Chapter 22: One Small Step

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A few yards from where the shuttle landed they saw a building that was obviously not suppose to be on the moon. It was no bigger than a townhouse, but it looked like something out of a laser tag arena.
Ford led the way. Dipper started to hop in his direction, still coming to terms that he was stepping on the moon. He peared back to Pacifica's face against the window in front of the cockpit. He started to turn around when he was interrupted by the sound of chatter on his comm.
"Shuttle Destiny, our satellites just picked up a mysterious building on the moon you have to aboard the mission. Anyone!" Mission Control signed in.
"Uh, about that..." Dipper started.
"DO NOT ENTER, I REPEAT DON'T... WHOA, WHAT'S GOING ON!" Dipper heard a crash on the other side of the comm.
"Mission Control, do you copy?" Dipper yelled. He heard heavy breathing.
"What the hell was that, I want a reading on that now chhhhhh!" Mission Control fell silent once again. Dipper assumed the gravity anomalies were behind this.
We have to do this and fast! Dipper thought to himself.
"Mission Controls been hit, we have to stop this now!" Dipper said. Pacifica could hear the conversation via the comm. on the shuttle.
"Then it's much more widespread than I thought. let's hurry then," Ford suggested.
They rushed over to see a grand, electronic door in their way.
"It looks like some openy closey device." Mabel inferred.
Ford punched in a few symbols on the key pad beside the door. It began to open when suddenly a strange blue shock wave came across the surface of the moon. The already-low gravity became less than nothing and everyone began to float to the off the ground. "Ahh, Dipper!" Mabel screamed. She grabbed onto Ford who had his glove tightly clutched to the keypad.
Mabel out to Dipper who was floating away. Dipper tried to use his boosters they were out of fuel; probably from saving Pacifica. "Whoa, Mabel!" He screamed.
"Dipper!" Pacifica yelled on the other side of her comm. She knew she needed to help him. She was about to grab her suit when she remembered how she was almost killed. She removed her hand from the suit and teared up.
Dipper! She tried to scream.
Outside the craft, Dipper was floating further and further from the surface.. He was looking around, thinking he could grab onto something, if only he could. He closed his eyes knowing he was about to die. He opened his eyes one more time. He notice a tether just floating next to him; he grabbed it right before it became out of reach. He looked down to see Pacifica gripping onto the tether attached to her belt. She was being weighed down Mabel and Ford. Dipper climbed down, as the anomaly subsided. They all were breathing heavily in their helmets as he hit the ground.
"I thought... I said... to stay in the shuttle." Dipper joked as he caught his breath
"A little thank you for saving my life from impending doom would be nice." Pacifica joked back. They got up and walked into the mysterious building.

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