Hey, everyone! Sorry I didn't post this up sooner. Things kept coming up in the past week and I wasn't able to upload. But don't worry. I will try the best I can to get the last two chapters up tomorrow (especially since there's kind of another cliffhanger at the end of this chapter (Something really big happens at the end)). Anyway, without further ado, here's Chapter Eighteen. Enjoy!:
Eighteen
Thirty seconds later, the ground stopped shaking and Dipper stood before a sixty foot tall rock in the shape of a human.
"I am The Holy One!" roared the monster made of rock. "Where is Dipper Pines?"
Dipper timidly raised his hand.
The Holy One saw that, aimed his right hand at the robot suit, and blasted a ball of energy the size of an SUV.
The attack sent Dipper sliding backwards on his back about fifty feet in the dirt. He groaned, stood up, and gathered his bearings.
Dipper flew upwards towards The Holy One, summoned a purple disc of energy in each hand, and threw them at the rock monster. Then, he summoned two more as he did a flip in the air and threw the discs of energy at his opponent.
The attacks only made little dents in the rock.
Dipper stopped when he was about forty feet away from the rock monster's face.
"My turn," said The Holy One. He stuck out his hand and shot a beam of light at Dipper, who arched his back to avoid the attack.
"Warning!" said Siri. "Forty percent battery left."
"Wonderful," muttered Dipper. He fired two beams of light at the ground and swung them upward to chop off The Holy One's enormous right arm.
Despite there being no blood, The Holy One yelped as his massive rock arm fell to the ground and turned into dirt.
"Wow, this is gonna be easier than I thought," said Dipper.
Then, The Holy One regenerated a new rock arm identical to the one he had lost.
"Spoke too soon! Spoke too soon!" shouted Dipper.
The Holy One made a fist in his newly regenerated arm and swung it at the robot suit.
Dipper flew backwards at a downwards angle and slammed into the ground thirty meters from The Holy One's feet.
"Well, it looks like I need help," Dipper muttered. "Again."
He grunted, stood up, concentrated and made two copies of himself. Both copies had the same numbers on their chest from earlier.
All three Dippers flew towards The Holy One, who had been watching with amusement.
Dipper number two flew behind the rock monster, made two beams of light, and used them to chop of The Holy One's arms.
Number three used two beams of light to chop off the legs of the rock monster. As The Holy One fell, Original Dipper used the same technique the other two copies had used to chop off the giant head made of rock.
All three Dippers landed next to each other in front of the fallen rock monster.
"Do you think we defeated him?" asked Number Two.
The Holy One's head began to regenerate.
"I don't think so," said Dipper #3 as his panic rose.
The Holy One lifted his head, glared at the three Dippers, and blew at them with gale force winds.
All three of them were blown backward and slammed into a nearby mountain.
All three Dippers involuntarily combined into one.
After grabbing his head and quickly gathering his wits, Dipper pushed himself off the mountain and flew towards The Holy One.
"Siri, I can't seem to be able to defeat that thing," said Dipper as he flew. "Can you detect a weak spot?"
After a small silence, Siri replied, "I didn't find a weak spot, but I did find a child in the rock."
"A child?" asked Dipper. "Really? Where?"
Two crosshairs appeared on the glass dome and crossed over the rock monster's chest.
Dipper sighed. "Very well," he said. "I'm going in!"
He accelerated and broke the sound barrier as he punched through the rock chest and came out the other side.
Dipper landed on the ground on top of a boy who looked to be thirteen years old with sandy brown hair, wearing the standard Kids of Eternity uniform, plus a red cape.
The humanoid rock turned into the dirt and fell to the ground.
"So that's how you're gonna play," snarled The Holy One. "Very well, then." He puffed his chest upward and a wall of energy sent Dipper flying backwards about twenty yards.
The Holy One used super speed to run over to the robot suit, toss it into the air, and blast it backwards another twenty yards with a ball of energy.
Immediately after landing, Dipper jumped to his feet and prepared to attack, but The Holy One was quicker.
The leader of the Kids of Eternity was already fifteen feet away and zapped the robot suit with a bolt of lightning and held onto it.
Dipper screamed and arched his back as he was electrocuted.
"Warning! The robot suit is over loading!" said Siri. "Extreme damage is being done!"
Suddenly, the robot suit exploded. Dipper fell onto his hands and knees on the dirt as robot limbs, iPads, iPhones, iPod touches, and scrap metal rained down to the ground.
A few seconds later, The Holy One grabbed Dipper by the neck, lifted him off the ground and squeezed.
"Have any last words, hero," seethed the Holy One. He said the last word with extreme distaste.
Dipper tried to pry off the fingers around his neck, but wasn't strong enough. Already, he was low on air.
No! thought Dipper. Can't—lose—like—this!"
Suddenly, The Holy One's eyes bulged and collapsed.
Dipper was released from the death grip and had fallen to his hands and knees. He took several deep breaths.
He looked up and saw Ronald wearing the robot's left arm and using it to hold a blue, glowing wisp of light identical to the one that had come out of Taylor's body at Northwest Middle, but larger.
Dipper realized what the wisp of light was and paled. "No!" he said. "It- it can't be!"
"Oh, but it is," Ronald said evilly. "Thanks to you, and some careful planning, I have just become the most powerful kid in the world!" He slammed his left hand into his chest.
Well, I hope you figured out what Ronald has. I tried to give you as many hints as possible without telling you what it actually was. Everything will go down and come to an end in chapter nineteen. I hope you look forward to it and liked this chapter. What do you think? Remember: only one more official chapter to go.
~ Jammer14