steves sister | a stranger things story

Chapter 10

Suddenly Marlow and Dustin heard static buzzing from your Mike's walkie, you could faintly hear Lucas. Marlow couldn't hear him clearly, the radio kept buzzing but Marley could hear that he was panicking. Dustin ran into the bathroom and clearly interrupted something with Mike and Eleven.

"Guys! Its Lucas i think he's in trouble." Dustin exclaimed as Mike and Eleven ran out to where Marley stood holding the walkie talkie.

"You know how he said he was going to find the gate? Well what if he found it."

"What's he saying?" Mike asked.

"I don't know he's way out of range." Dustin sighed.

Marley passed the walkie to Mike who listened for some time then spoke into the walkie.

"Lucas if you can hear us, slow down. We cant understand you."

"Yes i copy! Do you? They know about Eleven! Get out of there! The bad men are coming! ALL of them! Do you hear me? The bad men are coming!" They heard Lucas static voice scream. Of course Dustin heard wrong.

"Mad hen.' Does that mean anything to you. Like a code name or something?"

"The bad men are coming!" Lucas repeated.

"Bad men.." Marlow realised.

"Bad men!" Mike caught on. He dropped the walkie and Marley, Mike and Dustin ran upstairs

"stay here!" He called back to Eleven. They all rushed upstairs and looked out of Mike's living room to see a van.

"You don't think..." Dustin asked looking at Marlow and Mike. Mike ran off to talk to Mrs. Wheeler while Marley and Dustin kept watch.
Suddenly more vans identical to the one parked outside Mike's house came up the road. Dustin shut the curtains and they both ran to Mike who was still talking to Mrs. Wheeler.

"Mike!" Marley says.

"One second!" He sighed.

"MIKE!" Dustin yelled at the top of his lungs getting Mikes attention. "We need to leave. Right now."

Marlow and Dustin ran out the kitchen and made there way to the basement as Mike followed.

"Micheal!" Mrs. Wheeler called.

"If anyone asks I've left the country." Mike said to Mrs. Wheeler leaving her with a confused look.

Marley grabbed her bag and they all ran out to get there bikes, dustin grabbed his headset to keep in contact with Lucas if they needed to.

"Go, go, go, go, go, go, go!" Dustin yelled and Marlow got on her bike and started riding down the pavement.
They were all riding as fast as there legs could take them. Marleys ankle still hurt but she pushed through the pain, and made your way onto the road.

"Oh my god. Oh my god. Oh my god." Dustin exclaimed but he stopped when he heard Lucas's voice.

"Dustin, do you copy?" Lucas asked, Marley could tell he was close because the sound was more clear.

"Yeah Lucas their on us." Dustin responded.

"Where are you?"

"Cornwallis!" Dustin responded.

"Meet me at Elm and Cherry!"

"Copy. Elm and Cherry!" Dustin instructed.
The vans suddenly appeared from far behind them and they all started riding even faster, Eleven clinging on Mike even harder.

"Shit!" Dustin yelled.

"This way!" Marley yelled moving left down a path.

They passed two houses and came to a park.

"Out of the way!" Dustin yelled to the children who were playing.

Then they saw Lucas waiting for them at Elm and Cherry.

"Lucas!" Marley exclaimed as they all stopped to catch there breath.

"Where are they?" Lucas asked.

"I don't know." Mike responded.

"I think we lost them." Dustin said still catching his breath.

Not even a second later three vans appeared far behind you.

"Go, go, go, go!" Mike screamed as they all rode faster down the road on their bikes. The vans were approaching them faster and catching up.

"SHIT!" Marley yelled trying to go even faster.
Then unexpectedly, a fourth van came from around the corner ahead of them and making its way too them all.

The van was heading right at them before it went up in the air. Eleven threw the van into the air and made it land upside down behind them all, blocking the other vans path.
Everyone looked at each other in amazement and began ridding towards the junk yard. When they finally reached the junkyard they all threw there bikes down and stopped to catch there breath.

"Holy shit! Did.. did you see what she did to that van?!" Dustin exclaimed.

"No Dustin we missed it." Mike said sarcastically making Marlow laugh.

"I mean that was-" Dustin started.

"Awesome." Lucas finished. "It was awesome." Lucas walked over to Eleven, who was sat on the ground and clearly tired, and bent down and started talking to her. "Everything I said about you being a traitor and stuff. I was wrong. I'm sorry."

Eleven looked at Lucas and began to speak too.

"Friends... friends don't lie. I'm sorry too." Eleven and Lucas smiled at each other before Mike started talking.

"I'm sorry too." Mike said and held out his hand for Lucas to shake, except this time Lucas shook it.

They all sat down on the ground and Lucas grabbed three nearby sticks and found an empty coke can. He laid the sticks down on the floor making them all connect. Then he started to explain what his compass had led him too.
He started running his fingers down one of the large sticks.

"This is Randolph Road, right here. The fence starts here and goes all the way around. And this-" He picked up the coke can and put it in the middle of the sticks. "Is the lab right here. The gate's gotta be in there somewhere. Its gotta be."

"Well who owns Hawkins Lab?" Dustin asked.

"The sign says 'Department of Energy'." Lucas answered.

"Its really means government, military." Marley adds.

"Then why does it say energy?" Dustin asked.

"Just trust us all right? Its military my dad's told me before." Mike explained.

"Their right. There's soldiers out front." Lucas added.

"Do they make like lightbulbs or something?" Dustin asked making Marlow sigh.

"No weapons. To fight the Russians and commies and stuff." Mike answered. They all looked at each other then Marley realised, Eleven was their weapon.

Dustin then realised. "Oh Jesus this is bad."

"Really bad. The place is like a fortress." Lucas admitted.

"What should we do." Dustin asked.

"I don't know but we cant go home." Marley replied.

"We're fugitives now." Mike finished.

Behind them, they could hear the sound of a helicopter that was heading there way.

Marlow was the first to speak. "Um guys... do you hear that?"

They all jumped up grabbed there bikes and shoved them under a broken down bus behind the. Then they all ran inside and themselves onto the floor of the bus.

Dustin finally spoke. "Mental."