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Chapter 23: Reunion
(Several soldiers open fire on Dipper and Pacifica in the big room. They duo takes cover and returns fire. They move around the room taking cover behind old furniture laying around and taking out any soldiers they see. After clearing the first floor, they run up the stairs and walkways and fight their way through the second floor. They clear out the walkway and go into the rooms on the second floor to clear them out. Soon, they clear out the whole tower of enemies.)
Dipper: Okay, let's get up there and check it out.
(They get to the third floor and open the door to the room where they find Quentin lying injured against the wall.)
Pacifica: (worried) Oh no...
(They run over and kneel down beside him. He opens his eyes and looks at them weakly.)
Pacifica: It's okay. We're here.
Quentin: (to Dipper) You were right...
Dipper: About what?
Quentin: Everything you touch does turn to shit... (coughs)
Dipper: Alright, but that doesn't matter now. C'mon, we're gonna get you out of here.
Quentin: No... it's too late for me...
Pacifica: What do we do?
Quentin: Did you find my expedition?
Dipper: Yes, I found them.
Quentin: You understand what I had to do?
Dipper: Yes.
Quentin: If they had found the Stone... it would have changed the course of history... (coughs)
Pacifica: Easy...
Quentin: He took the dagger...
Dipper: I know.
Quentin: He's gone to the highest tower... you have to stop him...
Pacifica: Try not to move.
Quentin: (serious) Listen carefully... this monastery hides the secret path to Shambhala... You must get the dagger back... find the secret path ...and destroy the Stone before he gets his hands on it... (takes Dipper's hand) Drake... you have to believe...
(Quentin Trembley closes his eyes and breathes his last.)
Dipper: Quentin...
Pacifica: (gloomily) Oh, Dipper...
(Dipper sighs places Quentin's hand on a medallion around his neck.)
Pacifica: We can't just leave him...
Dipper: (sorrowful) What choice do we have? You heard him.
(They stand up.)
Pacifica: Do you think all this really could be true?
Dipper: I don't know. But he believed it. That's enough for me.
(They walk out of the room and close the door, letting him rest in peace.)
Dipper: Okay -
Pacifica: I think we should split up.
Dipper: What?
Pacifica: Yeah, I'll go scope out the secret entrance thing and you go to the tower and figure out how to get that dagger back.
Dipper: Alright, good plan. It'll get things done a lot quicker. Just keep your head down and stay in radio contact.
Pacifica: Okay.
Pacifica walks off down the stairs walks off.
Dipper: Good luck.
Pacifica: You too.
(She leaves the area and Dipper goes across the walkway to a large hole in the wall. He looks out and sees the highest tower in the distance.)
Dipper: Okay, there's the tower.
(He jumps across the rooftops of the monastery and reaches large a courtyard where a small dead tree sits on a podium with stairs near a cliff. In the courtyard below I front of the tree, a large group of soldiers are in the middle of a gunfight.)
Dipper: (confused) What the hell are they shooting at?
(He peaks around the roof he's on and sees a pair of the yeti creatures from the mountains brutally killing some soldiers on the other side of the courtyard.)
Dipper: (disturbed) Oh, shit, not those things again.
(The yetis jump up to a rooftop and disappear behind the buildings. The remaining soldiers are left shaken.)
Soldier #1: What the hell was that!?
Soldier #2: I don't know!
(Dipper ambushes them from the roof. He eliminates the soldiers in the area and drops down to the ground. As he crosses the courtyard, he takes cover behind a barricade as he sees the two yetis jump between rooftops in the distance.)
Dipper: Those things are bad news.
(He's about to keep moving until a third yeti follows the other two.)
Dipper: (surprised) Whoa... there's another one of them.
(When they're gone, he keeps moving and finds a door in the wall. He opens it and enters another area. He hides behind a broken wall and sees more soldiers in a smaller courtyard below. Two troopers in body armor and helmets and carrying chain guns patrol the area. Dipper knows he can't just attack them head on so he stays hidden and throws a grenade at one of them which catches him off guard and causes him to drop his gun. Dipper quickly drops down and picks up the chain gun. He blasts away at the two troopers and other soldiers in the area. When it's clear, he drops the chain gun and climbs through an open window. He makes his way through a building when Pacifica speaks to him through his radio.)
Pacifica: (through radio, nervous) Dipper... There's something strange going on over here. There's some sort of... demon Sasquatch animals.
Dipper: (sheepishly) Yeah... I probably should have warned you about them.
Pacifica: (through radio, baffled) Warned me? Wait, you knew about these things? When were you planning on telling me?
Dipper: I encountered them in the mountains with Soos. I didn't know they'd be here too. Just lay low and stay out of their way.
(He gets back onto the rooftops. After jumping across some more, he slowly walks along a ledge. A few dozen yards below him, a large group of soldiers frantically run down a path.)
Soldier #1: They need reinforcements! Send backup!
Dipper: (whispering) Quiet, Dipper. Quiet.
Soldier #2: Oh, God! They're all dead!
Soldier #3: Those things tore them apart!
Soldier #4: They went that way!
Soldier #5: What the hell are those things!
(He moves along the ledge and scales the rooftops some more. Then he reaches the wall of the highest tower where Ivan was said to be.)
Dipper: (relieved) Finally, the tower.
(He catches his breath for a second and climbs up the wall. He enters a large hole in the roof and steps on a wide wooden beam. As he slowly walks into the tower, he hears voices down below. He hides behind a pillar connected to the beam and looks down in the room. He sees Ivan holding the Phurba dagger and speaking with Rumble. Wendy stands nearby looking nervous.)
Ivan: (frustrated) I'm tired of your excuses.
Rumble: (nervous) Look, give me some more time, that's all I'm asking.
Ivan: (laughs sarcastically) I have given you enough time. I have brought you the dagger. Now... where is the gate to Shambhala?
Rumble: Look, Ivan, we know -
(Ivan grabs Rumble and pushes him up against a pillar. He holds the dagger in his face.)
Ivan: (threateningly) I have not come this far to be thwarted by your incompetence.
Rumble: (trembling) We know the answer is somewhere in this room. We just have to find it.
Ivan: Meanwhile, Drake remains just one step behind you.
(Ivan stabs the dagger into the pillar beside Rumble's head. Rumble winces.)
Ivan: I clearly hired the wrong man for the job.
(Ivan storms out of the room. Rumble calms down pulls the dagger out of the pillar. Wendy looks a little shaken up.)
Wendy: What an asshole.
Rumble: I'll, uh... I'll try to smooth things over with him. Just stay here and see what you can work out.
(He gives her the dagger and walks out of the room. Wendy starts pacing and looks around the room.)
Wendy: Okay, think Wendy, think...
(Dipper sees that getting the dagger back is now much easier. He drops down on the floor behind Wendy. She hears him and pauses.)
Dipper: (firmly) I believe that belongs to me.
(She turns and sees him.)
Wendy: (skeptical) Dipper? Get out of here.
Dipper: Give me the dagger.
Wendy: They'll be here any minute -
Dipper: Wendy, don't make me take it from you.
(He reaches for the dagger but she pulls it away.)
Wendy: How am I supposed to explain where it's gone?
Dipper: You'll think of something. You always do.
(He grabs her arm with the dagger. She stops resisting and looks at him sorrowfully.)
Wendy: You're not gonna stop, are you? (sighs) Fine. I'm just so tired of this so I'll give it to you. (serious) Just... Just do one thing for me. Take that son-of-a-bitch down.
Dipper: (smirks) Sure thing.
(She gives him the dagger and walks out of the room. Now alone, Dipper looks around.)
Dipper: Alright... what am I looking for? Wait a minute... this all looks familiar.
(He sees some large carved pictures of animals on the walls. A phoenix, a tiger, a dragon, and a griffin. He opens his journal to a page with the same animal pictures. They're all in different colors. He sees shapes on the same page the same colors as the pictures. He finds metal geometric shapes like the ones in the journal along the wall.)
Dipper: I bet I could move these things.
(He picks up one of the shapes and places it on a floor tile in front of the wall carvings it matches up with. The tile sinks into the ground.)
Dipper: Huh. Alright. What's next?
(He carries another heavy shape over to the corresponding floor tile.)
Dipper: (grunts) Where's Stan when you need him?
(He repeats the process for the third and fourth shape.)
Dipper: Alright, that should do it!
(A section of the wall slides open underneath each painting, revealing a revolving cylinder with Tibetan symbols on it.)
Dipper: (annoyed) Ah, shit. More? Okay, I've seen these symbols before...
(He opens the journal again and sees symbols on the same page as the pictures that are the same colors as them. He rotates each cylinder and matches each symbol that corresponds with the shapes on the floor tiles. A small, circular platform rises out of the ground in the middle of the room.)
Dipper: Whoa.
(He sees a triangle-shaped hole in the middle of the platform.)
Dipper: Three-sided, just like the dagger.
(He inserts the dagger into the hole and a doorway opens in the wall.)
Dipper: Well, well, well, what have we here?
(He goes through the opening and gets back onto the roof and has a clear view of a cliffside with some large Buddhist statues. Several of Ivan's men inspect the statues. Dipper takes out his binoculars and scans the cliff. He spots another circular platform buried in the snow near the cliff's ledge.)
Dipper: (laughs) Gotcha.
(He switches on his radio.)
Dipper: Paz, you read me?
Pacifica: (through radio) Yeah.
Dipper: I got the dagger back and I think I just found the secret entrance.
Pacifica: (through radio, intrigued) Really?
Dipper: Yeah, you see the base of the cliff with all the statues?
Pacifica: (through radio) Uh huh...
Dipper: Meet me there.
Pacifica: (through radio) You got it! I'm on my way.
(Dipper uses his gun to zip line down a rope to another building. He climbs up to the rooftop and jumps across to reach the cliffside. He drops down and crouches down behind a barrier. He sees the soldiers trying to drag a big statue to the ground. He speaks into his radio again.)
Dipper: Paz, you there?
Pacifica: (through radio) Yeah... I'm over here, I can see you.
(He sees her arm wave out from behind a crate on the other side of the cliffside.)
Dipper: What the hell are those guys doin'?
Pacifica: (through radio) Looks like they're pulling the statues down to try to find that secret entrance.
Dipper: Yeah, well, the geniuses are right on top of it.
(He takes out his gun.)
Dipper: Well... here goes nothing.
(He starts silently eliminating the soldiers in the area until he's spotted. He engages them in combat. As they focus on Dipper, Pacifica ambushes them from behind. When the area is clear, the two meet up.)
Pacifica: Wait, so... where's the secret entrance?
Dipper: It's right here. This is it.
(They go over to the platform in the ground. Dipper inserts the dagger in the triangular hole and the platform rises up.)
Pacifica: Whoa.
Dipper: Haha... I knew it.
(Four wooden bars come out of the platform.)
Dipper: Here, help me push.
Pacifica: Okay.
(They push the bars and the platform rotates.)
Pacifica: (effort) Put your back into it.
Dipper: (effort) Nag, nag, nag.
(The platform stops rotating and water starts pouring out of an opening in the rocks above the cliffside. They out into the monastery and see the water flowing through a pair of channels. The water gets to the courtyard Dipper was in earlier with the tree on the staircase. The water reaches the end of the channels on either side of the tree. The staircase slides down opening an underground passage. They are amazed.)
Pacifica: (gasp) Dipper...
Dipper: Well, wouldya look at that. (chuckles) Hidden right in plain sight.
Pacifica: Come on... this way!
(They find a rope leading down to the monastery and zip line down on it. They go over a small area where more soldiers are fighting the yetis.)
Pacifica: Oh!
Dipper: Whoa!
(They land on the balcony of a building and watch the fight.)
Pacifica: You see that?
Dipper: Well, at least it's keeping them busy.
(The yetis defeat the soldiers and climb out of sight again. Dipper and Pacifica leave the area and get to the big courtyard.)
Dipper: Alright, it's all clear. Come on.
(They enter the secret passage beneath the tree and enter a wide tunnel with stone carved walls.)
Dipper: We're getting close, I know it.
(They reach a large door and open it. They enter a wide round room where the statue of a large blue org sits on a stone bowl in the middle of the room. A light shines down from the ceiling on it.)
Dipper: (excited) Here it is Pacifica. The secret entrance to Shambhala.
Pacifica: (skeptical) Dipper?
Dipper: Yeah.
Pacifica: Don't see it.
Dipper: Neither do I.
Pacifica: (sigh) If I have to climb another wall...
Dipper: Keep looking around. There has to be a clue somewhere.
Pacifica: Are you sure this is it?
Dipper: It has to be. We're missing something.
(He finds some objects that look like the dagger on the walls. Some of them are facing downward, some upward. Remembering that he inserted the dagger down into slots before, he turns the objects downward if they weren't already. The hands holding the blue orb over the bowl slightly rise up.)
Dipper: That's it.
Pacifica: What?
Dipper: Watch.
(He approaches the orb and reaches into his pocket. Suddenly, they hear voices from outside.)