Psychic Singularity Ch 21

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The Rainbow Basher inched cautiously through the thick woods.
Technically, they’d made the Basher to withstand anything that could be
thrown at it.

Problem was, one of the things that might be thrown at it in here was
Dipper, and it was his power that helped make the Basher so
impenetrable. Sure, there was way more than just demon power layered on
the car – armor plating and spells from every species the Pines had made
friends with were nothing to sneeze at – but in here, something just
didn’t feel right.

So while normally they would plow through the woods, lights blazing
and speakers blaring, this time they took it inch by inch, with the
humans and one aspect in the cab while the other aspects and nightmares
took the bed of the truck. Vivienne had been in the bed of the truck
along with Childishness and Pettiness, but Horror and the nightmares
inside had insisted upon switching after a few miles, the better to
protect the humans. It went against every nightmare instinct, but it was
what the Master would want, and, if he should come through this whole
and sane, he would help them heal if they were wounded, the nightmares
were sure of it.

But there was something out there. Something that was making the
trees groan and threaten to fall, making them reach out branches like
limbs to slow them. Glimpses of something in the woods, a shadow with
blazing gold eyes, and most of them were starting to have an idea of
what it could be, but were hoping they were wrong. If they didn’t say it
out loud, if they didn’t acknowledge it, then it wasn’t true.

And slowly, piece by piece, dodging ruts that appeared in front of
them and branches that tried to fall on the Basher, they made their way
towards the Shack.

But all of them kept their weapons at the ready, and hoped that this wasn’t something they needed out there.

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