The Blade in Gravity Falls

CHAPTER 17: THE SINE OF GIDEON, THE TENT OF TELEPATHY.

"I vacuum the walls now." Abuelita said, pulling a vacuum from who knows where to start vacuuming the walls.

"So you lost the Shack. Look on the bright side, dudes! Now you get to live here with me, Soos! Hey, anyone want to play race cars? They're out of batteries but we can make pretend." Soos spat out two Fruit Loops onto his chest. "Would that be a new low if I ate that? Haha I'm just kidding, I'm totally eating it!" Soos said, grabbing a piece of food off his chest and popping it into his mouth.

"We gotta get the Shack back." Stan deadpanned.

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A few hours earlier.

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In the woods, Techno felt the hairs on the back of his neck stand up. He felt five gazes resting on him, and began playing the dangerous balancing act of being tense enough to leap into action like a condensed spring expanding while not making it obvious he was aware of his watchers.

Techno heard a series of faint slaps off in the distance. 'Huh, might not be Gideon's plan. Sounds like somebody's havin' fun.' Techno grinned to himself about that joke before throwing himself sideways, dodging four bullets. 'scratch that, definitely Gideon's doing.'

Techno was in the bottom of an open valley with scattered logs and rocks ringed by woods up on the hills. Somewhere in the trees, four gunmen with hunting rifles were aiming towards Techno and reloading for their next shot. There was one more (presumed) hunter who, rather than sit up in the trees, charged down into the valley with a shotgun.

Techno had taken cover in a ditch behind a big rock. 'looks like only one is coming down, I'll deal with him first, then run into the trees and start picking the rest of them off.' With a plan set, Techno slipped into a small crevice to wait for his prey.

The shot gunner advanced slowly, checking his corners and using hand signals to communicate with his allies. The snipers knew that Techno hadn't left the divot he had dived into when they first started firing at him. Eventually, the shot gunner entered Techno's ditch and began to slowly clear it. Techno tensed and jumped out, knocking the barrel of the shotgun down. The shot gunner pulled the trigger, shooting pellets into his foot and the kick forced the butt of the shotgun into the shot gunners chin knocking him onto the ground.

Techno pulled out his axe and swung down on the dazed man, cutting into his chest. Much to Techno's surprise, he wasn't covered in blood and guts. Instead, where Techno had pierced seemed to be dust. Techno looked at his foe's face, and noticed his chin and lower mouth had been crushed into a fine powder.

"What the?" Techno gasped, poking the downed foe. After just barely grazing him, the shot gunner's face began to collapse. The shot gunner's skin felt less like flesh and more like clay. Techno noticed that there was a red orb in the shot gunner's chest and picked the orb up. The orb was inscribed with the words: Clay Golem, and some random letters that almost looked like someone at their computer bashed their keyboard: Kirnfh, ovzwvi lu gsv tilfk.

Techno stomped on the clay golems head and dropped the orb. Just as Techno was about to walk away, he noticed the dirt starting to swirl around the orb. Techno acted quickly and destroyed the orb. From the shattered orb rose crimson smoke that curled into a skull before floating away. The clay golem's body lost its cohesiveness, floating off into the air while looking as though an angry purple raisin had snapped its fingers.

The other golems, having lost contact with their leader, started closing in on the trench. Techno lit a piece of TNT and threw it up hill, waiting for it to detonate. When the TNT blew up Techno used the explosion as a distraction to make it into the tree cover.