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"Russian? Can you speak Russian?" Dustin asks her

"Ou-yay are-yay umb-day" Robin says in a different language

"Holy shit!" Dustin says as the boys smile happily at her

"That was Pig Latin, dingus" Robin says

"Idiot" Steve says hitting Dustin's shoulder with the banana peel

"But i can speak Spanish and French and Italian, and i've been in band for 12 years. My ears are little geniuses, trust me" Robin says sitting down at the table

"Uh..." Steve hesitates

"Come on, it's your turn to sling ice cream, my turn to translate. I don't even want credit. I'm just bored" Robin tells him as someone keeps ringing the bell at the front



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"Wait, that last part, just one more time" Robin tells Dustin and he replays it again "Okay, that word. Um... it's pronounced Dly-nna-ya"

"Dly-nna-ya" they repeat

"Which is spelled..." Robin says and her and Dustin swap places and he goes over the board

"The chair. The chair looking thingy" you say to him

With a notepad in your hands you open the window to show Steve serving two customers but he turns to you.

"We've got our first sentence" you say smiling

"Oh, seriously?" he asks turning to you with two ice creams in his hands

"Yeah, the week is long" you say in a Russian accent

"Well that's thrilling" Steve says unamused

"Yeah, but it's better then nothing" you say with a shrug as Steve turns around and hands the ice creams to the customers and when you see who it is

"El are you supposed to be here?" you ask her

"Max and i are having a girls day" El tells you

"Are you supposed to be here?" Max then asks you

You go to say something but stop yourself and shut the window again making Steve laugh.


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"The week is long. The silver cat feeds. When blue meets yellow in the west"

"I mean, it just... it just can't be right" Steve says as he shuts the front of the store

"It's right" Robin tells him

"Honestly, i think it's great news" Dustin says as the four start to walk away

"How is it great news?" Steve asks him "I mean, so much for being American heroes. It's total nonsense"

"It's not nonsense" Dustin tells him

"It doesn't make any sense" you add on

"It's too specific. It's obviously a code" Dustin tells them

"A code?" you ask

"Like a super secret spy code" Dustin says

"That's a total stretch" Steve asks shaking his head

"I don't know, it is?" Robin asks him

"You're buying into this?" Steve asks her

"Listen, just for kicks, let's entertain the possibility that it is a secret Russian transmission. What'd you think they we're gonna say 'Fire the warhead at noon?'" Robin asks them "And my translation is correct. I know that for sure, so... 'The silver cat feeds' Why would anyone talk like that unless they're trying to mask the true meaning of their message?"

"Exactly"

"And why would anyone mask the true meaning of their message unless the massage was somehow sensitive?"

"Exactly"

"So i guess the confirms your suspicion"

"Evil Russians"

"I can't believe i'm about to agree with this strange child, but, yeah, totally evil Russians" Robin says smiling at you

"So how do we crack it?" Dustin asks her

"Well, i guess we translate the rest and hopefully a pattern emerges" Robin tells him

"A pattern. Right, like maybe silver cat is a meeting place?" Dustin asks her

"Or a person"

"Or a weapon"

"It's probably gonna take a super genius to crack it, but-"

"Stevie, what are you doing?" you ask looking at him as he keens down at the mechanical pony ride

"Uh, it's a quarter. I need- Do you have a quarter?" Steve asks them and they dig into their pocket to pull one out

"Sure you're tall enough for that ride?" Robin asks as they walk over to him

"Quarter!" Steve calls out as you throw one to him

Steve then places the quarter into the machine and it starts playing music.

"You need help getting up, little Stevie?" Robin asks him making them chuckle

"Shh! Would you guys just shut up and listen?" Steve tells them

"Wait" you say with your eyes wide listening to the music

"Holy shit! The music" Dustin says taking off his backpack pulling out the tape recorder and starts to play the recording to see it's the same music in the background

"I don't understand" Robin says to them

"It's the same. It's the exact same song on the recording" you tell her

"Maybe they have horses like this in Russia" Robin says

"Indiana Flyer? I don't think so" Steve tells her "This code, it didn't come from Russia. It came from here"










































































































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