to discharge his gas, he suddenly is grabbed in the neck by two legs that have his neck and head in a vice grip. Shadow Dancer he is standing up with his hands and has the Gasser by the grip of his legs, he then flips back down to his legs which creates momentum for him to pull the Gasser down make him hit his head hit the floor.
Adam/Shadow Dancer is on his feet again and the girl sees him a figure in complete black with a mask that has a ski like visor. Shadow Dancer looks to the girl has both the palms of his hands facing her to sign he is no threat.
But then Shadow Dancer is knocked down as he feels a couple of knife hand chops to the back of his knees, the Mad Gasser who is breathing a lot more heavily and aggressively which indicates frustration is then wrestling with Dancer once more on the floor. They both roll and bump into a trunk and then roll another direction hitting a study desk. The Gasser he has Shadow Dancer pined with one arm on his neck which makes Dancer struggle to breath but the right hand which is coming close to Dancer's mask about to unmask Dancer. But just as that hand was about to pull Dancer's mask off suddenly the gasser is struck with a metal instrument in the face and then struck again on the left side of his face and goes down.
The girl she then offers a hand to Dancer who is just catching his normal breathing rate again. Dancer takes it and then looks at the girl seeing she has a metal baseball bat in her hand.
Shadow Dancer says in a alter voice, "My thanks to you citizen."
The girl says, "Least I could do."
Dancer then quickly turns his head back before the Gasser can pull off any more sucker punches he looks and sees the Gasser has already left the room.
Shadow Dancer then sees the girl and once again talks with the slightly altered voice, "You better find a room that is safe, and if your phones work call the police, wait until they arrive."
Girl says, "Wait, how will I know your okay."
"Appreciate your concern miss, you'll hear three blows of this flute."
Adam/Shadow Dancer he shows her a duck sound hunters' flute and then puts it away.
"Once you hear them that means everything is clear; meanwhile, miss suggest you stay safe, and can I use your back door it would be easier to get to my assistant."
The girl she nods her head to indicate yes, he then runs past the girl toward the back door of the house.
Meanwhile Dipper is struggling with the female gasser as she has grasped the putter. Both are struggling on their feet one pushing the other with a putter in between them. The female gasser pulls a fast move on Dipper by executing a jump with both her feet off the ground and then executing a double kick that connects with Dipper's chest.
Dipper he flies and hits the ground, Dipper reels from the hit and then sees the male gasser has joined the female one. Both look at each other just simply breathing deeply and then both nodding to each other and then they both start coign toward Dipper slowly both take out a couple of their baton devices that retracted their poles arming them. Dipper he then is crawling back as behind him there is what looks like a mere Clam Chowder soup that rolled out of his pocket and is now just ten feet away from his grasp. Despite Dippers crawling, he is not fast enough as the legs of both the female and male gasser start to catch up quickly to him.
Both then pull another thing out from their left hand which are the wand devices and have them pointed at Dipper. Dipper from his other pocket then takes out a couple of heavy hand towels and then throws both at the nozzles of the wants which blocks the discharge of the gas. The gassers they then just pull the rags off violently and then continue their advance on Dipper.
The delay didn't work, and Dipper sees he can't get to his canister on time. The gassers were about to discharge the gas but suddenly there are a couple of miniature cylinders that bounce off the shoulders of both. The cylinders drop on the ground, they then make a brief beep and then suddenly a couple of flash bangs are produced. The flashes have disoriented both Gassers, Dipper quickly covers his eyes from the bang. The brief disorientation lasts for a while and then the Gassers get wacked on the visors by something slightly heavy.
Shadow Dancer he is swinging his net which has small weights attached in a counterclockwise motion and is circling the gassers. The male Gasser he then charges toward Adam, but Adam he then swings the net hard, and it connects hitting the head of the Gasser.
The female gasser still is focused on Dipper, but Dipper managed to crawl toward the cannister he placed and then he presses the top button and then just rolls the cannister near the Gasser and then suddenly it explodes with one big net that just pops right out and then just envelopes her completely and it brings her down to the ground.
Adam/Shadow Dancer casts his net at the male gasser it envelops him as he is standing still. But the gasser he then points his wand and then from another button he was able to discharge red smoke from the nozzle. The red gas suddenly has caused some sort of static and interference to display on the visor, Adam is trying to shake it off and keep his focus on the Gasser he just netted but he is unable to fix the static but is also coughing a little from the red gas as it seems to make his throat tickle a little. Same with Dipper as the female gasser also discharged the same red smoke from her wand, Dipper is coughing and covering his eyes which are a little itchy from the smoke.
They both hear some sort of buzzing noise, and it sounds like a series of rope lines have been cut. The smoke soon clears up and Shadow Dancer visor soon turns to normal and then sees that his net is flat on the ground with a long cut slit, same with Dipper's. Both are puzzled as to where the Gassers have gone, they both search around the back yard and front of the house and even look at the house itself incase of reentry but none they can detect.
They both hear some distant sirens, Shadow Dancer says, "I guess our contest with those fiends will continue another day."
Dipper quickly gathers all the camera equipment along with Shadow Dancer. Dancer quickly gathers both nets and Dipper takes another thing out of his backpack which is Tupperware and tongs. He comes to the two hand towels on the ground and carefully pulls both towels up with the tongs and places them inside the Tupperware and seals them.
Shadow Dancer then takes out his Duck Flute, pulls up his mask to where only his mouth shows and blows on it to signal to the girl inside everything is ok.
Shadow Dancer puts the flute away and then says to Dipper, "Ninja vanish!"
Dipper says, "I'm not a ninja."
"Your close enough."
Both run out of sight.
