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Chapter 7: They're Coming With Us

(Dipper stands behind the corner of the building with his gun at the ready. He quickly jumps out into the street and points his weapon at a guy with short brown hair, blue shirt, tan pants, baseball cap and holding a news camera.)

Guy: (alarmed) Whoa! Hey! Don't shoot!

Voice: Hey!

(Dipper turns around with his gun still out and finds himself face-to-face with a beautiful woman with long blonde hair, a white button-down shirt, blue jeans and is holding a gun out too. Dipper stares at her in amazement. It was his old companion, Pacifica Northwest.)

Pacifica: (surprised) Dipper? What the hell are you doing here?

Dipper: (surprised) Pacifica?

(The camera guy suddenly tackles Dipper to the ground.)

Pacifica: Jeff, don't!

Jeff: Wait, you know this guy?

Pacifica: Yeah. This is Drake.

(Jeff gets off Dipper.)

Jeff: Oh. Sorry.

(Dipper got back up as Pacifica gave him an amused look.)

Pacifica: So, what's your angle on all this misery? You gonna plunder a few temples? Loot the museum?

Dipper: (smirks) Good to see you too. I suppose you're here for some noble crusade, right?

Pacifica: Actually, we're trailing a fugitive war criminal. Ivan Wexler, you ever heard of him?

Dipper: Ain't that NATO's job?

Pacifica: Well they think that he's dead. Killed in some bombing raid.

Dipper: Oh, and you're here to prove otherwise.

Pacifica: (serious) Yeah, we are. You see, this guy's a real monster, Dipper. We're talking torture, mutilation, mass execution... But now he's plotting something new. But why out here? Why tear apart this city, you know? It doesn't make any sense.

(Dipper just shrugs. Pacifica then gets worried.)

Pacifica: Oh, no. Please tell me you don't have anything to do with this.

Dipper: (chuckles) That's ridiculous...

(Wendy's voice is heard.)

Wendy: There you are!

(She runs up to Dipper and sees Pacifica and Jeff. She draws her gun on them.)

Dipper: Whoa! Wendy, it's all right. They're just journalists.

(She puts her gun down. Pacifica looks at them suspiciously.)

Wendy: Oh, okay. Well, we better get going if we're gonna stay one step ahead of Ivan...

Pacifica: (groans) Aw, man, Dipper!

Dipper: (stern) Hey, now don't jump to conclusions, Pacifica. I just so happen to be after the same thing he is.

Wendy: (laughs) Uh, I'm sorry, am I sensing some history here?

(Pacifica holds out her hand and Wendy shakes it.)

Pacifica: Oh, Pacifica Northwest. Last year's model.

Dipper: (laughs) That's cute.

(Pacifica inspects her equipment with Jeff as Wendy looks at Dipper and laughs. Dipper pulls her aside.)

Dipper: (sarcastically) No. No. I'm glad you find this so funny.

Wendy: (teasingly) Well, it's just I never figured you for the white-bread, picket-fence type.

Dipper: She's a lot tougher than she looks, thank you.

Wendy: (mockingly sad) Oh.

Dipper: (confused) "Oh", what?

Wendy: (teasingly) She broke your heart.

Dipper: Oh, please.

Wendy: She did, didn't she?

Dipper: (smirks) Y'know what? Maybe I broke hers.

Wendy: Oh yes, Casanova. (serious) We should really get moving.

Dipper: Uh, wait. They're coming with us.

Wendy: (baffled) You can't be serious.

Dipper: Yeah, I am. I can't just leave them in the middle of this mess.

Wendy: Dipper, they're only just gonna slow us down and we'll only slow them down. If we get caught-

Dipper: Wendy-

Wendy: If Ivan catches you and me together-

Dipper: I'm not leaving them behind-

Wendy: (stern) You don't always have to play the stupid hero, you know.

(He says nothing else and turns to Pacifica and Jeff.)

Wendy: Dipper. Just dance with the one who brought you, alright?

Dipper: I get it. But they're still coming with us.

(The journalists walk up to them.)

Pacifica: Oh, we don't need saving, Dipper.

Wendy: There you see? They'll be fine.

(They hear a sound from above and see another helicopter in the distance.)

Dipper: You might wanna rethink that.

Wendy: Shit, run!

(The group runs through the street and reaches a square where more soldiers appear.)

Dipper: Look out!

Jeff: Oh, what's next?

(They take cover as the soldiers open fire on them. Dipper and the others return fire.)

Pacifica: You still doing this!?

Dipper: I don't ask for this trouble!

(They clear the area and keep moving forward.)

Wendy: (smiles) Pretty good shot for a journalist.

Pacifica: (smiles) I've had some practice.

Dipper: Just keep moving.

(They go through an archway where a flooded street is in front of them. The water flows downward into a drain on a wall. A ladder that goes up to the building is in the other side.)

Wendy: (annoyed) Great.

Jeff: How are we gonna get across?

Pacifica: The current's too strong to swim.

(Dipper notices two cars stuck in the water. A propane tank is wedged next to one of them. He shoots his gun at the tank blowing it up and letting the car loose. It moves down stream and stops at the wall.)

Wendy: Nice!

Dipper: Well, that'll get us halfway.

(He looks around the side of the street some more and finds another propane tank. He throws it at the other car and shoots it. The car also comes loose and moves to the wall next to the other car.)

Dipper: That'll do it.

Pacifica: Let's go.

(They jump on the cars to cross the street and then climb the ladder. They go through the building and onto another street. Another wave of enemies occupy the area with a machine gun turret on a mount.)

Dipper: Take cover!

Wendy: They're everywhere!

Pacifica: Jeff, get down!

(Dipper makes his way along the side of the street behind cover as the others distract the turret. He gets behind and throws the gunner off. He gets on the gun and takes down the other soldiers attacking his companions.)

Dipper: It's all clear!

(They continue up the street and up to bridge crossing over another street below.)

Jeff: Is it always like this with him?

Pacifica and Wendy: (in unison) Pretty much.

(As they cross the bridge, they hear something below and see people with guns running.)

Pacifica: Down below.

Dipper: Those are resistance fighters.

(The fighters are gunned down by something. Then a large tank drives by under the bridge and around the corner. The group is shocked.)

Dipper: Holy crap.

Jeff: Whoa...

Pacifica: Did you see that?

Wendy: Just c'mon. We have to hurry.

(They cross the bridge and go through more buildings before reaching a courtyard in front of the temple they needed to get to.)

Dipper: We should be safe here.

Jeff: Whoa... cool.

(They get up to the front door with the Cintimanni Stone symbol is above it. Dipper and Wendy and relieved that they finally made it.)

Dipper: (smiles) How 'bout that, huh?

Wendy: (smiles) You brought us right to the doorstep.

Pacifica: (stern) So, I'm guessing it's not just a coincidence that we ended up here?

Dipper: Ah, no. Not exactly.

Pacifica: (rolls her eyes) God, you're an ass. Just what is it you're after, anyway?

(Dipper points to the emblem.)

Dipper: See that symbol up there? It's called the Cintimanni Stone. It's a massive raw sapphire. It's worth millions.

Pacifica: So let me get this straight. You're competing with a psychopathic war criminal for a mythological gemstone?

Jeff: When you put it that way, it does sound pretty stupid.

Dipper: (annoyed) Yeah, thanks for the input, Jeff.

Pacifica: And it's supposedly in this temple?

Dipper: No, the stone itself isn't here. It's in Shambala.

Pacifica: Shambala?

Dipper: Yeah, you know, Shangri-La. Discovered by Marco Polo. This place is supposed to show you how to find it.

(Wendy pulls Dipper's arm.)

Wendy: (impatient) Dipper, can I have a word with you, darling?

(Before she can say anything, they hear the sound of a helicopter again and see it in the sky again.)

Wendy: On second thought, we should probably continue this conversation inside.

Dipper: Good idea.

(They open the door and go in, closing it behind them. The inside of the temple has many sculptures and patterns carved in the walls and pillars. Another set of doors lead into it.)

Dipper: Alright, we should be safe in here for now.

Pacifica: (suspicious) This just doesn't add up, Dipper. Ivan can't be after the money. He doesn't need it. You're missing something.

(Before he can respond, Wendy pulls him away and opens the next door.)

Wendy: We'll figures that out later. C'mon, we haven't got all day. You two stay here.

Dipper: Promise you'll stay put. We'll be right back.

(They enter and the doors close leaving Pacifica and Jeff alone.)

Pacifica: (sighs) Famous last words...

So, Pacifica's now involved again playing Elena Fisher, Nathan Drake's other love interest. And since her cameraman, Jeff is just a minor character, he's not played by anyone. Anyway, we will soon see who's the better partner for Dipper.