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Chapter Thirteen | Translation

"Oh," Steve nodded.

"And uh," he then whispers. "We intercepted a secret Russian communication."

"What?" Steve whispered back, clearly not hearing him.

"We intercepted a secret Russian communication." Dustin softly murmurs again.

"Just speak louder," I groan, rolling my eyes.

"We intercepted a secret Russian communication!" Dustin speaks louder, everyone stopped and looked at us for a minute.

"Jeez, shh." Steve hushed us. "Yeah, okay, that's what I thought you said." Everyone stopped looking over at us now. "Wait, what does that mean?"

"It means, Harrington, we could be heroes." I continued. "True American heroes."

"Huh," Steve nodded; finally getting it. "American heroes."

"Just think, you could have all the ladies you want and more." Dustin smiled.

"More?"

"More,"

"I like more," Steve said. "What's the catch?"

"No catch, we just need your help," I speak.

"With what?"

Dustin unzips his bag and brings out a book. A Russian book. "Translation."

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It's been at least half an hour and we've been trying to transition Russian into English. We had shown the tape several times to Steve.

"So what do you think?" Dustin asked.

"It sounded familiar." Steve finished the banana had stuffed.

"What?" I frowned. Since when did Steve know Russian?

"The music," Steve added on. "The music right there at the end."

"Why are you listening to the music, Steve?" Dustin demanded. "Listen to the Russian! We're translating Russian!"

"I'm trying to listen to the Russian, but there's music-" Steve tried but was cut off by Robin who storms in.

"All right, babysitting is over." Robin harshly says. "You need to get in there." She then turned to her whiteboard that we had used. "Hey, my board. That was important data, shitbirds."

We had crossed off all her data to put the Russian alphabet letters on with the English version underneath.

"I guarantee you, what we're doing is way more important than your data," I promised her.

"Yeah?" She walked over to us. "And how do you know these Russians are up to no good anyway?"

Dustin's mouth dropped and looked over at us. "How does she know about the Russians?"

"I don't know," Steve shrugged.

"You told her about the Russians-" Dustin tried to blame Steve.

"It wasn't me!" Steve defended.

"Hello, I can hear you." Robin rolled her eyes. "Actually, I can hear everything. You guys are extremely loud. You think you have evil Russians plotting against our country, on tape, and you're trying to translate, but haven't figured out a single word because you didn't realise Russians use an entirely different alphabet than we do. Sound about right?"

Steve then looked down at the tape and before she could grab it, Dustin snatched it from the table. "Woah, what are you doing?"

"I wanna hear it." Robin said.