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Chapter 14: Tunnel Vision
(Dipper moves from the flat car to tanker. He climbs around and gets on a box car. He runs on the roof and jumps to another box car and then a passenger car. A few soldiers patrol it and he quickly takes them out. Then he gets on another flat car and then on another passenger car. He tries to open the door at the end but it's locked from the other side.)
Dipper: Damn it. Have to find another way.
(He climbs some crates in the car and through an opening in the roof. He stands on the roof just as the train exits the tunnel and starts moving along the cliffside of snowy mountains. He sees some more passenger and flat cars before him with several soldiers on them. Among them is Ivan's lieutenant who has the Phurba dagger. He sees Dipper and points in his direction.)
Lieutenant: After him!
(The men around him begin to make their way towards Dipper with assault rifles and shotguns.)
Dipper: Here they come…
(He engages in a gunfight with them as he moves through a couple more passenger cars. When the guards are down, he gets onto a flat car and sees two more flat cars before him as well as many more train cars after them.)
Dipper: (annoyed) Agh! This train goes forever!
(As he runs across the car, the lieutenant stands at the end of a passenger car up ahead and sees him coming.)
Lieutenant: Take him out!
(A large trooper with heavy armor and a chain gun gets on a pile of wooden logs on a flat car in front of the lieutenant. He opens fire in Dipper's direction.)
Dipper: Oh, no, not one of those mutants!
(Dipper gets to the next flat car where a pair of trucks rest. He gets in the back of a truck and uses it for cover. As the trooper shoots at him, he notices some large straps holding the logs on the car. He peeks out from cover and shoots at the straps. They come undone and the logs roll off the train and off the cliff, taking the trooper with them.)
Dipper: See ya, asshole!
(The lieutenant takes out a radio.)
Lieutenant: Send in the gunship.
(He runs into the passenger car as the helicopter appears from over the mountain. It faces Dipper.)
Dipper: (agitated) Oh, shit. Not you again.
(He runs along the flat cars and into the passenger car as the copter shoots its machine gun.)
Dipper: I hate helicopters!
(He exits the passenger car and onto another flat car where a tank sits.)
Dipper: How the hell am I supposed to take out a hel-o?
(He finds an anti-aircraft machine gun turret mounted on the tank. He brightens up and gets in the controller seat.)
Dipper: (excited) Time to fight fire with fire!
(He swings the turret to face the copter and opens fire. They engage in a big shootout with heavy weapons. The copter shoots missiles.)
Dipper: Oh, that's not good!
(Dipper destroys the missiles and keeps unloading on the copter, determined to bring it down. The copter tries to evade his fire and get a good shot at him but can't. Soon it starts smoking and then catches fire. It spins out of control and crashes into the side of the mountain. The wreckage falls on the cliffside and explodes.)
Dipper: Enjoy the ride down, asshole!
(Dipper gets out of the turret and keeps moving.)
Dipper: Wendy can't be too far ahead.
(More soldiers sent by the lieutenant appear in the next passenger car.)
Dipper: (irritated) Ugh, I'm so tired of this guy!
(He takes out the soldiers and goes through the car. He jumps to the next passenger car where the lieutenant himself stands in his path.)
Lieutenant: Enough! You won't get past me!
Dipper: No? I'll just go through you!
(The two of them take cover behind the seats and shoot in each other's direction. They slowly get closer as they move up into the car and duck behind cover until they get up close and personal. They engage in a fistfight where the lieutenant tries to hit Dipper but Dipper agilely dodges his attacks and strikes back. Eventually he defeats he lieutenant and knocks him down to the ground. The lieutenant lies still as Dipper bends down and pulls the dagger out of his jacket.)
Dipper: This is mine, jerkweed...
(He stands up and puts it in his own pocket. Then he faces the front of the train and prepare to keep moving again.)
Dipper: Alright…
(Suddenly, the lieutenant gets back up as Dipper's back is turned. He grabs hold of him and pushes him against the side of the car. Dipper struggles to break free as the lieutenant tries to strangle him. Suddenly, the lieutenant is shot in the head and drops to the floor, dead. Dipper sees Wendy near the end of the car with a gun. He approaches her.)
Dipper: (smirks) Saved my ass again. Are you all right?
Wendy: (stern) Get off the train, Dipper.
Dipper: (confused) What are you talking about? D'you have any idea what I've been through?
Wendy: I never asked for any of your stupid heroics.
(She turns and starts walking away.)
Dipper: Wendy, come on, we don't have time for this.
Wendy: You're right. So get off the train while you still can.
Dipper: And leave you with them?
Wendy: You made your choice.
Dipper: (frustrated) What did you expect me to do?
Wendy: (upset) I expected you to have my back!
Dipper: I did have your back!
Wendy: How could you with the others on yours?!
(Dipper turns around and starts walking away.)
Dipper: Well, good luck with them, then! Y'know, I can't believe that you -
(Suddenly, there's a gunshot and Dipper stumbles. He clutches his side and sees blood. He winces in pain.)
Wendy: (scared) No...
(Rumble steps forward from behind Wendy with his gun aimed at Dipper.)
Rumble: (grinning evilly) You just don't know when to quit, do you?
(Dipper says nothing and keeps backing away.)
Rumble: What? No witty remark? Nothing clever to say?
(He fires at him again but Wendy pushes his arm away and causes him to miss.)
Wendy: No! Rumble, don't!
(Dipper runs back through the train car. Rumble keep shooting at him.)
Rumble: Oh, no, you don't!
(Wendy steps in front of him.)
Wendy: Stop! Just let him go!
(Rumble just pushes her to the floor and turns to a group of soldiers that entered the car behind him.)
Rumble: Put him out of his misery!
(The soldiers run past him and chase after Dipper. Dipper staggers back to the previous passenger car and collapses onto a seat, groaning in pain. He takes out his gun and waits for the soldiers. Then he sees a pile of propane tanks in a corner at the front of the car. As the soldiers get closer, he aims his gun at the tanks.)
Dipper: (weakly) Here goes nothin'...
(As the soldiers enter the car, he shoots and the tanks explode, killing them. The car decouples from train and then derails. It rolls off the tracks and down the cliff dragging all the cars behind it down with it. Dipper is thrown against the wall and knocked unconscious as the part of the train slides down the side of the mountain.)
And so we've reached the point where the beginning takes place and now we know how Dipper got himself into this disaster. Let's just see where he goes from here.