Chapter 6
On the Sent
Both Dipper and Adam have rolled on in the golf cart and they have just driven on a dirt path in the Sherwood woods of the falls and see the plant. Both Dipper and Adam install body cameras on each other as well as put on their earpieces to communicate. Dipper and Adam do a little test on both, and Candy receives the current video that the body cameras are getting right on one of her monitors. Audio on both their voices, as well as seeing the dots on both on the current digital map on another of her monitors.
Candy says on her communicator, "Alright I'm picking both of you loud and clear, your free to proceed."
Both approach the gate which is all rusted up; but Dipper and Adam/Shadow Dancer notice that the lock is broken, and the gate is open. Both then walk slightly slowly as they are searching around being cautious for any kinds of traps.
They then enter the main building which looks dilapidated as they see windows are broken or have crack along with some rotten wood and concrete slight cracked in some areas which grow moss and fungus in places. There is metal most places from pipelines, walkways, and silos but there is plenty of rust in them and old chipped paint.
Dipper says, "We better stick together, there's no telling what kind of surprises they have here.
Shadow Dancer says, "Let alone their even here."
Dipper says, "How are we doing Candy."
Candy is in her lab watching both on the monitor.
Candy says, "So far so good, I've detected no foreign presences on radar, except both of you.
Dipper and Shadow Dancer are proceeding to the next section of the plant which has some belts inoperative, and some tacks are shredded. Dipper and Shadow Dancer are looking carefully at every rusted and corrupted pipe, dusty glass tubes, soiled or empty vats. They come to a catwalk and slowly they climb up the stairs. Both are walking so slowly and are constantly observant both then start to drift toward one another in their walk and feel a slight bump. Both jump as they are startled and then Dipper looks at Adam/Shadow.
Dancer with a little frustration and says, "Don't do that."
"I not doing anything, you hear me whistling dixie."
Candy says, "Alright you two, just calm it, we're all really high strung."
Shadow Dancer says, 'If you had to venture this place you would be, this place really gives me the creeps."
Dipper says, "I second that, the sooner we finish our sweep the better."
Candy says, "I might not be with you guys, but one look at that plant makes me want to get a tetanus shot."
Both continue walking the catwalk and they soon come to a room which looks like an old office and see there is a desk that is the only thing that occupies the open room. Dipper he then comes to an area and looks at the table and sees there is a series of laptops.
Dipper walks to it, but then Adam/Shadow Dancer he puts his hands on Dipper's shoulder and says, "Wait, this is all too easy which you know spells trap."
"I know but time is of the essence, so there's not much choice in the matter."
Dipper he first looks under the table, then the wires along with Adam, they even open the hard drives of the computers carefully and Candy monitoring their progress she sees their camera point of view going over the circuit boards slowly and carefully and she detects nothing out of place or bobby traps of any kind.
Both have all clear and Dipper proceeds to the keyboard and handles the mouse, he hooks up a flash drive which has a skull on it, as soon as the password display is up Dipper just types in random numbers and letters and then the computer lets him in. Dipper then takes the flash drive out and then he looks at some of the files and then stop at one set of files, he opens it up.
Dipper, Adam, and Candy see a map of the falls and there is what looks like markers on certain houses.
Dipper clicks on one of the markers and then it gives out a layout of the house. He then sees the demo option and then Dipper clicks it. It then shows two black simulated figurines running two different directions of the home and then breaking into the windows and then dispensing simulated gas. The gas then travels fast inside the home and the red figures inside different areas just drop still. Dipper then looks to the right of the digital map and seems to have a display of data, labeled one and two and to the right of them a set of numbers.
Adam/Shadow Dancer looks at the map and says, "That's a tactical assault plan, what you just clicked on Dipper is the simulation of the operation."
Dipper says, "Right and it looks familiar because this home was one of their last targets, I've remember the location and also seen the date above this one which was two weeks ago."
Adam/Shadow Dancer then points to another home on the map.
"That's the one from "The Log" paper mentions days ago with that teenage Caucasian girl."
Dipper looks to the right and says, "Those numbers to the right what do they mean Candy."
Candy says, "They look like the calculated amount of gas to carry and dispense within each area."
Dipper he looks more at the dates of the files and says, "I can't find a recent file, I see all the past dates and the one from yesterday but nothing for today."
Candy says, "This is a problem indeed, it will be like playing the shell game, are there any confidential files."
Dipper says, "I'll take a look."
But then Shadow Dancer he then hears some sort of whizzing noise, he then looks from behind him which is the direction the sound is coming from and it's just an empty space. Shadow Dancer then puts two fingers from his right hand up to the side of his knight like visor and on the round side he slides the knob clockwise and it changes to thermotic vision, and he sees there is a great deal of a magenta colored substance that is spreading and covering the empty space and is coming straight their direction.
Shadow Dancer then looks at Dipper and says, "We've got to get out of here!"
Dipper says, "But the files."
"There's no time!"
Adam/Shadow Dancer pulls Dipper away from the computer and he directs Dipper in the direction to run. Both Dipper and Adam are constantly running as the magenta gas is starts to come to the area of the computer tech and then the circuit and tech starts to spontaneously combust as the computer and hard drives have overloaded and exploded, and sparks are flying everywhere and soon the sparks then make the gas go on fire and then the gas turns into fire and the fire spreads engulfing the entire vicinity pipes bending and melting , dusty glass bursting, even just specks of dust and rust are just disintegrated from the touch of the flames and heat.
Their both running and then as they both begin to feel the heat of the blaze that is coming their way, suddenly they see a large series of windows; Adam/Shadow Dancer then grips Dipper's hand hard and looks at him and says, "Trust me!"
Dipper says, "I do!"
They both then come near the windows as both Dipper and Shadow Dancer have jumped out of the factory. Both are falling in midair but Shadow Dancer he pulled out one of his arnise sticks there is a small button. He pushes it and on one end point up in the air, it discharges and a nylon rope with grapple travels up in the air but then drops on the roof, slides until it reaches the edge of the roof and then the grapple it hooks on and Dipper grips hard to reaffirms Adam's grasp as both swing in mid air and then swing toward the building's wall and both then put their feet up to cushion the impact of the swing.
As both land vertically on the wall, Adam pushes another button below the first one he pushed and the rope then extends more lowering them both down slowly. Both soon reach the ground and then Adam presses the first button again he disconnects the rope from the arnise stick and both Dipper and Shadow Dancer see the building is in flames and they run away from the area. Once they get far enough away, Candy calls in the fire department on the fire with a voice modulator to hide her voice and remain anonymous. Dipper and Shadow Dancer are in the golf cart, and they soon pull over on the side of the road.
Dipper he then hits both palms on the wheel in frustration.
Dipper says, "Damn, how could I be so stupid, should have seen a mile away was all an elaborate trap."
Shadow Dancer says, "You not alone in that, it's too bad we never finished our investigation of that building."
"I think that was also part of the trap, taking us our and all other existing evidence to cover their tracks, a nice and need job."
"Not really as both of us got out."
"But how could the trap have been triggered we were being as careful as could be."
"With bobby traps Dipper you can never be too careful."
Candy says, "They might have had some sort of sensor device that was placed in the right spot or camouflage, from the pieces of equipment you described to me on the phone yesterday Dipper I don't doubt they have it."
"It doesn't explain how they could have known both Adam and I were coming."
Adam says, "I don't think they did, the trap they sprung was just an emergency measure."
Adam takes a breath to explain.
"Their aiming to make one final spike right, well whenever that happens there's nothing left to do but return to the assigned base. When all operations are done, the soldier/soldiers would clear out and the first thing to do is to destroy any to all evidence that could be damaging."
"But they didn't come back, and their base was destroyed anyways."
"The whole trap was a security protocol measure they always set up, any unknown or foreign presences that enter the vicinity the sensor is triggered."
Candy says, "And the moment that happens a timer goes on which explains the gas dispensing a little late after both of you got into the vicinity."
Dipper says, "But what about the files we saw."
Adam says, "Probably just for maps and record keeping and at the same time part of the trap as the files weren't all encrypted as you easily opened them Dipper."
Dipper slaps himself in the head, "Darn another thing I should have taken into account."
Candy says, "All of us should of Dip, I should have remembered files in the open are one of the oldest cyber traps in the book."
Adam continues and says, "The reason we didn't find a recent file is that they constructed it earlier, memorized the plan and then destroyed it."
Dipper says, "This trap has also unfortunately got all of us back to square one, we have no idea where the heck the Gassers are going to make their final strike."
All of them are silent for a little while, trying to think of what to do next. Both Adam/Shadow Dancer and Dipper get out of the car. Shadow Dancer he takes off his ninja mask just to breathe the fresh air and then he takes out his phone and then goes to his music app and then switches it to a song, the song is the theme to "Laverne and Sherley" and then he just dances to it.
Dipper then looks at him strangely and says, "What the heck are you doing?"
Adam says, "I need a tension breaker and it helps me think so why not."
"Your choice in breaking tension is dancing to an old sitcom theme?"
"What, I like the music and what are you worried about there is no one else out here."
Candy says, "I can see you."
Adam immediately stops but Candy has a little laugh and smiles, "It's ok, I'm not to judge and even I like the show."
Adam then resumes his dancing, Dipper just simply watches Adam dance and then seeing him a thought finally comes to his head.
Dipper says, "I just thought of the next target, quickly everyone go back to the map."
Both take their phones up and it brings up the map of "Gravity Falls" with all the dots.
Dipper then points to one house on and says, "This is the house that I prevented on break in, that one had a family of two kids a mom and dad, what about yours.
Adam/Shadow Dancer says, "This house was my first and it had a family also but one of Native American."
Dipper says, "The house that was invaded days later was a Caucasian teenager and the house we prevented the last strike was a girl of Indian descent."
Adam says, "I can see the victims or would be victims some are different ethnicities but that doesn't indicate a set pattern."
"Because it's not, their each surgical strike."
"I'm not sure I'm following."
Candy says, "Think you can elaborate more Dipper."
Dipper looks at Adam and says, "You said that evil just does it for evil's sake, that's exactly what these gassers are doing, their doing these things just to see that they can."
Dipper then points to the map and continues.
"In each of these targets they were always specific, a family of two, three, four or more, sometimes the single guy and girl, an elderly couple, the teenager or children home alone, all consisted of just a sum of people or just one."
"All within a vicinity and isolated."
Candy says, "I'm still not getting it."
"One other thing they never repeat themselves, they sometimes use the same format with a distinctive difference."
Candy says, "But were still not sure what the final strike will be which you still haven't gotten to."
"I'm already them, it's the slumber party."
Adam snaps his fingers and says, "Yeah, that's one kind of strike they never done before."
Candy says, "But there are always slumber parties that happen on Fridays, there could be dozens of them going on right now."
Dipper says, "And yours is one of them, however if this is going to be the final strike from the Gassers, they want to go out big, so they would be remembered after they leave and I'm thinking the slumber party their going to strike is going to be the one you're going to Candy."
Candy says, "Mine?"
Adam says, "Why not, this party does consist of a big sum of the Gravity Falls High female populace, but also consists of some well known names am I wrong."
Candy says, "No, Wendy and Mabel are going to be there, though Grenda won't as she's on a trip."
Dipper says, "Who's house is you having the party at."
Candy says, "Pacifica Northwest."
Dipper says, "It's twenty-five to where were at and were already almost losing daylight."
Candy says, "I'll act as security for the party just in case they come, but what if your wrong Dipper?"
Dipper says, "You know me Candy, whenever I know something is about to happen it, chances are it will."
Candy says, "Point taken, I'm on my way there now, Candy out."
The communication then shuts down.
Adam says, "Wait before we go, we need the proper music."
Adam then quickly switches to another track on his app and it's the "Miami Vice" theme song.
Dipper says, "Oh, will you be serious."
"I am being serious; this helps speeding the process up."
"You're so weird."
Adam bows and says, "Thank you."
Both get onto the golf cart and then Dipper immediately hits the accelerator and then the after burners on the golf cart light up and they both speed away to their destination just as the sun is going down.
