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Chapter 4: The Dig
(Dipper and Stan keep walking along the hose until they get to a ledge.)
Dipper: Think I see the camp up ahead.
(They drop down onto a lower ledge and crouch down behind a log. They see really big wooden tent down below with several soldiers around it. Stan pulls out the detonator.)
Stan: Okay, you ready?
Dipper: Yeah, just a sec.
(Dipper takes out binoculars and looks at the tent. He sees Wendy on the side looking casual. His focus turns to the middle where there's a big table with many documents on it and a large map of the world on the wall. In front of the table is Rumble and a tall, skinny man with black body armor and a shotgun on his a back.)
Man: (frustrated) Three weeks and you have found nothing.
Rumble: (nervous) Now, w-wait a minute, w-we've been-
Soldier: Commander!
(The man turns around and Dipper sees his face. He's bald, pale-skinned, and has a gaunt skeletal face with scars.)
Dipper: That must be Ivan Wexler.
(A soldier with a rifle walks up to the tent with an unarmed soldier. He hands Ivan an old bronze coin.)
Soldier #1: This man was caught stealing artifacts from site five.
Ivan: (laughs sarcastically) You would betray me for this?
Soldier #2: No, boss, I can explain-
Ivan: No, no need. No need...
(Ivan tosses the coin away and then suddenly pulls out a knife and stabs the soldier in the stomach. He gives a death gurgle and falls in the shallow water. Ivan looks around at everyone.)
Ivan: (enraged) I am surrounded by traitors and fools!
(Up on the ledge, Stan holds up the detonator.)
Stan: (smirks) Whaddaya say we really ruin this guy's day?
Dipper: (smirks) Do it.
(Stan activates the detonator and the explosives blow up. The explosion is heard throughout the camp. Everyone around the tent is alerted.)
Ivan: Spread out! Search the perimeter! Move!
(Ivan and his men quickly leave the area with Rumble and Wendy following.)
Stan: Alright, it's all yours, kid. I'll cover you from here.
(Dipper jumps down as Stan moves across the ledge.)
Stan: (through earpiece) Heh. Some fool left a sniper rifle up here. Careful Dipper, they left a few sentries behind.
(Dipper stealthily moves towards the tent knocking the remaining guards unconscious until the place was clear.)
Stan: (through earpiece) Okay kid, it's showtime.
(Dipper enters the tent and begins observing all the documents on the table.)
Dipper: (fascinated) Oh, man. This Ivan isn't screwing around, Stan. You should see all this stuff. He's got files on every expedition to find Shambala. All the way back to the 1600s.
Stan: (through earpiece) What about Marco Polo's journals?
Dipper: (laughs) Here they are.
Stan: (through earpiece) Just hurry it up. You haven't got much time.
Dipper: Yeah. Okay, it says: (reading) "The worthy pilgrim is granted a golden passport to conquer obstacles on his journey to Shambala."
Stan: (through earpiece) That supposed to mean something?
Dipper: Beats me. Hold on, here we go: (reading) "It was with great sorrow that I left my fellow travelers to their fate. A fate decreed by the dreadful cargo we bore from Shambala."
Stan: (through earpiece) They must've thought that tsunami was some kind of divine retribution.
Dipper: Wait a minute... (disappointed) Damn. Bad news, Stan. I don't think the Cintamani Stone is here.
Stan: (through earpiece, shocked) What!? Whaddaya mean?
Dipper: Listen to this: (reading) I would have sooner endured the wrath of Kublai Khan himself than remove the Cintamani Stone from that sacred shrine." Marco Polo never had the Stone!
Stan: (through earpiece) Then what "dreadful cargo" is he talking about?
Dipper: I don't know.
Stan: (through earpiece) Well, if the Stone's not here, then what the hell is Ivan looking for?
(Dipper thinks for a moment then looks up at the world map and sees lots of markings around Asia. He realizes what it means.)
Dipper: Shambala... He's looking for Shambala!
Stan: (through earpiece) Really? Here in Borneo? He's a little wide of the mark, don't ya think?
Dipper: It's not that. He must be trying to pick up Marco Polo's trail all the way back to Shambala because the Stone is still there! Wendy, can you talk?
Wendy: (through earpiece) Hold on... Yeah, I'm here.
Dipper: In all there digging here, have they found any bodies? Any remains at all?
Wendy: (through earpiece) No, now that you mention it, nothing. Why?
Dipper: Over a hundred people were shipwrecked here, yet there's no bodies. Don't you find that a little odd?
Stan: (through earpiece) So where'd they all go?
Dipper: Where would you go if a tsunami hit?
Stan: (realizes, through earpiece) To higher ground.
Dipper: Bingo! We head to that mountain, what do ya bet we find Marco's pals? Wendy, can you meet up with us?
Wendy: (through earpiece) Already on my way.
Dipper: (smiles) Great.
Stan: (frantically, through earpiece) Uh oh. Dipper you gotta get out of there!
Dipper: I just need a minute.
Stan: (through earpiece) You don't have a minute!
(Dipper heard voices coming his way. He ducks down behind the tent's wall.)
Dipper: Oh, crap!
Stan: (through earpiece) Stay down, kid. I got you covered.
(Dipper looks to his right and sees a metal box on a crate.)
Dipper: Grenades. Well, that's convenient.
(He takes the grenades out and looks over the wall. A squad of soldiers looks around the camp with their guards up. Dipper sees a generator outside and throws a grenade under it. It explodes and takes out some soldiers. The others are caught off guard and Dipper opens fire at them. Stan shoots down from his position with the sniper rifle.)
Stan: They're coming in on the left!
(The two battle the next wave of enemies.)
Stan: On the right!
(Stan sees where they're coming from as Dipper takes action.)
Stan: They're trying to flank us!
(Their teamwork gives them the upper hand in the fight. Suddenly, a machine gun from a small cabin on a short watchtower on the side of the camp opens fire in Stan's direction.)
Stan: I'm outta ammo! Help me, kid! You gotta take out the tower!
Dipper: I got ya, Stan!
(Dipper sneaks over to the tower and throws a grenade through the window. The cabin blows up and the tower collapses.)
Stan: Ha! Nice one!
(No more enemies show up. They then leave the camp and make their way to the higher leverage of the jungle.)
Dipper: Should be this way.
(Eventually they get to an area with some large carved stones stacked on each other. They find an entrance to man-made cave. They are amazed.)
Dipper: Would you look at that.
Stan: Oh, yeah.
(Wendy then shows up behind them. She too is amazed by the cave.)
Wendy: Hello, what have we here?
Dipper: With any luck, the last resting place of Marco Polo's crew.
Stan: Shall we check it out.
(They enter the cave and find a large hole in ground in the back.)
Dipper: Down this way.
(The three drop down and enter a large area with pillars and walls. Rotting corpses over hundreds of years old lay everywhere.)
Dipper: (amazed) Whoa... looks like we hit the jackpot.
Wendy: (grossed out) Eugh. There must be hundreds of bodies down here.
(Dipper looks closely at the bodies and notices something.)
Dipper: Look at their teeth. They're all black.
Stan: For God's sake, they're all that way.
Dipper: They must've taken refuge here during the tsunami.
Wendy: They must've taken their cargo all the way up here after they were shipwrecked.
(They enter a smaller area behind a wall where some barrels are.)
Dipper: I think I found something in here.
(He picks up a piece of blue rock from a barrel.)
Dipper: More resin. I've seen this before. (picks up a torch stick and places resin in it) Stan give me a light.
(Stan takes out his lighter and lights the torch. It gives a bright blue flame.)
Wendy: Whoa...
Stan: Ooooh...
(Dipper shines the torch on the floor and sees a long trail of stains on the floor.)
Dipper: Wait a minute, this is blood.
Wendy: It's everywhere.
Stan: Looks like a real massacre.
Dipper: Alright, let's follow the blood stains. See where they lead.
(He follows the trail around the cave. Stan and Wendy follow him. They get to a stone wall where the trail stops.)
Stan: Seems to end here.
Dipper: That's odd.
(Dipper sets the torch down and feels the wall. A stone slightly moves.)
Dipper: This moves a little. Stan, help me out.
Stan: (sighs) Oh, here we go again with the pushing.
(They push the wall until the stones fall over.)
Stan: I think I hurt myself.
(They enter another area and the trail of blood continues. They find more bodies lying around.)
Dipper: The trail leads in here.
Stan: Oh, man, more bodies.
Wendy: (disturbed) Oh, my God...
Dipper: Y'know, maybe I'm crazy, but it looks like they all killed each other.
Stan: C'mon, Dipper, you're just getting spooked.
(They reach the end of the cave where a skeleton leans against a wall holding a wooden box. Dipper puts the torch out and inspects the corpse.)
Dipper: What do we have here?
(He slowly takes the box out the skeleton's hands.)
Wendy: Careful...
Dipper: (screams) It's alive!
(Wendy and Stan yelp.)
Dipper: (laughs) Just kidding.
Stan: (annoyed) Dipper, you're gonna give me goddamn heart attack.
(Dipper opens the box and finds a bundle of paper. He unwraps it and it reveals to be an ancient bronze dagger with a triple-sided blade and a Buddhist head on the handle.)
Dipper: (intrigued) Whoa.
Stan: Man, is that an ugly freakin' thing.
Wendy: What is it? Some kind of weapon?
Dipper: No, it's a Phurba. A ritual object from Tibet. It's used to destroy obstacles.
Stan: (confused) Huh?
Dipper: You know, spiritual ones.
Wendy: Oh.
Dipper: (realizes something) Wait a minute, could this be what Marco Polo was talking about?
Stan: Kid, I don't even know what the hell YOU'RE taking about.
Dipper: In his journal, he wrote that the worthy seeker would be given "a golden passport to conquer obstacles on the journey to Shambala".
Wendy: So, what? This is it?
Stan: That's all real interesting, but where exactly is it a passport to?
Wendy: Well, maybe this map would help.
(She holds up the paper that has a map of a landscape and several structures on it with more writings in Latin. Dipper gives Wendy the dagger and takes the map.)
Dipper: (reading) "Between Greater India and the province of Tibet lies a field of exquisitely finished temples, hundreds of gilded spires stretching as far as the eye can see."
Stan: (looks at map) Hold on, I know this place. It's in Nepal.
Dipper: Yeah, except it's not just a field of temples anymore, it's a city.
Wendy: Well, that could make things a little more challenging.
Dipper: Wait, there's more. (reading) "In all these many temples, only one conceals the secret path to Shambala. And that path shall only be revealed to the pilgrim who bares the golden passport."
(They look at the dagger and smile with approval.)
Stan: Alright, nice work, kid.
Wendy: So, what are we waiting for? Let's get out of here.
Stan: (to the skeleton) See ya.
(Wendy puts the dagger away and runs back towards the hole in the cave's ceiling and climbs out.)
Wendy: I'll make sure the coast is clear.
(Dipper and Stan go the hole and climb out. They suddenly hear voices heading towards them.)
Stan: Damn it.
Dipper: C'mon.
(Before they can leave, Wendy runs into the cave entrance with her gun out.)
Wendy: (shouts) Rumble! In here! It's Drake!
Dipper: (confused) What the hell-?
Wendy: Just put your hands up.
(They knew Wendy was still pretending to be against them in the since the bad guys believed she was so they did what she said.)
Stan: You sure know how to pick 'em.
Dipper: Shut up, Stan.
(Rumble enters the cave with some soldiers.)
Rumble: (to Dipper, disgusted) Should've known it was you. (to Stan, amused) And you. Stanley "goddamn" Pines. (to Dipper) You still dragging this tired old sack of shit around?
(Dipper moves toward Rumble but is halted by Stan.)
Stan: Easy, Dipper.
Rumble: That's pretty ballsy for a guy who's spent the last three weeks behind bars.
Dipper: (mockingly) Better than pissing away three weeks in the jungle without a clue.
Rumble: Found the ships though, didn't I?
Dipper: Please, you couldn't find your own ass with both hands.
Stan: And a map.
Wendy: They must've come from down there.
(She points to the hole in the cave before searching Dipper and finds the map on him.)
Wendy: Whoa... Rumble look at this.
Rumble: Speaking of maps.
(She hands it to him and he reads the Latin very slowly due to his poor translating skills.)
Rumble: (reading) "...between... India... and... Tibet... one... temple... will... reveal... a-"
Dipper: (impatient) ...pathway to Shambhala. Geez, Rumble, while we're young.
Rumble: Oh, now, don't be such a bad sport. (to Wendy) Take them to Ivan. (to Dipper, harshly) You're gonna wish you stayed in prison, mate.
Wendy: Move.
(A pair of soldiers hold Dipper and Stan at gunpoint and march them out of the cave. Wendy follows them as Rumble and the other men inspect the cave. When they get near a cliff, Wendy looks behind to make sure they're not seen. Then she whacks one of the soldiers down. The other tries to shoot her as Stan grabs him. The gun goes off and a bullet scraps Wendy's right arm. She shoots the soldier and then the other as he trie to get up. She holds the cut on her arm.)
Wendy: (winces) Ah, shit!
Dipper: (concerned) You all right?
Wendy: Yeah, well, at least it'll help your escape look more believable. (gives Dipper the dagger) I'll try to buy you some time.
Dipper: No, Wendy, you have to come with us.
(Wendy kisses him on the lips.)
Wendy: Just meet me in Nepal. Now run!
(She runs off back into the jungle. Dipper and Stan run along the cliff.)
Stan: (grins) I like her.
Dipper: Yeah, I bet you do.
(They keep moving until they hear the voices of soldiers.)
Stan: They spotted us!
(They move as fast as they can until they turn a corner and come to a dead end on the cliff. They see a river a hundred feet below them.)
Stan: Ah, damn, now what do we do?
Dipper: We jump.
Stan: Whoa. Hold on there, Sundance. You gotta be outta your mind. We'll break our damn necks.
Dipper: Yeah, well if we get caught, Ivan'll break 'em for us.
Stan: (irritated) I'm getting too old for this bullshit!
Dipper: (irritated) Ah, c'mon, now don't you start this again.
Stan: Listen, I don't have your luck. Guys like me got to know when to walk away from the table.
Dipper: Stan, we're gonna get outta this. Okay? We always do.
Stan: Yeah, and when we do, you go meet your girl in Nepal. I'm going somewhere warm.
Dipper: C'mon, are you sure?
Stan: Hey, you can tell me all about it when you get back.
(They heard Rumble's voice and several footsteps not far behind.)
Rumble: There they are!
Stan: Well, shall we?
Dipper: After you, Butch.
Stan: See ya in hell, kid! (jumps) Yeahooo!
Dipper: (jumps) Ho-ho, Craaaap!
(Rumble and his men get to the ledge just as Dipper and Stan disappear in the water below. When they're out of sight, the emerge and swim down the river.)
This is unfortunately the last we see of Stan in this story until the very end since he wants out. The rest takes place in Nepal and the Himalayas with Dipper, Wendy and some others who come later.