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Chapter 13: Sanctuary?

(Dipper and Pacifica move through a doorway at the dock and through a path into the jungle towards the monastery. They get to a stone staircase in between the trees and Pacifica runs up it. Dipper tries to keep up.)

Dipper: Would you slow down? One of Gideon's goons could be up ahead.

(They get to the top of the stairs and go further into the trees.)

Pacifica: Come on, we left those clowns in the dust ages ag- OH MY GOD!

(She stops dead in her tracks and is stunned as she comes face to face with a dead pirate impaled on a spike trap like the ones Dipper was earlier. Dipper was surprised too and he observed the trap closely.)

Pacifica: That's disgusting! Oh, I wish I had my camera. So... what? The Spanish booby-trapped the island to protect their gold?

Dipper: (suspicious) This wasn't made by the Spanish. Take a closer look at the spikes.

(Pacifica looks closer and sees the spikes are made of red and silver metal shards.)

Pacifica: (perplexed) You have got to be kidding me.

Dipper: This is from our plane.

Pacifica: Wait, that doesn't make any sense, though. Why would anyone set traps like this when their own men are crawling all over the island?

(Dipper spots some weird human-like footprints on the ground.)

Dipper: They wouldn't. Something's been here since the trap was sprung.

Pacifica: Something or someone? Wait, do you think that -

Dipper: (whispering) Shh! Do you hear that?

Pacifica: (whispering) Hear what?

Dipper: Nothing... absolutely nothing. (pulls out his gun) We're being watched.

Pacifica: (frightened) Watched?

Dipper: Yeah, you know what, it's probably nothing. Um... Let's just get out of here before we run into whatever's been chewing on this guy.

Pacifica: Okay…

(The two press on down the path and come to a clearing with stone pillars. A pair of mercenaries patrol the area. They're not Gideon's henchmen but the agents'. They spot Dipper and Pacifica and aim their guns at them with lasers.)

Dipper: Keep your head down! These guys have laser sights!

(Dipper and Pacifica take cover behind the pillars and take down the mercenaries.)

Dipper: Powers and Trigger can't be too far off if they left their attack dogs at the gate.

(They leave the clearing and take a path up a hill. They stop at the top where two pillars are mounted on the sides. An entrance to the monastery is across another clearing. They hide behind the pillars as two more mercenaries enter the area. They eavesdrop on them as one talks through a radio.)

Mercenary #1: Go ahead.

Trigger: (through the radio) Secure the perimeter. Don't let Drake and Northwest get to Pines.

Mercenary #1: Yes sir. (to the other) They've got the old man working in the library on the east side of the complex. I don't even know

Mercenary #2: Why did they even bring him along? That sonofabitch can't be trusted!

(Dipper and Pacifica quickly ambush and take out the mercenaries. They go through the entrance and enter a courtyard with a fountain and surrounded by two-story buildings.)

Pacifica: (nervous) Dipper, I've got a bad feeling about this place.

Dipper: Yeah, me too. Let's just find Stan and get the hell out of here.

(The two then encounter more thugs who break their way in.)

Mercenary: Now!

(Another shootout happens and the duo move along the side of the courtyard with their heads down. They manage to get all the enemies as they move between cover. Dipper climbs up a pillar and gets on the second floor. He drops down into an opening behind a building and opens the door for Pacifica.)

Pacifica: Nice job!

(They get to a gate and Dipper tries turn the hoist to lift it but it falls down.)

Pacifica: Here, I'll hold that while you brace the gate open.

(She turns the hoist as Dipper gets underneath the door.)

Pacifica: You ready?

Dipper: Okay, let it go... gently.

(Pacifica releases the lever and Dipper catches the door.)

Dipper: (grunts) Ahhhh, I said gently…

(Pacifica heads through and Dipper rolls underneath as the gate closes. They enter a bigger courtyard with a fountain and even bigger and taller buildings alongside it. They realize they've entered the center of the monastery and look around. They see a big church on one side and a big library-like building on the other.)

Pacifica: That must be the library over there.

Dipper: But we're not gonna waltz right in the front door. Let's find another way in, scope things out.

(They go to the side of the building and up some stairs. They find an opening in the wall and go in. They overhear men talking inside and get down. They look down on the lower floor and see Stan at a table going through old books with a few mercenaries guarding him.)

Stan: (cheerfully) She worked in this little bar in the Philippines... Oh man, she had a smile that'd melt your heart. But oh, I swear to God, she'd just as soon kill you as kiss you if she caught you steppin' out. Just a wee bit of a thing. She couldn't of been more than four-eleven. They called here a "spinner" because she -

Mercenary #1: (annoyed) Will you shut up, old man? You told us that one a dozen times already.

Stan: Oh yeah, right. 'Course I did. Memory's not what it used to be.

Mercenary #2: What the hell's taking you so long anyway?

Stan: Well, maybe you hadn't noticed, but most of these books are half-rotten, and written in Spanish.

Mercenary #1: Yeah well, hurry it up. The boss is waiting on you.

(The second mercenary spots Dipper and Pacifica.)

Mercenary #2: Hey! Up there!

Dipper: Ah, crap!

(The two engage in a fire fight with the mercenaries. Stan takes cover behind the table.)

Dipper: Stan, just stay down!

(They move around on the upper floor shooting down at their enemies. When the area is clear, they get down and approach Stan ready to question him.)

Stan: (relieved) Ah, man. It's about time you showed up.

Dipper: (suspicious) Well, you're looking awfully good for a corpse.

Stan: So, you brought the girl after all, huh?

Pacifica: (slightly offended) "The girl"?

Dipper: Hey, if it wasn't for her, you wouldn't be getting rescued right now.

Pacifica: If this is a rescue.

Stan: (confused) What the hell does that mean?

Dipper: Listen, Stan, I'm not saying you're not the kind of guy who'd double cross their friends, but you gotta admit, this all looks a little shady. I mean first with you tipping those guys off…

Pacifica: And then miraculously showing up alive.

Stan: (irritated) Now wait a goddamn minute. Powers had a contract out on me. I needed to buy some time and assure them I'd pay his debts. Alright, stupid mistake. I didn't realize they'd try and track us.

Dipper: Stan, we would have been headed home with the treasure by now if you had just for once kept your mouth shut.

Stan: And you might've thought of checking for a pulse before running off and leaving me for dead. But look, none of that matters now.

Pacifica: Alright, so if you're not with them, how is it you're standing here breathing and all, huh?

Stan: (chuckles) That you're are not gonna believe.

(He holds up Francis Drake's diary with a bullet hole in it. Dipper remembers how he gave it to him just before they were captured in the Amazon.)

Dipper: (amazed) No way... Ol' Francis took a bullet for you!?

Stan: Yeah.

Dipper: I thought this kinda thing only happened in the movies.

Stan: Yeah, well, it still hurt like a sonofabitch, I'll tell you that. Anyway, once they realized I wasn't dead, I convinced Powers and Trigger that they'd never find the treasure without me. So I've been trying to mislead them ever since, waiting for you to show up.

Pacifica: Well, where are they now?

Stan: Well, they're chasing a little red herring I sent 'em on, on the other side of the monastery, to get rid of 'em. I knew they could never stop you. Especially since they hired that little weasel Gideon, of all people, to take you down before they got here.

Dipper: Well, Stan, I guess you haven't let us down here.

(Stan opens the diary to a page with a drawing of a heart with two keys sticking out of it.)

Stan: Look, Drake had it all figured out. See, that's the symbol the Spanish used to mark their secret vaults. The treasure is hidden right here in this monastery. Find the symbol…

Dipper and Stan: ... and we find the vault.

Stan: We have everything we need right here. All the clues to take us right to the treasure. We can do this, kid.

(Pacifica steps in between them, wrapping her arms around them.)

Pacifica: (smirking) Alright, you boys aren't gonna get all chummy and leave the girl behind again, are you?

Dipper: Don't even think about it, Stan. She's got a mean right hook.

Stan: I'll keep that in mind.

(Dipper picks up the diary and begins to figure out how to find the vault.)

Stan: There's more to this room than meets the eye, I'm sure of it.

(Dipper notices the four statues in the middle of the room around a big picture of a compass on the floor.)

Dipper: (curious) Hm... something about these statues…

(He finds a page in the diary with the same statues. There's a human, a lion, a horse and a bird, all with angel wings. They're labeled on a compass drawing. Dipper gets up on one of the statue platforms and turns the base of it, seeing that they move.)

Dipper: Okay, I think I know what we need to do here.

Stan: Alright, just make it quick. We don't have much time 'till they realize something's wrong.

(Dipper turns all the statues in the direction they're supposed to face by using the compass on the floor and solves the puzzle. A part of the wall opens up.)

Dipper: Bingo!

Pacifica: Whoa…

(The three of them head over to the secret entrance and down some stairs. They enter a smaller room with more bookcases.)

Stan: Oh, another library?

Pacifica: Huh. What now?

(Dipper spots two statues of torches on the wall.)

Dipper: Y'know, this looks familiar.

(He opens the diary to a page with a picture of a torch hanging upside down.)

Dipper: (reading) "The inverted torch leads to the land of the dead."

(He goes up to the torch statues and turns both of them downward. The wall in between them moves down revealing another hidden passage. They look into it and see stairs that go down into the ground.)

Dipper: Well, this looks promising. Here, let me see that.

(Stan hands Dipper a flashlight and he shines it into the passage.)

Dipper: Okay, you two sit tight. I'm gonna check things out.

Pacifica: Whoa, whoa, wait. No, you're not going out there alone.

Stan: Yeah, Powers' men are swarming all over this place.

Dipper: Yeah, and one person will make a lot less noise than three. C'mon, I'll be fine. And you guys will be safe here. They don't even know about this room.

Stan: Okay, take this with you. (gives him a handheld radio) Leave it on channel 13, they don't use that one. And keep us posted.

Dipper: Alright, you got it. Close this thing back up.

Stan: Yeah.

Pacifica: (concerned) Dipper, be careful.

Nathan Drake: (smiling) C'mon, I always am.

(He turns around and hits his head on the top of the entrance.)

Nathan Drake: Ow! I did not see that.

(Pacifica rolls her eyes as he goes in and the entrance closes behind him.)