ASPEN | Stranger Things

Chapter Sixteen | Going Down

"Booby traps," Erica whispered.

There was some more movement and I froze. Oh, no, this is so very not good. "You know what?" Robin begins and storms towards Steve. "Let's just grab that and go."

She takes the tube out of Steve's hands and turned towards the door. Dustin quickly walked over to the panel that could open this thing, tried pressing some buttons; but nothing worked.

"Which one do I press, Erica?" Dustin requested.

"Just press the damn button, nerd." Erica fired back. Robin had put the tube into Erica's My Little Pony's backpack.

"Which one?" Dustin groaned. "I'm pressing the button, okay?"

"Press open door!"

"I'm pressing the open door!" Dustin fights back to the kid. Then, everyone around me begins to argue and I glanced between every one of them.

"Just open the door!" I burst and suddenly, another door shuts behind the door that we were supposed to open.

The box then shakes and everyone screams but me, I tried to steady myself, trying not to fall.

"Oh, shit." I murmured. I realised one thing, we were going down.

"Shit! Shit!" Dustin screamed over the top of the others screaming. I had pressed myself to the wall next to Dustin. My poor, poor ears.

"We're going down! We're going down!" Steve cried out, holding onto some boxes.

"Yeah, no shit, Harrington!" I snapped, looking over at Steve.

Dustin beside me was pressing the open door buttons constantly. "Why don't these buttons work!?"

Erica had walked over to the button panel and begins to press the button, too. "Press the button!" She yelled.

"What do you think I'm doing!?" Dustin screeched.

"Come on, press something!" Steve pleaded to the boy. "Just press the button!" The box then crashes and stops, everyone fell to the floor expect me.

My breathing was uneven and my eyes fixed to the door. My hands were spread out across the wall, trying to get a grip on something, but they can't.

Everyone groans. "My groin!" Steve moaned. "It fell on my groin! Dustin! Get this off of me!" I looked over and saw that Steve was trapped underneath a box. Dustin had walked over and pulled the box off him.

"Is everyone okay?" I asked calmly, my breathing going back to somewhat normal.

"Yeah, I'm great, now I know that Russians can't design elevators!" Steve bursts, standing up.

Robin stands up too. "I think we've clearly established that those buttons don't work," Robin gestured towards the panel box that Steve was now at.

Steve turned to Robin. "They're buttons. They have to do something."

"Yeah, if we had a keycard." I reminded him.

"A what?" Steve turned to me.

"It's an electronic lock." I pointed out. "Same as the loading dock door. If we don't have a keycard, it won't operate meaning-"

"We're stuck in here," Dustin finished the sentence for me and I let out a quick sigh.

"Just so you nerds are aware, I'm supposed to be spending the night at Tina's, and Tina always covers for me." Erica begins. "But if I'm not home for Uncle Jack's birthday party tomorrow and my mum finds out you four are responsible, she's gonna hunt you down, one by one, and slit your throat."